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NYC Health + Hospitals / Gotham Health today announced $4.8 million in Fiscal Year 2027 City Council capital funding, sponsored by New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Council Member Kevin C. Riley, to support major improvements at Gotham Health, Gun Hill. The investment will enhance clinical spaces, improve the patient experience, and strengthen women’s and pediatric health services for patients and families in the Bronx. The funding includes $3.5 million for the renovation of Women’s Health Services and Pediatrics, converting underutilized space into a new women’s health and pediatric suite with fully accessible exam and support rooms. An additional $1.2 million will support the renovation of the reception and patient waiting area, creating a more welcoming and functional environment for patients and families. The remaining $100,000 will fund a new colposcope, providing diagnostic and treatment capabilities to support women’s health services. “We are deeply grateful to New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Council Member Kevin C. Riley for this significant investment in Gotham Health, Gun Hill,” said Michelle Lewis, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals / Gotham Health. “This $4.8 million in capital funding will allow us to modernize critical clinical spaces, strengthen women’s and pediatric health services, and provide an improved care experience for our patients and families. These investments demonstrate our shared commitment to ensuring that Bronx residents have access to high-quality, equitable care close to home.” “Every New Yorker deserves access to high-quality healthcare, regardless of their ZIP code, income or background,” said Council Member Kevin C. Riley, Chair of the Committee on Land Use. “For communities like ours in the Bronx, healthcare equity means ensuring families can access modern facilities, specialized services and quality care right in their own neighborhoods. I am proud to partner with Speaker Julie Menin todeliver this $4.8 million investment in NYCHealth + Hospitals / Gotham Health, Gun Hill. By strengthening women’s health and pediatric services, upgrading critical equipment and improving the patient experience, we are investing in healthier families and helping close longstanding gaps in care. I will continue working to bring the resources our Bronx families need closer to home and ensure our community has access to the quality care it deserves.” “Every family across our city deserves access to high-quality health care close to home,” said City Council Speaker Julie Menin. “This investment, including $3.5 million to build a new women’s health and pediatric suite at Gotham Health Gun Hill, will meaningfully expand access to essential care for Bronx families. I am proud to partner with Council Member Kevin Riley and NYC Health + Hospitals in delivering this critical funding for Gun Hill.” The $4.8 million capital investment will help Gotham Health, Gun Hill continue its mission of providing coordinated, high-quality primary and specialty care with dignity and respect to all New Yorkers while strengthening access to essential healthcare services in the Bronx. About NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health NYC Health + Hospitals / Gotham Health is a Federally Qualified Healthcare Provider formed in 2015 to enable individuals and families to address their health care needs in their own neighborhoods. Serving more than 100,000 New Yorkers annually in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island, and Queens, Gotham Health consists of 29 healthcare sites in all five boroughs of New York City. Gotham Health provides easy-to-access, high-quality, affordable health care services with a focus on primary care. It is committed to promoting healthy lifestyles and building healthy communities, with a focus upon providing patients and families convenient access to high-quality preventive care, such as annual check-ups and immunizations. Health care teams are trained to help patients manage ongoing conditions, such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma, and heart disease. About NYC Health + Hospitals NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest municipal health care system in the nation serving more than a million New Yorkers annually in more than 70 patient care locations across the city’s five boroughs. A robust network of outpatient, neighborhood-based primary and specialty care centers anchors care coordination with the system’s trauma centers, nursing homes, post-acute care centers, home care agency, and MetroPlusHealth—all supported by 11 essential hospitals. Its diverse workforce of more than 46,000 employees is uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers, without exception, to live the healthiest life possible. For more information, visit nychealthandhospitals.org and stay connected on Facebook, X, Instagram and LinkedIn.

