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Speaker 1: Hi, It's Amy Westervelt back in your feed with a

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Speaker 1: podcast I think you'll enjoy. This show's called Hazard NYC

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Speaker 1: and it's from our friends at the City. In this episode,

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Speaker 1: Samantha Maldonado, senior reporter at the City, and independent journalist

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Speaker 1: Jordan Gaspere take listeners to the gowanis Canal, where pollution

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Speaker 1: from an industrial past haunts its redeveloped future and current

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Speaker 1: flooding is expected to get worse. Check out Hazard NYC,

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Speaker 1: a four part limited series exploring how climate change affects

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Speaker 1: the city's super fun to sites from FAQ NYC. It's

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Speaker 1: produced by the nonprofit news outlet The City Fine Hazard

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Speaker 1: NYC under the FAQ NYC banner. It was a filthy,

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Speaker 1: contaminated cesspool. All we had to do is look at

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Speaker 1: the water.

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Speaker 2: The smell was so bad that it could make you

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Speaker 2: want to vomit. This is Hazard NYC, a special mini

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Speaker 2: series from FAQNYC that explores some of New York City's

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Speaker 2: most toxic sites.

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Speaker 3: Places so contaminated the federal government saw fit to step in.

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Speaker 2: And climate change adds to the danger.

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Speaker 1: It takes decades sometimes to do these cleanups. We really

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Speaker 1: need to figure out how to speed those things up,

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Speaker 1: because from clocks sticken.

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Speaker 3: I'm Samantha Maldonado, a reporter with the City, and I'm

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Speaker 3: Jordan Gospore, an independent journalist. Follow us on a tour

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Speaker 3: of New York City's dirtiest places.

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Speaker 2: And what's at stake with the cleanups before it's too late.

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Speaker 3: Listen to Hazard NYC beginning in February right here on

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Speaker 3: FAQ NYC.

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Speaker 2: Hazard NYC was made possible by support from the Fund

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Speaker 2: for Investigative Journalism. The project was produced in partnership with

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Speaker 2: McGraw Center for Business Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School

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Speaker 2: of Journalism and as part of the Pulitzer Centers Connected

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Speaker 2: Coastlines initiative. Hazard NYC is sponsored by Brooklyn Solar Works.