The Bronx deserves better. We're making sure it gets it.
#NOT62 brings together Bronx residents, policymakers, and health institutions around a five-year plan to close the health gap — because a healthy Bronx should not be a ranking fantasy, it should be the block we all live on.
Five Action Areas. One Bronx.
Our policy agenda targets the structural drivers of the Bronx health gap — food access, mental health, workforce, health care, and housing — over the next five years, 2026–2030.
Healthy Food Access & Nutrition
Building awareness of food insecurity's health impact and increasing access to healthy, affordable food — 37% of Bronx residents are food insecure, the highest rate in NYC.
Our Story
Bronx was placed 62nd of 62 — but stayed there every single year.
In 2009, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation began ranking every New York county on health outcomes. The Bronx placed 62nd of 62 — and stayed there every single year.
Then in 2014, residents, businesses, health care providers, community organizations, and elected officials came together to change that conversation. #NOT62 formed as a catalyst for partners across every sector — housing, food access, mental health, health care, workforce — to take real action on the health of Bronx residents, not just discuss it.
It worked. Bronx residents spent less time in hospitals, lived longer, and lived healthier lives — until 2020, when COVID-19 devastated that progress and exacerbated every existing condition in the borough. Now, with a renewed five-year Action Plan and a steering committee spanning the Bronx Borough President's Office, Bronx Health REACH, Montefiore, and community partners across the borough, #NOT62 is doing it again.
