HOME | OVERVIEW | CALENDAR | LEGISLATION | ARTICLES | VIDEO | ESPANOL
AsthmaMoms News
clicking on a link will open a new window
  • The Battery Park City Broadsheet
    "Stringer Enforcement: Beep Pushes Back on Construction Violations 'To Hold City Agencies Accountable'"
    March 7-21, 2008, by Evan Simko-Bednarski
  • Crain's New York
    "City cracks down on sloppy construction"
    February 21, 2008, by Kira Bindrim
  • WNYC
    "New Plan for Former Deutsche BankFederal and state regulators have approved a new plan to take down the former Deutsche Bank building."
    February 8, 2008. by Matthew Schuerman
  • The Resident
    "130 Liberty St. Gets New Contractor"
    January 29, 2008
  • Downtown Express
    "Feds kick in millions for residents’ 9/11 ailments"
    Jan. 4-10, 2008, by Julie Shapiro
  • Metro New York
    "Tenant woe in WTC area"
    December 12, 2007, by Amy Zimmer
  • Downtown Express
    "Gerson unveils bill to battle 60 Hudson diesel"
    Nov. 30 - Dec. 6, 2007, by Julie Shapiro
  • The New York Sun
    "Bank Fire Prompts Hearing On Informing City Residents"
    September 19, 2007, by Grace Rauh
  • Downtown Express
    "L.M.D.C. agrees to reseal Deutsche after low dioxin levels are found"
    September 14 - 20, 2007, By Skye H. McFarlane
  • Gotham Gazette
    "Lessons fromDeutsche Bank"
    August 27, 2007, by Julie Menin and Catherine McVay Hughes
  • The New York Times
    "Downtown, New Worries About Air and Notification"
    August 20, 2007, by James Barron
  • Heroes in NYC Community Health - community leaders, businesses and organization for signing resolutions or adopting policies to reduce youth exposure to tobacco products
    NYC Coaltion for a Smoke-Free City
    July 26, 2007, The New York Times full page ad (B5)
  • Downtown Express
    "Cortlandt straphangers will wait another few years for reopening"
    July 13 - 19, 2007, by Skye H. McFarlane
  • CSPAN Video
    Nadler Chairs First Comprehensive Hearing on Federal Environmental Response at WTC - Former EPA Administrator Whitman, Government Officials Testify on Post 9/11 Air Quality
    June 25, 2007
  • Tribeca Trib
    "Deutsche Bank Accident Angers Residents"
    May 18, 2007, by Andrea Appleton
  • Downtown Express
    "Construction center: To know it is not to love it, Downtowners say"
    March 23 - 29, 2007, by Skye H. McFarlane and Josh Rogers
  • The Chief: Civil Services Leader
    "Above $25 Commitment: 9/11 Families Press Bush for More Aid"
    February 9, 2007, by Ginger Adams Otis
  • The New York Times
    "Cleanup of 9/11 Dust Resume, EPA Says, Despite Widespread Criticism"
    December 7, 2006, by Anthony DePalma
  • Downtown Express
    "Tighter pollution restrictions for many construction projects"
    November 17-23, 2006, by Skye H. McFarlane
  • Tribeca Trib
    "No Tour Bus Parking in WTC Memorial Plans"
    October 20, 2006, by Etta Sanders
  • Battery Park Broadsheet
    "Silverstein Properties Decrees Low-Sulfur Truck Fuel Use by Its Contractors at the WTC Site
    July 25-September 7, 2006, by Serena Hedison
  • WCBS-TV New York
     "How Many New Yorkers' Will Have Long Term Health Problems from 9/11?
    April 28, 2006, by Marcia Kramer
  • Downtown Express
    "These greens are still pressing the 9/11 environmental fight"
    March 17-23, 2006, by Ronda Kaysen
  • NYPost
    "Residents Rip RX-$$ Snub"
    March 12, 2006, by Susan Edelman and Cathy Burke
  • WNBC/Channel 4 TV News
    "Judge Blasts Ex-EPA Chief For 'Concience-Shocking' Actions After 9/11"
    February 3, 2006 (Video, click on screen)
  • MSNBC
    "N.Y. buildings to be tested for 9/11 toxic dust EPA plan controversial, some want it to be mandatory"
    Dec. 14, 2005, Associated Press
  • Metro New York
    "EPA's WTC dust testing plan outrages residents, groups: More of Manhattan, part of Brooklyn should be included, they say, for fear of health risks"
    November 30, 2005, by Amy Zimmer
  • Village Voice
    "Dusted: Long after 9-11, some people say the dust is still making them sick. Now they want the EPA to do something about it."
