“The lightning response to Hurricane Sandy is one of our movement’s most meaningful expressions yet. What first emerged in Zuccotti Park a year ago has now blossomed into direct community aid and empowerment in at least a dozen areas around NYC,” posted Conor Tomas Reed, an adjunct instructor at Baruch College and a student at the CUNY Graduate Center who was been heavily involved in the Red Hook Initiative and Occupy Sandy relief efforts. “Food, water, medicine, shelter, politics, vision, scale—recovery efforts have met basic needs and posed radical alternatives in a dialogue now reaching thousands of people daily.” In the midst of on the ground mobilization of communities in response to sustained Hurricane damage, we still haven’t heard from the New York Times or other major media sources about who are the disproportionately affected by the storm. If this hasn’t taught us anything, it is really that Sandy has uncovered yet another “Tale of Two Cities.” This may seem obvious to some readers, but since the major media has been so neglectful, it seems to make sense to set the record straight. The majority of districts that are the most affected by Hurricane Sandy via power outages, no running water and lack of access to food are the same that are affected by broad, systemic patterns racial and economic injustice. Historically, most of the neighborhoods are the very same that experienced white flight during the mid-20th century while simultaneously being disenfranchised via redlining by banks and real estate agencies–a legacy that still greatly affects residents of these areas access to a long list of things other parts of the city take for granted: public parks and healthy, affordable food. Redlining succeeded in shutting off all opportunities for loans and other forms of economic investment in poor, minorities neighborhoods (in the instance of areas such as the South Bronx, Red Hook and East New York in Brooklyn).