New York, NY - Obama Presidency Oral History New York, NY Index / Locations Transcripts (70) Andrew Stern ...lucrative market, generally speaking; New York City . But you would go across the river t... ...the Class A large office buildings in New York City , organized as SEIU had fo... Aneesh Chopra ...locked them in a room, and said, almost Manhattan Project–like, “Go invent this thing... Art and Helen Tanderup ...in Los Angeles pretty soon. It was in New York City . It was in Florida. It was in Sout... ...Protect, and then actually went on to New York City with them to do some press there. Bu... ...you to the [People's] Climate March in New York City .” And I said, “I can't go. We've got ... ...be there.” [Laughs] So we went in New York City and marched with the Indigenous bloc... Bill McKibben ...way that, in fact, even a place like Manhattan , that seems able to mint money an... ...of thousands of people gathered in New York City as part of the People's Climate March... Carol Browner ...intended them, the damage to Lower Manhattan would have been different. That is... Carolyn Britton ...COVID-19 pandemic, we're both based in New York City , and Dr. Britton, thank you for takin... ...societies—I started locally, in the Manhattan Central Medical Society, and in th... ...But then, nobody was going to run for Manhattan Central, and they said, “Well, Carolyn... ...in that. And so leadership, I went in Manhattan Central; the same thing happened at th... ...an African American physician here in New York City . So I think that I'm not surprised. ... Courtney Hight ...Hight today from my apartment in West Harlem , New York, because the COVID-1... Don Verrilli ...today from my apartment in West Harlem , New York, because of the ongoin... Frances Beinecke ...job, actually, was working for the New York City Health Department, testing kids fo... ...justice communities, particularly West Harlem Environmental Action early on over th... ...of historic. That community of West Harlem bearing the brunt of New York sewage... ...attended the People's Climate March on Manhattan 's Avenue of the Americas, and at th... Kate Orff ...and design studio with offices in Manhattan and New Orleans. SCAPE's submission t... ...of the COVID-19 pandemic. I'm in Morningside Heights and Kate is joining me from Fores... ...transition point for me was a study of Jamaica Bay , which is a big salt marsh here in Ne... ...Bay, which is a big salt marsh here in New York City , known by most as probably being nex... ...a mapping and a writing project about Jamaica Bay . And because I learned, from listenin... ...and the scientists at Columbia, that Jamaica Bay was rapidly disappearing. So it wa... ...these communities that are living by Jamaica Bay to experience sea level rise an... ...of the culprits in the drowning of the Jamaica Bay marshes was sea level rise. It's kin... ...come back to these themes and work in Jamaica Bay and around [unclear] conversation. Bu... ...of climate and sea level rise on New York City . I was put into this environment an... ...it was pulling together the work from Jamaica Bay and the insights gained on how socia... ...time. So that might mean, for the Jamaica Bay project, reading about the Lenape i... ...project, reading about the Lenape in Jamaica Bay and the settlements there and th... ...going to build a wall around Lower Manhattan , but we're not necessarily going to d... ...action that actually shouldn't be in Jamaica Bay , even, in the first place, but becaus... ...we're going to put a seawall in at Jamaica Bay . What happens behind that seawall whe... ...fact, one of my last two projects was Jamaica Bay , which, of course, was nearest an... ...as far as Bridgeport, Connecticut; Jamaica Bay . So we visited all of these sites an... ...ecological structures. So we modeled Jamaica Bay with a shallowing concept. We modele... ...to sign off, the state had to sign off. New York City , which is the beach, the Tottenvill... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Healthcare Healthcare Black Politics Coming soon Human Rights Coming soon Atlantic Relations Coming soon