City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York City
Advocates, Lawmakers ‘Baffled’ By Exclusions in Basement Legalization Plan
“I’m surprised, I’m baffled, I’m angry,” said City Councilmember Sandy Nurse, who represents East New York, where the city ran an earlier basement conversion pilot in 2019. The area is excluded from the new program, which will only apply to 15 of the city’s 59 community districts, leaving out many of the neighborhoods hardest-hit by floods during Hurricane Ida. Read the story.
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