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New York City’s public transit system has gotten New Yorkers where they need to go and home again for over a century. For our public transit system to …

The urban heat island effect in NYC

In New York City and across the country, more people die from extreme heat than from all other natural disasters combined. To understand how to keep …

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A region’s climate is characterized by its usual weather conditions, seasons, and patterns in extreme weather events like heat waves, droughts, …

Protecting New Yorkers from extreme heat

Hot weather is dangerous. In New York City and across the country, more people on average die from extreme heat each year than from all other natural …