Ten Years After: Charting a Region’s Recovery
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The Ten Years After project studies and analyzes the long-term impact of billion-dollar disasters ten years after the fact.
Most recently, the researchers at New York University’s School of Global Public Health described the long-term impact of Hurricane Sandy on 18 counties in New York and New Jersey.
The analysis reveals a story of short-term destruction and hardship, followed by robust recovery and resilience on other measures, suggesting that the lasting impact of Superstorm Sandy on the region and its population was muted.
The immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy was dramatic: the storm damaged or destroyed 650,000 homes, took more than 150 lives, and generated nearly $82 billion in damage. The new report, Ten Years After Sandy: Charting a Region’s Recovery, looked at the extent to which systems in the country’s largest metropolitan area were disrupted with enduring consequences over the next decade.
