Liz Koslov Quoted in Curbed New York: NYC’s Coastline Could be Underwater by 2100. Why are we Still Building There?

Koslov is working on a book about Staten Island communities that rejected the rebuilding narrative. She recalls the first community meeting she attended in the borough, a few months after Sandy: “It was striking,” she says. “A church basement packed to the gills with residents affected by the storm, overwhelmingly saying, ‘We don’t wanna live here anymore, no one should live in these neighborhoods anymore, buy us out and return this land to mother nature.’”