Inside NYC’s first ‘stress-free zone,’ where new moms get free massages, mental-health screenings
Cristiana Gigina
The city has created a so-called “stress-free zone” in a low-income Brooklyn neighborhood where new parents can get everything from free massages to mental-health screenings to combat maternal mortality. Brownsville’s “Neighborhood Stress-Free Zone” pilot — located at the Department of Health’s Neighborhood Health Action Center Family Wellness Suite — opened in September to combat a deeply disturbing increase in the rate, which has been fueled by overdoses and suicides, officials said. “We in
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