No sure explanations, yet: "Homicide, AIDS, and drugs are characteristically New York ways to die young, of course, so it’s no surprise that when we sharply de

No sure explanations, yet: "Homicide, AIDS, and drugs are characteristically New York ways to die young, of course, so it’s no surprise that when we sharply decreased the fatalities they caused, we caught up with the rest of the country. But here’s the thing: It’s not just that we’ve conquered these urban blights. Cancer and cardiac arrest are down, too. The number of people in the city dying from heart disease has dropped by a third in the last twenty years, and cancer rates have slid by nearly a fifth. And again in these cases, New York is getting healthier faster than the rest of the U.S." Proposed: More walking; better health care access; less crime -> attracting more wealthy-healthy residents, bans (like smoking, trans fats)... They're making NYC sound like what we always thought California was supposed to be. But neither NY state nor Calif can muster effective state legislatures. Oh, well, there's another post waiting to be written.