Caroline Lewis appears in the following:
Low-level drug arrests surge in the South Bronx, according to new data
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Between January and the end of June, police made more than 800 drug arrests in the 40th Precinct, which covers The Hub. That's more than double the number of arrests in the first half...
The Latest on COVID Shots
Wednesday, September 03, 2025
Caroline Lewis, health care reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, talks about the availability of COVID vaccines this fall and how the FDA's changes are resulting in different access acros...
The Ongoing Legionnaires' Outbreak
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Caroline Lewis, health care reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, and Joe Hong, investigative data reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, talk about the ongoing Legionnaires' outbreak in Central...
MTA banned alcohol ads 7 years ago, citing health concerns. Now it wants the money.
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Ads will now be allowed in a variety of formats across the system, including on billboards, digital displays and wrapped around the shuttle train between Times Square and Grand Centra...
A Bushwick woman’s recovery from drug addiction starts on TikTok
Monday, July 14, 2025
Addiction specialists said finding community, even online, is crucial to success.
NYC hatches new 'clubhouses' for people with serious mental illness
Tuesday, July 01, 2025
It’s one of about a dozen clubhouses for people with serious mental illnesses that are opening or expanding across the five boroughs, aided by millions of dollars in new funding from ...
Hitting the pavement in Harlem with one of NYC’s street psychiatrists
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Fried, whom Gothamist shadowed on a recent morning, is embedded with multiple organizations’ outreach teams, in addition to serving as the medical director of the Manhattan Outreach C...
A NYC program trades cash for used needles. It’s paying out thousands of dollars.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
In this area, used needles are easy to come by. Zyre Howard, who’s staying at a nearby homeless shelter, turned in 55 during a “buy back” Monday and got $10, the maximum amount one ca...
‘Soul crushing’: What’s at stake for defunded NYC researchers and their projects?
Monday, May 12, 2025
A cloud of uncertainty now hangs over the research projects that were disrupted and the researchers themselves. Academics who discussed their work with Gothamist said they worried abo...
‘Shrinking my world really small’: How New Yorkers are coping with long COVID
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
Five years after the pandemic first struck New York and the nation, Alisha is one of potentially hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers — researchers are unclear exactly how many there ...
How far apart should legal weed stores be in NYC? Retailers demand clarity
Tuesday, March 04, 2025
Under the latest proposed regulations the state Office of Cannabis Management will consider exceptions to the distance rules based on factors such as consumer demand in the area and w...
What is Going on With Gender-Affirming Care in NYC?
Thursday, February 06, 2025
News outlets are reporting that NYU Langone is cancelling some appointments for gender-affirming care for transgender children -- and that other hospital systems have removed mentions...
Homelessness, mental health and subway safety: How Hochul and Adams faced the trifecta in NY
Monday, October 21, 2024
Daniel Penny is going on trial this month on charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, nearly a year-and-a-half after the former Marine put fellow passenger Jordan Ne...
NYC cracked down on illegal weed bodegas, left behind hundreds of shuttered storefronts
Monday, September 30, 2024
A candy-colored “Exotic Clouds” sign that once beckoned customers into a smoke shop at Stanton and Ludlow streets now hangs over a darkened storefront with windows covered in graffiti...
The Crackdown on Illegal Cannabis Shops
Monday, August 19, 2024
A city initiative known as “Operation Padlock to Protect” has shut down more than 900 illegal cannabis shops across the city since it launched in May. Caroline Lewis, health care rep...
Many NYC psych patients have no chance to go outside
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Many psychiatric patients at New York City’s public hospitals have no opportunity to go outside, sometimes for weeks or months at a time, according to a new report.
NJ suffered horrible COVID-19 loses. 'Postmortem' says it's not ready for another emergency.
Friday, March 15, 2024
The report says the state needs to beef up its health infrastructure and train its government workers on responding to emergencies.
'Medical respite' a growing option for NYC's homeless hospital patients in recovery
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
New York is looking to grow its slate of medical respite programs, which free up hospital beds while providing homeless patients ongoing care after their own hospital visits.
How Citymeals on Wheels and other senior services are prepping for NYC's next disaster
Thursday, November 09, 2023
Some senior service providers in New York City are rethinking their emergency preparedness, both in the wake of COVID-19 and in light of a changing climate and an aging population.
Maimonides evicts current and former hospital workers from buildings converted into NYC affordable housing
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
At least 20 of the tenants have been granted permission to combine their cases in court and make a joint argument against the hospital.
