Brian Lear on WNYC, now our Climate Story of the Week, which we do every Tuesday on the show this year,

and we focus this week on Southeast Queens, where climate change has brought about what some residents are calling a double whammy of heavy rains and high tides,

translate that to flooding in many homes predominantly owned by black New Yorkers in Southeast Queens.

And so joining us now to discuss how residents they are at the forefront of some of the

worst impacts of climate change, including the property damage they're experiencing, and efforts the city has

made to combat these inequities and whether they're enough and whether there's an

environmental justice issue here is Roxanne L Scott independent journalist working on a series

with the New York Amsterdam news about climate change in southeast Queens. Roxanne, thanks so much for coming on. Welcome to W. W. Noyce.

Thank you so much, Brian. And you write about a few places in Queens, but you begin your

latest piece on Brookville Boulevard or Snake Road as locals call it, which you write has always

been prone to high water. For listeners not familiar can you describe Snake Road

what neighborhood it's actually a part of who lives there and what happens when it rains?

Sure, so Snake Road, officially known as Brookville Boulevard,

snakes or wines through wetlands.

And so what that means is that about a mile,

almost a mile of that road starts in about Rosedale,

the neighborhood of Rosedale,

and it takes you across through the wetlands

and you can say very easy way to get to the rockaways

and what have you.

But because it snakes through this wetlands,

it is prone to flooding, and also because it's kind of it's low

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