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“Embracing nature-based solutions, leaning on digital tools to power water management, replacing aging infrastructure, and, importantly, fostering collaboration between city agencies and private partners are essential to tackle these challenges…

ByOzlen Ozkurt 0Comments

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Nov 2024

This Map Can Help You Find Out If Your Home Has Lead Pipes

New York City has over 124,000 buildings with lead pipes, city data analyzed by the New York League of Conservation Voters shows. Here’s how you can look up your address.

ByMariana Simões 0Comments

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Oct 2024

Climate and Environment Government Housing and Homelessness

How Prepared is New York City to Face the Next Big Storm?

The comptroller’s office says some inroads have been made but “far more is needed to be fully prepared for heavy storms.”

ByMariana Simões 0Comments

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Sep 2024

Climate and Environment Government

City Sees More Sewer Backups Due to Increased Rainfall, New Data Shows

Sewer backups on city infrastructure jumped nearly 32 percent during the most recent fiscal year that ended in June, the result of more wet weather: the five boroughs were doused…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Apr 2023

Government Opinion

Opinion: How Paris is Out-Swimming New York City

“As yet another hot and humid summer approaches, exacerbated by the prospect of rising temperatures, we have fewer public pools per capita than any other major U.S. city and 520…

ByKara Meyer 0Comments

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Feb 2023

In Depth Justice Transportation

Residents Living Near Queens Waste Facilities Hope Legal Settlement Finally Clears the Air

For two decades, residents in Jamaica’s Bricktown say they’ve had to contend with the stench and debris from unenclosed waste transfer facilities nearby. A settlement reached with the facilities’ operators…

ByNikol Mudrová

ByMaggie Geiler

ByAnnie Jonas 1Comment

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Jan 2023

Climate and Environment Education Government

An Overlooked Climate Solution? Greener Playgrounds

Across the country, cities are transforming asphalt schoolyards into spongy, shady community centers. The new playground at PS 184M Shuang Wen School in Manhattan’s Chinatown, for example, has a porous…

ByMarianne Dhenin 1Comment

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Oct 2022

Climate and Environment Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth

Sewer Backups, Increasing from Climate Change, are Costing City’s Homeowners

About 20 houses in South Jamaica are prone to sewer backups every few months, say homeowners, some of whom have dealt with the issue for more than a decade. But…

ByRoxanne Scott 0Comments

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Sep 2022

Climate and Environment Government Housing and Homelessness Transportation

Sewer Backups Nearly Doubled in NYC Last Year Due to Climate Change

The city’s aging infrastructure combined with more intense rainfall is resulting in more backups, which took on average more than 15 hours to resolve during the last fiscal year that…

ByLiz Donovan 3Comments

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Sep 2022

Climate and Environment Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion Transportation

Opinion: NYC’s Aging Water Infrastructure Needs a Climate-Change Upgrade

“Water main breaks have caused outages across my community and contamination from old pipes have left homes with rust colored water for days…The people of New York City deserve functioning…

ByShahana Hanif 1Comment

Opinion: Fortifying NYC Against Droughts and Floods