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Four years after Hurricane Ida’s deadly floods, reporter Yiyan Zheng returns to Flushing — and finds the most vulnerable are still being left in the dark, cut off from life-saving information.

本集由陽邊（Sunnyside）居民及社區記者鄭怡嫣製作。她在災後四年重返當年因洪水罹難的冷鴻升一家所在社區以及東法拉盛，走訪當地租客與房東，記錄他們對那一夜的回憶與反思，並探討洪水帶來的持續性衝擊。節目同時納入非營利機構、氣候專家與政府官員的深度訪談，呈現移民社群在資訊不平等與氣候風險夾擊下的脆弱處境。

Links for further reading:

1. What Remains of Kissena Creek
2. They Put Everything Into Their Homes. Not One Was Spared in the Flood.
3. The flood that drowned American dreams
4. Queens Memory Podcast Season 3, "Our Major Minor Voices," Episode 5: Invisible Homeless
5. They had to make homes of illegal basement apartments. Ida's surge killed them.
6. 3.6 Billion in Sales of 1-3 Family Homes at High Risk
7. New Rules on Property Condition Disclosure and Flood Risk
8. Stay Informed with Emergency Alerts! - Notify NYC
9. What To Do After A Flood - NYSDEC
10. Wettest and Driest Months at Central Park (1869 to Present)
11. Increasing extreme hourly precipitation risk for New York City after Hurricane Ida

Listen to a sneak preview of Episode 3 - "After Ida: Left in the Dark."

Four years after Hurricane Ida’s deadly floods, reporter Yiyan Zheng returns to Flushing — and finds the most vulnerable are still being left in the dark, cut off from life-saving information.

Season four of the Queens Memory Podcast, brings you "Memories of Water," which examines the impacts of climate change on local communities in the borough.

In this second episode, local teens take the mic to ask questions about climate change. Recorded at the Flushing Library and produced by Queens-based audio producer, Rebecca Seidel, the episode features youth-led interviews with staff from the Queens Botanical Garden, uncovering the roots of flooding in Queens and what we can all do to build a climate-resilient future.

Links for further reading:

1. Three found dead in basement of Flushing apartment in aftermath of Hurricane Ida flooding
2. Sustainable Landscapes at Queens Botanical Garden (QBG)
3. Urban Advantage at QBG
4. Newtown Creek Alliance’s website
5. Hidden Waters Blog
6. Flushing Meadows Corona Park History: The Tale of Two World's Fairs (Waterfront Alliance)
7. How to Steward Rain Gardens in New York City
8. Guardians of Flushing Bay: Green Infrastructure
9. Learn more about Climate Ready at Queens Public Library
10. Queens Public Library’s Teen Centers

Season four of the Queens Memory Podcast, brings you "Memories of Water," which examines the impacts of climate change on local communities in the borough.

In this first episode, titled "A Forgotten Place," producer Roxanne Scott takes us to neighborhoods in Southeast Queens, where we meet neighbors who are organizing and demanding accountability for the decades-long flooding that has occurred in the area. 

Links for further reading:

1. In 15 Years, 80,000 Homes in the New York area May Be Lost to Flooding
2. City Announces Progress on $1.9 Billion Commitment to Alleviate Flooding in Southeast Queens
3. DEP projects in Southeast Queens
4. New York City Stormwater Resiliency Plan
5. What is inland flooding?
6. Sewer Backups, Increasing from Climate Change, are Costing City’s Homeowners
7. Testimony by Linda Dada on Sewage Infrastructure in South Jamaica
8. Why One Queens Block Has Flooded For Decades
9. Mayor’s Maps Shows Most of Ida’s Victims Lives Where Rainfall Was Riskiest
10. As NYC Releases New Flood Maps, Here’s What You Can Do Before The Water Starts Rising
11. Double-whammy: How Heavy Rains and High Tides Hurt NYC’s Black and Brown Neighborhoods
12. NYC Real Estate on the Brink: $3.6 Billion in 1-3 Family Home Sales in 2023 at Risk of Flooding
13. Southeast Queens Residents Environmental Justice Coalition (SQREJC)
14. NYC Council Votes on Legislation to Establish a Southeast Queens Flooding Adaptation Task Force
15. NYLPI Celebrates the Passage of 1067-B, A Major Victory for Flood Resilience and Environmental Justice in NYC
16. Support Queens Residents Facing Sewer Backups
17. Learn more about Climate Ready at Queens Public Library

Sneak preview of episode 1 - "A Forgotten Place" - as producer Roxanne Scott takes us to neighborhoods in Southeast Queens.