It’s been 10 years since Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012. New York City and State were forced to consider the climate crisis and its impact on communities left woefully unprepared in coastal neighborhoods.
In Queens, many say that Black homeowners were left out ‘on the bayside’ near Far Rockaway and the city will not reach climate goals with such slow progress.
“We’re standing on the terrace, looking at the storm as the ocean starts to rise, the Bay starts to rise, and the water just started to elevate in the streets and you heard people screaming,” said Watson who decided to wait out the storm from her family’s 9th floor apartment instead of her ground floor home.
The focus of Sandy recovery has primarily been on the Rockaway boardwalk or on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, said Anderson, but not on helping families of color“I think it’s a racial justice issue,” said Anderson. “If the bay was as profitable as the boardwalk it would’ve been fixed 10 years ago. That’s the reality. But because it’s poor, working class, civil servants, Black, brown, and Asian, it is the way that it is today.
Watson’s story about help coming months to years later unfortunately isn’t uncommon, nor is cold or dismissive treatment from government agencies.
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