Weather

Storms, Heat Waves and Car Crashes: Inside Con Ed’s Summer Emergency Drill

June 5, 2023, 5:00 a.m.June 2, 2023, 6:14 p.m.

Anticipating possible storms and heat waves that strain the electrical grid, the utility company ran a simulation of a disruptive event to practice its response.

311

Raccoons Eating Lasagna, Ghosts in the Window: The Wildest 311 Calls of Last 20 Years

March 9, 2023, 5:39 p.m.March 9, 2023, 7:57 p.m.

New York City’s municipal information hotline fields questions and reports on items from the mundane, like illegal parking, to the bizarre, including a few calls about dog dependents, aliens and ghosts.

Housing

Feds and City End Emergency Housing For Families Displaced by Hurricane Ida

Feb. 8, 2023, 5:03 a.m.Feb. 7, 2023, 10:50 p.m.

Dozens of families who fled flooded apartments have to leave the Lower Manhattan hotel they call home by Feb. 28.

Weather

NYC Breaks a 50-year Record for Snowless Winter

Jan. 31, 2023, 10:00 p.m.Jan. 31, 2023, 10:09 p.m.

The city’s longest-ever stretch without snow previously ran from 2019 to the end of 2020. We matched and exceeded that record at the beginning of 2022.

Climate Change

See Walls: Army Corps’ Citywide Coastal Storm Plan Takes Shape, Steals Views

Jan. 27, 2023, 5:01 a.m.Jan. 27, 2023, 8:40 a.m.

A series of renderings offer a glimpse at a proposal that could be what a resiliency expert called “the largest transformation of our waterfront since the Robert Moses era.”

Transportation

There Are Only Three Paths Out of the Rockaways — And One of Them Is Crumbling

Nov. 1, 2022, 5:00 a.m.Oct. 31, 2022, 9:11 p.m.

Cross Bay Boulevard, a main evacuation route for residents of Broad Channel, is still in bad shape a decade after Superstorm Sandy.

MTA

Sandy Effects Still Washing Over Rockaway Subway Lines With Delayed Projects, New Work

Oct. 28, 2022, 10:38 a.m.May 19, 2023, 1:53 p.m.

Ten years after the superstorm of the century, the MTA isn’t done with efforts to protect its waterfront routes.

Weather

Ten Years Ago, Occupy Sandy Didn’t Just Help New Yorkers, It Redefined Disaster Response

Oct. 28, 2022, 5:00 a.m.May 19, 2023, 1:54 p.m.

With roots in Occupy Wall Street, the spontaneous relief effort showcased how mutual aid groups can step into the breach when traditional organizations are slow to act.