To the editors:
The Bronx may be dying. The numbers of housing violations, eviction filings, large fires, medical emergencies, all-cause deaths per population, premature deaths per population, and drug-deaths per population rose tremendously since 2005, the first year in the Fire Department’s open access database. I began my study of other factors in other NYC governmental open-access databases with year 2005.
A partial building collapse in the Bronx on Monday afternoon resulted in no deaths or serious injuries after firefighters combed the rubble for hours looking