"I don’t think a day goes by [when] people don’t worry"

"As its name suggests, Sea Gate is a gated community. Before the storm it was known for its safety. Its beaches are private, and separating the neighborhood's relatively affluent suburbs from Coney Island's high rises and public housing is a tall chain link fence. Residents could enter from two locations, both of which were monitored closely by Sea Gate's own police force. Today that security is in tatters. The once fortified perimeter is full of holes, which Maldonado suspects the looters used to enter Sea Gate. One of the community's entrances has been closed and residents driving into Sea Gate on Thursday were greeted by police officers warming themselves around a burning garbage bin." (x)

"Today, Sea Gate is still stuck in a middle ground—not quite rebuilt, not quite abandoned. There are empty lots all along its coast, or houses still vacant, and just next door, a brand new building. One house might have a nice sea wall, but if its neighbor only has a bunch of scrap wood, both places are going to flood together." (x)

"Are Sea Gate, Coney Island, and Brighton Beach defensible in the face of the probabilities associated with climate change? “Absolutely not,” says Keenan. “It’ll be a completely spatial segregation of the haves and have nots around their buildings’ engineering capacity and the weather.”" (x)