NYC Health + Hospitals / Jacobi | North Central Bronx hosted a memorial service in the 9/11 Memorial Garden on Jacobi’s campus for the 25th Anniversary to honor the lives lost, recognize the bravery of emergency responders, and to remember the unity of New Yorkers coming together. Attendees were given carnation flowers to lay on the memorial plaques, along with a commemorative pin to mark the 25th Anniversary. Following the memorial service, attendees were directed towards a breakfast where a video was played of hospital staff recounting their memories, working at Jacobi on September 11, 2001. The program began with opening remarks by NYC Health + Hospitals / Jacobi | North Central CEO Christopher Mastromano, followed by a SUNY Maritime Color Guard presentation and the Pledge of Allegiance. Moments of silence were taken at 8:46 a.m. and 9:03 a.m., when each of the twin towers were hit. Although attendees were somber thinking about the tragedy at Ground Zero, students of the P.S. 108 choir sang the National Anthem beautifully, reminding the community of hope and resiliency before the names of Bronxites lost on 9/11 were recited by local elected officials. Following the remembrance of Bronxites, NYC Health + Hospitals / Jacobi | North Central Bronx Community Advisory Board Chairs Charmaine Graham and Robert Seitz recited the poem, Meet Me in the Stairwell written by Stacey Randall. A poem telling the story of 9/11 from the perspective of God, with the message that God was with everyone on that day, the victims, their families, and all who were watching. Father Hippolytus Duru, Chaplain at Jacobi, then led a 9/11 Remembrance Prayer followed by Assistant Director of Communications Diane Arroya singing Amazing Grace. NYC Health + Hospitals / Jacobi | North Central Bronx Senior Leadership Team walked up to the memorial plaques in pairs, to place the wreaths, followed by attendees joining in laying carnations. To close the service, the student choir sang and NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx Ambulatory Project Manager Gabriel Mujica played his trumpet as attendees walked over to a breakfast and viewing of a video recounting staff’s memory working at Jacobi on September 11, 2001. “It is with great honor that Jacobi’s campus has a 9/11 Memorial Garden, dedicated to remembering the lives lost 25 years ago today, many of whom were Bronxites,” said, NYC Health + Hospitals / Jacobi | North Central Bronx CEO Christopher Mastromano. “We are so lucky to have such brave, selfless hospital staff across both of our campuses. Thank you to all who were working at NYC Health + Hospitals / Jacobi | North Central Bronx on that day.” About NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi | North Central Bronx The Jacobi campus of NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi | North Central Bronx is a 457-bed teaching hospital affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The facility has earned numerous Center of Excellence designations, accreditation, and recognition for its renowned Level 1 Trauma Center, Burn Center, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, regional Stroke Center, Snakebite Treatment Center, Breast Health Center, Bariatric Surgery Center, and Cancer Service. The facility also offers the region’s only multi-person hyperbaric chamber, allowing up to nine patients to dive together at one time. Jacobi’s Ambulatory Care Pavilion is a stunning complement to its inpatient acute care, allowing staff to provide patients with high-quality service in a modern, state-of-the-art environment. For more information, please visit nychealthandhospitals.org/jacobi. The North Central Bronx campus of NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi | North Central Bronx is a member facility of the NYC Health + Hospitals system, one of eleven acute care facilities within the City of New York. A 215-bed community hospital, North Central Bronx specializes in women’s and children’s services. It also provides Behavioral Health acute and ambulatory care. Its busy outpatient department has led the way in community-based care delivered in a compassionate and culturally-appropriate manner. Its Labor and Delivery service safely brings more than 1,000 babies into the world each year. North Central Bronx is committed to providing safe, high-quality medical care for any and all in need. For more information, visit nychealthandhospitals.org/north-central-bronx. About NYC Health + Hospitals NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest municipal health care system in the nation serving more than a million New Yorkers annually in more than 70 patient care locations across the city’s five boroughs. A robust network of outpatient, neighborhood-based primary and specialty care centers anchors care coordination with the system’s trauma centers, nursing homes, post-acute care centers, home care agency, and MetroPlusHealth—all supported by 11 essential hospitals. Its diverse workforce of more than 46,000 employees is uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers, without exception, to live the healthiest life possible. For more information, visit nychealthandhospitals.org and stay connected on Facebook, X, Instagram and LinkedIn.

The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy ended in a mistrial after jurors deadlocked 11 to 1. Eleven members of the panel favored finding the Massachusetts mother not criminally responsible for strangling her three young children. One juror refused to join them. That lone holdout was a Black man. He was also the only person of color on the entire jury. The revelation came from juror Paula Devlin in a public interview. She stated plainly that everybody else on the panel was White. The racial makeup of the deadlock has now become part of the public discussion surrounding a case that already divided the country. Lindsay Clancy admitted she killed her children. In January 2023 she used exercise bands to strangle five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan in the basement of the family home in Duxbury, Massachusetts. She then attempted to take her own life. Her defense argued that she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis and therefore lacked criminal responsibility. Prosecutors sought a first-degree murder conviction. After weeks of testimony and more than a week of deliberations, the jury could not reach unanimity. