NEW YORK \u2014 Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a $20 million investment in Bronx childhood asthma programs, funded through the Metropolitan Transportation Authority\u2019s congestion pricing mitigation plan. <\/p>\n
The funding will support expanded asthma care in schools and community programs in neighborhoods where children continue to experience high rates of respiratory illness despite citywide declines.<\/p>\n
\u201cNew Yorkers are already benefitting from congestion pricing, and now we\u2019re taking it a step further by investing those funds to improve asthma outcomes for children in the Bronx,\u201d Mamdani said. <\/p>\n
The investment draws from the MTA\u2019s $100 million mitigation program aimed at communities disproportionately affected by pollution and health inequities, according to city officials.<\/p>\n
The city Health Department will distribute the funding across two programs: $8.9 million for the Bronx Asthma Program and $11.1 million to expand school-based asthma case management.<\/p>\n
Under the expansion, 15 additional Bronx schools will join the asthma case management program, which provides in-school medication support and family education. The city also plans to replace a paper-based medication system with an electronic platform before the 2026\u201327 school year.<\/p>\n
The MTA\u2019s mitigation program has previously funded emissions reduction projects, including truck electrification and refrigeration unit replacements in Hunts Point, officials said.<\/p>\n
Children in the Bronx continue to face higher asthma rates than most of the city, even as emergency department visits for children ages 5 to 17 fell 38 percent citywide and 25 percent in the Bronx between 2009 and 2024, according to city data.<\/p>\n
How Have Congestion Pricing Funds Been Used? <\/p>\n
New York\u2019s congestion pricing mitigation program directs $100 million total to neighborhoods most affected by vehicle pollution, including the Bronx, Brooklyn and northern Manhattan. <\/p>\n
Hunts Point refrigeration unit replacements \u2014 $15 million <\/p>\n
The MTA allocated $15 million to replace roughly 1,000 diesel transport refrigeration units at the Hunts Point Produce Market, a major emissions source in the Bronx. <\/p>\n
Electric truck charging infrastructure \u2014 $20 million <\/p>\n
The program set aside $20 million to expand electric truck charging infrastructure across industrial and freight-heavy areas to reduce diesel truck emissions. <\/p>\n
NYC Clean Trucks Program \u2014 part of $230 million regional mitigation pool <\/p>\n
A broader $230 million mitigation category includes funding for the NYC Clean Trucks Program, which subsidizes the replacement of diesel trucks with electric, hybrid, and low-emission vehicles. <\/p>\n
School air quality improvements \u2014 about $10 million <\/p>\n
Roughly $10 million has been directed toward installing or upgrading air filtration systems in schools located near highways and high-traffic corridors. <\/p>\n
Parks and neighborhood greening \u2014 about $25 million <\/p>\n
The program includes approximately $25 million for parks upgrades and greening projects in environmental justice communities to reduce exposure to pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a $20 million investment in Bronx childhood asthma programs, funded through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-220886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}