Jeffries: NY flood problems need NY solutions
Rather than treating Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island as generic disaster sites, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), when examining areas that have been devastated by Superstorm Sandy, should look for “New York solutions to New York problems.”
So said Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn-Queens) at a community press briefing Monday in his office at the Shirley Chisholm State Office Building in Fort Greene.
“New York City isn’t a typical hurricane site,” he said, pointing out that hurricanes usually hit the Gulf States, where conditions are very different.