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A Walk through Brooklyn – A Realization of New York’s Resiliency

This blog post was written by Eric Kilz, a Red Crosser deployed to help with Sandy relief efforts in New York. Breezy Point, a quiet picturesque neighborhood located on a peninsula in the south of Queens, never looked like the rest of New York City. As a private community, it hosts three of the few [...]

Holiday Season Safety

Last week a friend of mine was sitting on her couch, admiring her family’s newly-decorated and beautifully lit Christmas tree, when she and her husband heard a strange hissing sound.  They assumed that the sound was coming from one of the lights, and they were right.  When they found the hissing light, they discovered that [...]