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As the city's most impoverished borough, the Bronx has seen its deep-rooted problems exacerbated by the pandemic. It currently ranks as the state's unhealthiest county, with heart disease and obesity afflicting many in the borough. While the Bronx's unemployment rate stood at 4% in December 2019, it has soared as high as 24% during the pandemic, leaving scores of Bronx residents jobless.
But it doesn't mean all of the Bronx's successes have been obliterated. Construction of new residences remains strong across the borough, though other large-scale projects—including the construction of four Metro-North stations along an existing Amtrak line and the Kingsbridge National Ice Center—remain in limbo for at least five years.