    September 6th, 2005, by Kristen Lombardi
  • Disaster News
    "NYC cleanup criticized"
    July 13, 2005, By Heather Moyer
  • Downtown Express
    "Kicking up dust over new air testing plan"
    June 10 -16, 2005, By Ronda Kaysen
  • Reader's Digest
    Health
    March 2005 (pg. 181-RD)
  • NYDaily News
    9/11 cleanup urged: EPA critics say toxic fumes contaminated boro
    January 28, 2005, by Hugh Son
  • Downtown Express
    E.P.A. attempts to clarify role at Deutsche Bank
    Dec. 31, 2004 - Jan. 6, 2005, By Ronda Kaysen
  • New York Post
    "Feds' WTC Plan Scrubs Cleanup for Downtown"
    November 14, 2004, by Sam Smith
  • Epidemiology
    • "How Safe Is It to Live Here? Lapses in Risk Communitication, Precaution, Research and Response and Their Consequences for Local Community Trust in the Aftermath of the World Trade Center Disaster." [15(4):S198]
    • "Psycho-Social Impacts Amongst A Neglected Popultion: The Residential Community of Lower Manhattan After the WTC Disaster." [15(4):S124, July 2004]
  • The Battery Park City Broadsheet
    Neighbors: Catherine McVay Hughes (May 4 - May 19, 2004)
  • The New York Times
    "    A Sampling of Apartments To Be Retested for 9/11 Ills"
    March 2, 2004, by Anthony DePalma
  • Gotham Gazette
    Responses To The Enviromental Impact Statement (March 2004)
  • New York Newsday
    "Traffic, Trucks, Smog and Shadows"
    February 19, 2004, By Errol A. Cockfield Jr.
  • NY1
    Experts Weigh In On Environmental Impact Of New World Trade Center
    February 18, 2004, by Amanda Farinacci
  • New York Family
    "Health Hazards at Your Doorstep"
    February 2004, by Larissa Philips
  • Tribeca Trib
    "Air Filters Still Gather Downtown Dust
    January 2004, by Etta Sanders
  • Downtown Express
    "Clinton blocks E.P.A. appointment over Downtown air"
    Sept 30 - Oct 06, 2003 (Volume 16 , Issue 18), By Elizabeth O'Brien
  • Second Annual World Asthma Day for NYC Downtown Residents and Workers
    Sponsored with New York Univeristy, Bellevue Hospital Center-Asthma Clinic and American Lung Association of NY
    Registered activity with National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
    World Asthma Day, May 6, 2003
  • Secondary Physical Education
    "Health and Fitness:     Asthma - What's new"
    PELINKS4U is a non-profit program of Central Washington University dedicated to promoting active and healthy lifestyles (July 1, 2002 Vol.4 No.11)
  • Alsofa.org
    "Teen" section feature article (May 2002)
  • New York Newsday
    "Couple Lives With Dust," By Joshua Robin (May 8, 2002)
  • First Mobile Asthma Program for World Trade Center Residents and Workers
    Sponsored with Bellevue Hospital Center-Asthma Clinic, New York University and American Lung Association of NY
    Registered activity with National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
    World Asthma Day, May 7, 2002
  • New York Daily News
    Check Downtowners: Opinion: Voice of the People (January 31, 2002)
  • Child Care Health Connections (PDF file, need Acrobat Reader to open)
    "Resources: Douments and Materials,"     health and safety newsletter for California child care professionals
    California Childcare Health Program, Graduate School of Health, San Diego State University
    (November-December 2001 * Volume 14 * Number 6, page 12)
  • Environmental Health Perspectives, Journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
    "Focus: Environmental Aftermath: A Community Comes to Grips" ... World Trade Center
    (Volume 109, Number 11, November 2001; by Luz Claudio)
  • New York-WABC/Channel 7
    "Residents Still Concerned About Ground Zero Air Quality"
    (Anthony Johnson reporting, November 26, 2001)
  • WNYC AM820: On The Line with Brian Lehrer
    "The Asthma Epidemic: How Can Your Child -- and You -- Breathe Easier?
