People in NYC Drowned in Their Basement Apartments
People, including a two-year-old child, drowned in the flash flooding two nights ago in Woodside Queens. (See here)
“A 46-year-old woman and her 22-year-old son died when floodwaters rushed into their basement home and trapped them.
NYC was set to have a pilot program in East New York to make basement apartments safer, but the Council gutted the spending during the pandemic and never restored it. (May 2020 – see here)
In September 2020, NYC Council was more interested in studying drones and didn’t do anything to restore the funding for the basement apartment program. (See here) Lobbyists were able to make a push before communities during the pandemic.
Justin Brannan sponsored the lobbyists bill in 2018, the first month he was in office. (See here)
In a 2019 article, it stated: “According to the city’s lobbying database, each of the companies have lobbied the City Council on Brannan’s bill. That seemed to surprise Brannan a bit – “I understand why those guys would support it, but this isn’t like a coordinated effort” – because he hasn’t done much lobbying for the bill. (Source) By 2020, Eric Adams and Justin Brannan were pushing for that drone bill….even during a global pandemic. Government Tech doesn’t mention the lobbyists behind the bill. (See here)
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marlene
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