Tag: FEMA
Trio Sean Blaise, Stacks the MenACE and TrisNev released this “Fuck Off The Rock” rap video as an angry response to FEMA’s failings in fixing their Broad Channel and Rockaway post-Hurricane Sandy, and to the gentrifiers. According to DNAinfo who spoke with these young men (most are current or upcoming college freshman), the single calls out FEMA and the “‘contrived […]
According to new data issued by the Bloomberg administration Monday, many more people will be living in high flood-risk areas of New York City in the coming decades. Currently, 398,000 people live in NYC’s 100-year flood plain–the area of the city with a one percent chance of flooding in a given year. Bloomberg’s team expects […]
Though every New York City school shuttered by Hurricane Sandy have since reopened, 50 schools across the five boroughs are still missing classroom tools that were lost in the storm, and only 25 of those have gotten a visit from FEMA. And though that federal agency will contribute more than half of the city’s $200 […]
