Report: Cuomo and de Blasio need to focus more on city infrastructure

Dana Rubinstein

Put Hurricane Sandy and the frailties it exposed in New York City’s ability to withstand fierce storms aside for a minute.

New York City’s crumbling infrastructure “could wreak as much havoc on the city’s economy, competitiveness and quality of life as the next big storm,” according to a report released this morning by the Center for an Urban Future.

The report compiles a series of alarming facts, including, in no particular order, these:

“Over 1,000 miles of New York City water mains are more than 100 years old,” and in a typical year, there are roughly 400 water main breaks, some of them flooding city subways and streets.

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