"High-speed Internet access won't stop future superstorms and it won't solve all the unfairness that ..." — Maya Wiley

I look forward to demonstrating the greatest integrity of fairness and independence that any arm of the city should have and does have.

Red Hook is cut off from the rest of the borough by the Brooklyn Queens Expressway and has no subway access, forcing residents to rely on the bus, their feet or, for those lucky enough to afford it, a car.

Red Hook, Brooklyn, is a spit of land jutting out over the New York Harbor and looking across to the gleaming high rises of the financial district in Manhattan. Its views are amazing, its poverty stark.