‘Bronx Swamp’ endangers health

Lindsay A. Lazarski, City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism

Abstract

Gloria Hidalgo likes living in her quiet building on 142nd Street. The rent is reasonable; her neighbors are hard-working people, her sister and two nieces live three floors below her and Hostos Community College, where she is studying to become an accountant, is just blocks away. But a rotten smell, just five stories below her windows may force Hidalgo to move.