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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.’
The New York Building Congress says there must be comprehensive, regional planning to meet the increased risk of flooding—and imaginative thinking about how to live amid higher waters.
The housing news you might have missed this week.
‘The plan that is in progress right now is the right plan, it’s one that is viable, it’s moving.’
John Raskin talked about the big problem that unites all of the other challenges facing the subway, buses and commuter trains: The lack of accountability in the transit system as it now exists.
This year’s update left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, from loft-tenant advocacy groups, to North Brooklyn community groups worried about displacement, to elected officials who say they tried to craft a fair bill.
Picture the Homeless, a homeless-led grassroots organization is raising money to keep the doors open.
Two community boards have approved the plan, but with conditions, and some neighbors are still stunned the city dropped a plan developed in cooperation with local stakeholders.
‘Treating the Amazon HQ2 project as a proxy for all new development was an error in judgement.’