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🗓️ 19 February 2024
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0:00.0 | Hi, it's Amy Westerfeld, back in your feed with a podcast I think you'll enjoy. |
0:06.0 | This show's called Hazard NYC, and it's from our friends at The City. |
0:12.0 | In this episode, Samantha Maldonado, senior reporter at the City and |
0:16.4 | independent journalist Jordan Gas Pore, take listeners to the Gowanus Canal |
0:22.3 | where pollution from an industrial past haunts its |
0:25.7 | redeveloped future and current flooding is expected to get worse. Check out Hazard NYC, a four-part limited series exploring how climate |
0:36.6 | change affects the city's Superfund sites from FAQ NYC. It's produced by the non-profit news outlet, The City. |
0:46.0 | Find Hazard NYC under the FAQ NYC banner. |
0:54.0 | It was a filthy contaminated cesspool. |
0:57.0 | All we had to do was look at the water. |
0:58.0 | The smell was so bad that it could make you want to vomit. |
1:12.0 | This is Hazard NYC, a special mini-series from FAQ NYC that explores some of New York City's most toxic sites. Places so contaminated the federal government saw fit to step in. |
1:15.3 | And climate change adds to the danger. |
1:19.8 | It takes decades sometimes to do these cleanups. |
1:22.4 | We really need to figure out how to speed those things up because the clock's ticking. |
1:27.0 | I'm Samantha Maldonado, a reporter with the city. |
1:31.0 | And I'm Jordan Goss-iré, an independent journalist. |
1:34.0 | Follow us on a tour of New York City's dirtiest places. |
1:38.0 | And what's at stake with the cleanups before it's too late. |
1:41.0 | Listen to Hazard NYC, beginning in February, right here on FAQ NYC. |
1:47.4 | Hazard NYC was made possible by support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. |
1:52.0 | The project was produced in partnership |
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