In this short 10-minute mini-documentary from GroundTruth Films, see how air pollution in the South Bronx is causing an epidemic of asthma and other lung diseases at an alarming rate. You will meet Cynthia Ruales, an asthmatic student from the neighborhood who finds hope in her saxophone.

Cynthia lives with her mother in an area of the South Bronx known as “asthma alley” where the rate of this chronic disease is 8 to 12 times higher than the national average. While Cynthia fears the drug and gang violence that define her neighborhood, she worries even more about the daily assault on her body caused by the highways, truck thoroughfares, and open-air industrial facilities that surround her.

One Times Square, the famous building on the south end of Manhattan's Times Square, was once the home of The New York Times. Completed in 1904, and the Times stayed there for just 10 years before moving to a larger location. Over the next century, the building would become a home to a speakeasy, a shooting range, and offices, only to become mostly empty in recent years, undesirable due to all windows being obstructed by billboards. Despite the empty interior, it is still one of the most famous buildings in the world, housing the New Years Eve Ball, the focal point of the celebration in NYC.

Here is a Google StreetView of how the building looks today from approximately the same angle:

Good morning! Wishing you a happy Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 from all of us at Viewing NYC!

Here's what the weather looks like in the City right now.