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The Washington Irving Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, one of the cooling centers in Bushwick.
Data from 2013 indicates that some New Yorkers are more vulnerable to the heath risks of heat that others. People aged 65 or older made up a third of the 26 heat-related deaths that year.
‘Transforming the food system has great potential to sequester carbon, expand well-paid, create clean energy jobs and help reverse the public health crises of food insecurity and diet-related diseases.’
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