Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City will get at least $ 1.6 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to help four public hospitals build infrastructure to resist storms after they were damaged during Sandy.
The money will go to Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, Bellevue and Metropolitan hospital centers in Manhattan, and Coler Specialty Hospital on Roosevelt Island. Funds will go to reimburse the hospitals for rebuilding after Sandy and to install floodwalls, flood-proof elevators and new pumps.
“This money will allow us to do the kinds of things we know are necessary for resiliency, replace and improve generators and put them in safer positions, new pumps, flood-proof elevators. All the things that will allow our hospitals to keep going through thick and thin,” said de Blasio.
Sen. Charles Schumer attended the announcement and called the funding “a massive shot of adrenaline” for the hospitals” recovery.
“We will take what we learned from that experience and build back better and stronger,” Schumer said.
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