Inspired by a new urbanism that celebrates neighborhoods and
alarmed by health problems — particularly childhood obesity — these trailblazers are building paths, sidewalks and other architectural features while promoting policies and behaviors that get people moving.
The Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public
alarm even though federal regulators warned senior
health department officials that people in Hoosick Falls should be alerted they were drinking water that contained dangerous levels of a chemical linked to cancer and other serious
health problems, according to documents recently obtained
by POLITICO New York through a Freedom of Information Request.