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New York floods: Basement rescues spark climate change concerns
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New York floods: Basement rescues spark climate change concerns

As flash floods inundated New York City, Mayor Eric Adams said: “If you’re home, stay home.” But for those living in below-ground apartments in basements and cellars, that was not an option. An estimated 100,000 New Yorkers reside in a vast network of illegal basement dwellings that the impacts of climate change are remaking into...