Sasha Chavkin

Sasha Chavkin appears in the following:

How Some Medical Implants Are Making People Sick

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

A new series of reporting shows that medical device implants are less regulated than pharmaceutical drugs.

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Citizen's Patrol in Caribbean Neighborhood Gets Help from Unlikely Source

Wednesday, July 03, 2013

A citizens patrol in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, struggled to get the resources it needed. Then a group from a neighboring Orthodox Jewish community stepped up to help.

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State Registries Saved Lives During Sandy, But Not in NYC

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

In 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a registry that would allow disaster responders to know where to find people most urgently in need of aid. But he does not appear to have followed through.

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NYC Lags in Granting Relief to Some Illegal Immigrants

Monday, November 26, 2012

There are about 43,000 people in New York City who are facing deportation. But many are hoping that a highly touted immigration policy reform might stop efforts to remove them from the country.  

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