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial. Clancy remains institutionalized. Prosecutors must now decide whether to retry the case. What The Majority Jurors Have Said Several jurors from the 11-person majority have spoken publicly. They described intense frustration with the holdout. According to their accounts, the lone juror at one point acknowledged reasonable doubt yet still refused to vote for a finding of not criminally responsible. The foreperson reportedly began filling out the verdict forms before the holdout reversed course and held firm. Paula Devlin and others portrayed the holdout as rigid and unwilling to engage fully with the medical evidence and the legal standard of reasonable doubt. Some characterized his stance as focused primarily on the brutality of the killings themselves rather than the question of mental capacity at the time of the acts. The defense at one point asked the judge to remove the holdout juror, arguing he was not following the instructions on reasonable doubt. The judge declined. The deadlock persisted until the mistrial was declared. The Racial Detail And Its Weight The fact that the sole holdout was the only Black juror has drawn immediate attention. In a country where race is frequently injected into discussions of justice, the detail invites speculation. Some observers will see a solitary Black man standing against an otherwise White panel as evidence of independent judgment. Others will view the 11-1 split along racial lines as further proof that demographic differences can shape perceptions of evidence, especially in emotionally charged cases involving parental violence and mental illness. Devlin made the racial composition explicit. The jury consisted of nine women and three men. Ages ranged from the early twenties to approximately seventy. Only one juror was not White. That juror was the Black man who prevented a unanimous verdict. No public statement has yet come from the holdout himself. His identity remains protected. His specific reasoning, beyond what the majority jurors have attributed to him, is not fully known. The Underlying Case The killings themselves are not in dispute. Clancy ended the lives of her three children in a single afternoon while her husband was out of the house. The central legal question was whether postpartum psychosis or related mental illness rendered her unable to form the required criminal intent or appreciate the wrongfulness of her actions. Expert testimony on both sides addressed the severity of her mental state, her prior medical history, her behavior before and after the killings, and the diagnostic criteria for postpartum psychosis. The majority of the jury found the defense evidence persuasive enough to create reasonable doubt on criminal responsibility. The lone holdout did not. Cases of this nature test the boundaries of criminal law, mental health science, and public intuition about parental duty. When a mother kills her own children, many people instinctively reject any explanation short of full accountability. Others insist that severe psychiatric breaks can and do produce acts that the actor would never commit in a rational state. The Clancy jury could not resolve that tension. Why The Holdout Matters A single juror possesses the power to prevent conviction or acquittal. That is a deliberate feature of the American system. Unanimity is required precisely so that one person’s sincere doubt can block a verdict. The system values the risk of deadlock over the risk of forcing consensus. At the same time, when eleven jurors reach one conclusion and one juror stands alone, public curiosity about the holdout is inevitable. When that holdout is also the only member of a racial minority on the panel, the curiosity intensifies. Race becomes part of the story whether or not it actually drove the decision. The majority jurors have presented their colleague as obstinate. The holdout has not yet presented his own account. Until he does, the public is left with the accounts of those who opposed him and the demographic fact that he was the sole Black man in the room. What Comes Next Prosecutors must decide whether to retry Lindsay Clancy. A second trial would require a new jury and a fresh examination of the same evidence. Clancy remains in a state psychiatric facility. The families of the murdered children continue to live with irreversible loss. The mistrial does not resolve the legal or moral questions raised by the case. It simply postpones them. The identity of the lone holdout as a Black man is now part of the public record of how the first attempt at resolution failed. Justice systems are human institutions. Juries are collections of individuals with different life experiences, different thresholds for doubt, and different reactions to the same testimony. In this instance, eleven White jurors reached one conclusion. One Black juror reached another. The result was a hung jury and a case that remains unresolved. The children are still dead. Their mother remains in custody. And the single holdout who prevented a verdict has been identified by race by one of his fellow panelists. That is the current state of the Lindsay Clancy case.

Bronx Community College (BCC) has earned national and state recognition for its commitment to student success, affordability and opportunity, ranking #5 among Best Community Colleges in New York State in Niche’s 2027 rankings and #7 in the nation among the Best Colleges for Hispanic Students in Washington Monthly’s 2026 rankings. Niche’s annual rankings draw on U.S. Department of Education data covering academics, admissions, affordability and student life, as well as millions of student reviews. Washington Monthly’s rankings, produced in collaboration with Excelencia in Education, evaluate how effectively colleges serve Hispanic students, including measures of Hispanic student graduation and transfer rates, affordability and Pell Grant enrollment. The rankings also consider institutional efforts to support Hispanic students, including programming and long-range planning. “We are honored to once again be recognized among New York’s leading community colleges and especially proud that our work has earned national distinction,” said BCC President Larry D. Johnson, Jr. “These honors reflect our unwavering commitment to preparing, inspiring, and empowering every student through an affordable, high-quality education. At BCC, we are creating an environment where all students feel a sense of belonging and have access to the programs, resources, and holistic support needed to overcome barriers, achieve their goals, and build brighter futures.” BCC students and graduates continue to achieve strong outcomes. Approximately 90% of BCC graduates are employed within one year of graduation, with the same percentage remaining employed five years later. On average, earning an associate degree from BCC increases earning potential by 35% compared with a high school diploma. Founded in 1957, BCC is the oldest of The City University of New York’s six community colleges and a proud Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). The College serves more than 10,500 credit and non-credit students from nearly 100 countries and offers more than 40 associate degree and certificate programs in fields including Media and Digital Film Production, Cybersecurity, Health Sciences and Nuclear Medicine Technology. BCC also provides workforce training, continuing education and professional studies through its adult learning programs. BCC’s 45-acre campus overlooking the Harlem River combines educational opportunity with a rich history. It is home to the historic Hall of Fame for Great Americans, while its architecturally significant grounds have earned the rare designation of National Historic Landmark. As BCC celebrates its 70th anniversary and enters its eighth decade, Bronx Renaissance 2031 builds on the College’s legacy of opportunity while charting a new course and redefining what’s possible for the students and communities it serves.