Environment
Despite Sandy, Plans for Huge Staten Island Ferris Wheel Roll Forward
Weighing jobs vs. climate change in New York's hardest hit borough.
Staten Island got hammered by Superstorm Sandy. The storm surge swept many homes from their foundations and carried them out into the salt marshes. Water poured into countless basements in shoreline communities. Some 23 people died, the highest toll in any of New York City’s boroughs.
More than two months after the storm, Staten Island is still struggling to imagine what the new normal will look like. Many people have yet to return to their homes, with some even being housed in trailers in Connecticut by a charity organization. So you might think that this wouldn’t be the time to talk about building the world’s tallest Ferris wheel in an area near the Staten Island Ferry Terminal that got three to four feet of storm surge.