Next week will mark the three-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy’s landfall in New York City—but whether the city is any safer than it was the day before the deadly storm depends on whom you ask. “I’m here to say: yes, we are safer now than we were before Sandy,” Daniel Zarrilli, director of recovery and resiliency for Mayor Bill de Blasio, told a City Council committee today. “And we also have more to do before we’ll be satisfied.” Unsurprisingly, members of the Council representing some of the neighborhoods hardest hit by the storm did not quite agree.
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