Change Quote by Bill de Blasio

These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future,…

— Harold Ford, Jr

“We were making some progress on climate-change adaptation in the late 1990s,” Klaus Jacob observed. “But September 11th set us back a decade on…

— Eric Klinenberg

Over 6 million people were evacuated from New Jersey ahead of the hurricane. And now, three of them have gone back.

— Jay Leno

I think anyone living in New York City during the dark ages that we called Hurricane Sandy can reflect on the unexpected state of…

— Ryan Serhant

Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or…

— Michael Bloomberg

When Superstorm Sandy churned up fourteen-foot walls of water that slammed New York's coastal communities in October 2012, they also washed away any false…

— Maya Wiley

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.

— Mira Nair

The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first…

— Anonymous

We're looking at a much worse [Hurricane] risk than people were thinking about a year ago ...some places are going to become uninsurable.

— Judith Curry

I think the sensibilities of having grown up in Upstate New York and the concerns, the fears, the hopes of the people there are…

— David Muir

We're downtown New Yorkers and had very close proximity to the events of September 11th. Like everybody on the island of Manhattan, we were…

— Mike D

Puerto Rico, within the span of two weeks, received two Category 4-5 hurricanes. That has never happened anywhere. The devastation has been enormous.

— Ricardo Rossello