Mental Health News

People laid white roses at the World Trade Center's 9/11 Memorial.

Health

Anxiety Is Side Effect of Staffing Cuts at Sept. 11 Health Program

April 21, 2025, 4:55 a.m.April 18, 2025, 4:39 p.m.

Mayor Eric Adams has been slow to criticize the moves of the Trump istration, which have 9/11 survivors and first-responders on edge.

Barbed-wire fences surrounded a jail complex on Rivers Island.

Mental Health

Scores of People Deemed Unfit to Stand Trial Are Stuck on Rikers Island

Feb. 3, 2025, 5:05 a.m.Feb. 3, 2025, 2:26 p.m.

State psych wards for seriously mentally ill people are so full that growing numbers are held in city jails instead.

Health

What We Know About Long Covid in New York City: Symptoms, Treatment and Risks

Jan. 23, 2025, 1:16 p.m.Jan. 23, 2025, 1:16 p.m.

Navigating and getting care for Long Covid can be overwhelming. However, many city clinics and hospitals are on the leading edge of understanding and treating it.

Joyce Brown, with attorney Norman Siegel, became the face of City Hall's 1980s push for forced institutionalization of mentally ill people.

Mental Health

Subway Attacks Renew Questions About Forced Mental Health Treatment

Jan. 13, 2025, 5:30 p.m.Jan. 14, 2025, 3:47 p.m.

A look back at the story of Joyce Brown, who in the 1980s fought city government efforts to force her into a psychiatric hospital.

The name "Trump" hung in gold lettering on the facade of 40 Wall Street.

Health

After Trump Victory, New York Officials, Experts Brace for Assault on Public Health

Nov. 7, 2024, 6:41 p.m.Nov. 7, 2024, 6:41 p.m.

Many worry about how Trump might reshape federal health policy — and how those changes could curtail local public health initiatives.

Member art at Fountain House in Manhattan, July 16, 2024.

Mental Health

Expansion of City’s Mental-Health Clubhouses Could Shut Down Smaller Sites

July 22, 2024, 5:00 a.m.July 21, 2024, 12:36 p.m.

At New York City’s Fountain House, the first and biggest of its kind, get by with a little help from their friends.

Gov. Kathy Hochul at The Clinton School in Manhattan on Friday, June 24, 2022.

Mental Health

Hochul Considers Smartphone Ban for New York Schools

May 31, 2024, 11:42 a.m.May 31, 2024, 11:42 a.m.

The governor wants to dial down the use of cell phones in public schools over mental health concerns.

Moments before police officers from the 102nd Precinct in Ozone Park, Queens, shot and killed Win Rozario on March 27, 2024, as his mother tried to protect him.

NYPD

‘Please Don’t Shoot My Mom!’: Body-Cam Footage Shows Rapidly Escalating Moments Before Cops Killed Win Rozario

May 3, 2024, 3:00 p.m.May 7, 2024, 12:01 p.m.

The state attorney general’s office released the video hours after THE CITY reported the family's frustrations with the lack of ability for the officers.

Retired MTA worker Billie Turner poses for a portrait outside the Shepherd Avenue station in East New York.

Mental Health

As Subway Collisions Rise, Train Operators Feeling the Pain

April 11, 2024, 5:00 a.m.April 11, 2024, 12:24 a.m.

The number of trains hitting people has surged nearly 30% since 2018, even as the ridership remains well below the pre-pandemic mark.

The Living Museum at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens displays art created by patients.

Mental Health

New York’s Least Likely, Most ‘Magical’ Museum

March 7, 2024, 5:05 a.m.March 12, 2024, 12:27 p.m.

As a mental institution in Queens hollowed out, artists studios took root and have grown over four decades into one of the city’s most inspiring, and overlooked, institutions.

Mental Health

Anxiety Is Side Effect of Staffing Cuts at Sept. 11 Health Program

Scores of People Deemed Unfit to Stand Trial Are Stuck on Rikers Island

What We Know About Long Covid in New York City: Symptoms, Treatment and Risks

Subway Attacks Renew Questions About Forced Mental Health Treatment

After Trump Victory, New York Officials, Experts Brace for Assault on Public Health

Expansion of City’s Mental-Health Clubhouses Could Shut Down Smaller Sites

Hochul Considers Smartphone Ban for New York Schools

‘Please Don’t Shoot My Mom!’: Body-Cam Footage Shows Rapidly Escalating Moments Before Cops Killed Win Rozario

As Subway Collisions Rise, Train Operators Feeling the Pain

New York’s Least Likely, Most ‘Magical’ Museum

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