When monster storms strike New York City, Lower Manhattan is often a prime target.  Sandy was the perfect example, as the storm surge wiped out subway stations and riverfront shops and apartments. 

Yuh-Line Niou represents Lower Manhattan in the Assembly. She is also the Chair of the Subcommittee on Catastrophic Natural Disasters, so preparing for the next storm is in both of her job descriptions.  She joins In Focus to talk about what needs to be done to protect the city and its residents, as climate change drives bigger, more vicious and more frequent storms. 

She acknowledged that, while New Yorkers heard boatloads of promises to make the city safer from storms after Superstorm Sandy, when just the remnants of Ida passed over NYC, dropping a record seven inches of rain in a day, the effects were the same: flooded basements and subways, billions of dollars in destruction and 17 deaths, 11 of them people trapped in their basement apartments. She talked about what steps the legislature is planning to, finally, take to build a safer New York when disaster strikes.