New York City has 520 miles of coast line. Some areas of New York are already seeing the effects of climate change. It is not just heat waves, which are increasing in intensity, frequency, and duration everywhere, but also effects that are unique to New York. Many neighborhoods along the New York City coast are at sea level, and some are already inundated multiple times a month at king tide events and with every storm surge. The areas hit hardest by Sandy are the same areas facing the most bracing prospects of the Climate Crisis. The Rockaways, Southeast Queens, Jamaica Bay, Southeast Brooklyn, and the east coast of Staten Island, are all facing imminent destruction: either from the slow, creeping sea level rise that will see much of the area below projected sea levels by 2080, a time well within my lifetime, let alone that of children being born now; or from the next Sandy, a storm that is still very much present in the everyday lives of people in these areas of the outer-boroughs where the recovery is still very much under way. As we contend with the inevitability of Climate Change, it is necessary to take a moment to recognize the effects that have already begun and appreciate the full scope should we act or allow it to go unchecked.