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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently revised flood maps covering sections of New York City and Westchester. During Hurricane Sandy, raging floodwaters went far beyond the borders of the danger zones drawn on earlier maps. New York’s flood maps hadn’t been updated since the 1980s and do not reflect today’s risks. The new interactive map that FEMA has issued shows double the number of structures at risk of flooding from another Hurricane Sandy, including in southern Brooklyn, the Rockaways, and Staten Island.
