Video: As Covid-19 Hinders City Efforts to Protect Residents From the Heat, Community Groups Step In

Increasingly frequent extreme heat is compounding threats in areas already disproportionately impacted by Covid-19 and socioeconomic inequalities. In this Brooklyn neighborhood, where hundreds of trees were removed in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and public spaces often used to keep residents cool are closed because of the pandemic, this community-led effort hopes to provide relief from the heat.