It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC. Good morning and happy Tuesday, everyone.

Many of you know that on Tuesdays we do our climate story of the week on this show.

Often that's later in the program and just one segment. Today we lead do our climate story of the week on this show. Often that's later in the program and

just one segment. Today we lead with our climate story of the week and we will take it in two

parts with two guests. First, New York City deputy mayor, Maria Torres-Springer on yesterday's

announcement of the city's brand new offshore windport at the South Brooklyn Marine

Terminal. And then George Packer from the Atlantic with an epic new article. Have you seen any of

this yet? You probably haven't had time to read the whole thing in the July, August issue of the

Atlantic called the Most American City searching for the nation's future in Phoenix, Arizona.

That one is about climate in the land of increasingly common triple-digit temperatures,

but also about the future of our culture and democracy in one of the ultimate 2024 swing

states. So George Packer, in about a half hour, with that climate-linked sort of

theory of everything article from the Atlantic. But we start here in the city with the Brooklyn

windport and Maria Torres-Springer, Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development, and Workforce. We will

also touch with her on some of the housing and economic development and workforce. We will also touch with her on some of the housing and economic

development and workforce news, including City Council approving some of the mayor's city of

yes, housing construction proposals, and also the congestion pricing postponement bombshell from

Governor Hockel and the implications for the city as the

Adams administration sees it. Deputy Mayor, always good to have you on. Welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you so much for having me, Brian. So tell us about this groundbreaking at the Brooklyn Marine

Terminal yesterday. What did you and your colleagues do there?

Well, we were thrilled to be able to break ground on the nation's really largest offshore windport at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal. It's a 73-acre site. It'll be New York's first

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