NEW YORK — Tourists and workers on Wall Street on Monday were met by a jarring spectacle: protesters, some lying in pools of fake blood outside the New York Stock Exchange, some dancing and others chanting, all to call attention to people killed by climate-related disease and disaster.
A car rocked like flotsam in thigh-deep water in Brooklyn. A cascade ran down subway stairs in Harlem while a nonchalant commuter checked her phone. The rain knocked out power for some 200,000 New Jersey customers, a day after a heat wave caused tens of thousands to suffer blackouts in New York City.
New York City, the world capital of ambition, has never been shy about grandiose declarations. The City Council has passed or proposed resolutions demanding world peace, banning a racist slur and condemning all manner of federal policies where city government has no actual say.
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