"Red Hook is cut off from the rest of the borough by the Brooklyn Queens Expressway and has no subway..." — Maya Wiley

High-speed Internet access won't stop future superstorms and it won't solve all the unfairness that low-income New Yorkers face. But with strong alliances between community members, local nonprofits, businesses and technology experts, it will bring affordable, local innovation that helps us build stronger, fairer and more resilient communities.

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, 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.