While Gov. Kathy Hochul included a pathway to basement legalization in her February budget proposal, the word 'cellar' is absent from her plan. The two terms may be indistinguishable to most property owners, but they're different under zoning and dwelling laws, and excluding cellars from the state's plan would omit a significant swath of below-grade housing stock from potential conversion, advocates say.
that, you know, got hit, and you mentioned it wasn t occupied. but then does this mean that people, particularly with the curfew in place, are they staying in basement units mostly? reporter: what is notable about this curfew is when we think about curfews normally it s from evening until morning. this one is for 48 hours. kyiv officials want the citizens off of the streets. if there are air raid sirens, they say go down into the shelters. there are thousands of shelters across the city. they re telling people to stay inside their homes, to stay away from windows, because of course blasts can shatter windows and cause all kinds of injuries. that incident you re talking about in that apartment building of course is a very worrying sign of what could come, a rocket slamming into the upper floors of that apartment building. we re told by ukrainian officials that there were somehow no casualties, no
a family had drowned in a basement apartment on a street that had flooded over and over and over again, without the city doing anything to improve the infrastructure over the last two decades. i certainly hope that in the future, we will be able to prevent deaths in basement units through better notification and ensuring that basement units are safe and resilient to the impacts of extreme precipitation. i think those deaths would have been preventable had we had better forecasting, better notification, and had. i don t want to say this. i think i m going to leave my answer where it was, about what i said about the future. we are responsible for the safety of everybody in the city.
the tv resting on it. everything is destroyed that these people had. now they are left to deal with that destruction and that was one woman that the president had spoken with. then later on we went to queens where of course we saw a lot of devastation with flooding there. we were in an alli between two rows of homes. a lot of homes in new york have basement units where it s the basement that a family used or an entirely separate unit that families live in. they were telling the president about their experiences last week, anderson. several of those people in those basement units, those low lying dwellings were trapped in their homes and died because they could not get to safety. it was just this larger piece of seeing the devastation up close of a storm that had started out in the bayou, made its way to the boroughs. you re seeing the devastation that these people have to live with and how much wreckage there is to their own homes and what they have to do now going forward to pick up t
the tv resting on it. everything is destroyed that these people had. now they are left to deal with that destruction and that was one woman that the president had spoken with. then later on we went to queens where of course we saw a lot of devastation with flooding there. we were in an alley between two rows of homes. a lot of homes in new york have basement units where it s the basement that the family used or an entirely separate unit that another family lives in. we saw several of those families, spoke with them as well as they were telling president about their experiences last week, anderson. where several of those people in those basement units, those low-lying dwellings, were trapped in their homes and died because they could not get to safety. it was just this larger piece of seeing the devastation up close of a storm that had started out in the bayou, made its way to the boroughs. you re seeing the devastation that these people have to live with and how much wreckage there is