    Live 30-Minute Panel Interview (July 18, 2001)
  • Gotham Gazette, published by the Citizens Union Foundation
    "City That Never Breathes: This Week's Issue," by Kevin Strouse (May 14, 2001)
  • WETM 18 Online
    "Ozone Warning In Twin Tiers: Ken Martin Reporting" (Friday, May 04, 2001)
  • National Education Association: NEAToday Online
    "Clearing the Air on Asthma" (May 2001).
  • National Parent Information Network (NPIN), Parent News for January-February 2001
    "Resources for Parents: NETWorking: Web Sites to Visit"
    NPIN is a project of the ERIC system, which is administered by the National Library of Education in the U.S. Department of Education.
  • Big Apple Parent
    "FamilyHealth: New Asthma Website" (February 2001)
  • The Battery Park City Broadsheet
    "Downtown Resident Lauches Web Site for Information About Asthma" (January 24 - February 8, 2001)
  • Buffalo Beat
    "Surf's Up" profiles AsthmaMoms ( November 30 - December 6, 2000)
Also mentioned in:
  • San Jose Mercury News
    "Research centers prepare for more terrorist attacks" (Sep. 28, 2003, By Peter Delevett)
  • National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health and Georgetown University
    "Knowledge Path: Asthma in Children and Adolescents," by Susan Brune Lorenzo, M.L.S. (August 2002).
  • Pennsylvania Community Providers Association (PDF file, need Acrobat Reader to open)
    "Available Resources" (September 2001, page 15)
  • TUCC NEWS (PDF file, need Acrobat Reader to open)
    Information and Invitations from the Tufts University Center for Children (August 23, 2001, page 3)
  • ENotes
    "Resources and Opportunities: Asthma Site"
    The electronic newsletter for CT Voices for Children, Yale Child Study Center (August 23, 2001)
  • The Dollar Stretcher: For Parents
    "Living Better...For Less" Volume 3, Number 21, e-newsletter (May 23, 2001)
  • NYC24.com
    "Uneasy Breathing: Asthma in NYC, can it be Prevented?" (April 6, 2001)
Other:
  • Asthma Day 2004: AsthmaMoms organizes 3rd Annual World Asthma Day for Downtown Community Residents
    Sponsors: New York University, Bellevue Hospital, American Lung Association of the City of NY, Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund
  • Health Force and the Mott Haven-Longwood Childhood Asthma Partnership Conference
    Presentation at "Confronting Asthma in the Learning Environment: Asthma Resources for Schools, Head Start & Daycare" February 26, 2003
  • New York City Department of Health Staff Training
    Presentation on asthma and World Trade Center resources to about 100 Public Health and Medical Assistants who work with NYC school nurses, DC 37     (August 30, 2002)
  • ParentClicks.com
    "Click of the Week" Award for the week of April 30-May 6, 2001
  • Earth Day Lobby Day Cosponsor
    Organized by Environmental Advocates, Albany, NY (April 23, 2001)
    Supported NYS asthma emergency room data collection (Assembly Bill 1644, Kaufman) and (Senate Bill 3341, Hannon)
  • FamilyClick.com
    Health Highlights: Featured Website (May 2001)
Headed an informational booth at the following Health Fairs:
  • Community Health Fair, Harlem, NY
    Sponsored by New York City Department of Health (NYCDOH) (July 20, 2001)
  • Asthma Awareness/Housing Fair, Robert Wagner Playground, Harlem, NY
    Sponsored by Asthma Smart (a project of Borikin Health Center), New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and Section 8 Housing (May 5, 2001)
  • Millennium 2000 Network Communication Health Fair, Harlem, NY
    Sponsored by New York City Department of Health (NYCDOH) (July 28, 2000)
  • Fourth Annual Community Health Fair, Poe Park, Bronx, NY
    Sponsored by New York City Department of Health (NYCDOH) (July 19, 2000)

PRODUCT EVALUATIONS | MEDIA |  ABOUT US ||CONTACT US
-- Copyright @ 2000 All Rights Reserved AsthmaMoms and others. Private Policy and Disclaimer.