Brooklyn pol tapped to head new climate committee says city must focus on all waterfronts
A Brooklyn lawmaker who was recently tapped to chair a City Council committee preparing New York for the devastating effects of climate change vowed that his panel will not be focused solely on Manhattan.
Councilmember Justin Brannan, the chairperson of the new Committee on Resiliency and Waterfronts, said he would be holding hearings on climate change in all five boroughs.
“These days you hear a lot about Lower Manhattan but not much about Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. Meanwhile, seven years after the worst natural disaster in the city’s history, many on Staten Island are still recovering and rebuilding,” said Brannan, a Democrat who represents Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and parts of Bensonhurst. “We are a city of waterfronts – and of the five boroughs, four of them are islands.”