Air quality in New York City hookah bars

Trends in Hookah Use Among New York City Middle and High School Students, 2008–2014

We examined trends in hookah use among New York City middle and high school students. We calculated prevalences, linear trends, and odds ratios of ever and current hookah use, by selected demographic variables, using 2008 through 2014 data from the New York State Youth Tobacco Survey. The prevalence of ever hookah use increased overall from 2008 through 2014 (8.9% to 13.0%, P = .01); current us...

Exposures to multiple air toxics in New York City.

Efforts to assess health risks associated with exposures to multiple urban air toxics have been hampered by the lack of exposure data for people living in urban areas. The TEACH (Toxic Exposure Assessment, a Columbia/Harvard) study was designed to characterize levels of and factors influencing personal exposures to urban air toxics among high school students living in inner-city neighborhoods o...

Managing water quality in a New York City watershed

Currently economic growth in a New York City watershed is limited due to phosphorus concentrations exceeding standards. The phosphorus concentration in the Cannonsville reservoir in New York State must be reduced to safeguard New York City’s drinking water supply, and to enable economic growth to continue in the reservoir’s watershed. In Delaware County, where the reservoir is located, the prob...

Analyses of crowd-sourced sound levels of restaurants and bars in New York City

Diabetes in New York City.