Climate-justice scholar Kian Goh on New York’s challenges nine years after Sandy
When Red Hook was cut off from the rest of the city during Superstorm Sandy in 2012, community groups relied on their histories of organizing to form self-reliant networks. Photo: Tyler Sparks Nine years ago today, Superstorm Sandy made landfall in New York City, killing 44 people, destroying 70,000 homes, and causing $19 billion in damage.
The city is finally looking to the strength of these networks during actual emergencies, talking about going door-to-door to make sure that people can get out of apartments that are not safe. There were floods in places that were quite unexpected when Ida hit. Totally not places that one would say, “Oh, it’s low-lying, coastal, it’s prone to storm surges.” These were floods happening in the middle of Brooklyn and Queens. For folks who have been studying the geology or the infrastructure of the built environment, it wasn’t that surprising. If you paid attention to where some of the infrastructural inadequacies are, you would know that there are a lot of drainage issues.
Every time we have a flooding event, everyone says, “Well, if only we were more like the Dutch,” and those are the consultants New York has largely hired for its resilience plans. But these stronger storms and heavy-rainfall events are happening in part because New York is now a humid, subtropical climate, more like the Southeast Asian countries you talk about in your book.
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