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Interview with Lisa Cowan, Board President of the Red Hook Initiative
"So they went in, they opened the doors, people immediately came in to start charging their phones and figure out what was going on, and both people who were living in the neighborhood and in the...
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Interview with Devin Balkind, Sarapis & Occupy Sandy
"And it was pretty frightening, because a disaster takes place and an inevitable outcome is that a lot of organizations that don’t normally communicate with each other are going to communicate with...
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Interview with Josh Bisker, Time’s Up and NYU Office of Government and...
"Spaces where it was free reign, where the community could organize what it needed, as it needed, seem to create the opportunity for resiliency and health. Here with the Church of St. Luke and St....
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Interview with Cecil Scheib, Managing Director for the NYC Building...
"Well there’s several levels of building resilience. So one thing that our current code handles very comprehensively is that a building be resilient enough that after an event, people can get out of it...
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Interview with Adam Lisberg, MTA
"And then you take a look at something like the South Ferry Subway Station, which was built for $540 million and opened in 2009 or 2010 and it flooded floor to ceiling like a fish tank. So, how do we...
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Interview with Organizer for OccupyData
"The data was not looking good— a lot of it hadn’t been digitized.A lot of the way data was collected, various formats, various granularities, it wasn’t standardized, so even in common boxes you could...
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Interview with Justin Wedes, Occupy Sandy volunteer
"Responding to people in need was exactly the calling of Occupy Wall Street-- to be the first people on the ground in our communities to stand up and say we’re not waiting for FEMA, we’re not waiting...
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Interview with Jessica Lawrence, Executive Director of New York Tech Meetup
"There were three methods of getting information. There was the formal form, which I would say actually was the smallest thing in terms of the way that people got in touch with us. And that was more of...
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Interview with Rockaways hub volunteer & canvasing coordinator
"Volunteers would say, 'oh, she doesn't need that much stuff. People are lying to get more stuff and hoard it,' which is upsetting to see, especially because in the beginning, there were more donations...
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Interview with new resident of the Rockaways
"If you were someone who rented, or someone didn't have, who didn't work, or didn't have much, you were actually cared for, but if you actually did work, and you did, you know, have insurance, it...
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