In 2004, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) made plans to connect the neighborhood to the city's sewer system to combat the flooding by raising the land.
[2] As of 2023, a plan to raise the streets and connect the neighborhood to the surrounding sewer system remained in the city's capital budget but had not been implemented.
[8] Some drainage upgrades made in 2023 helped water drain more quickly after Tropical Storm Ophelia compared to Hurricane Ida in 2021, but did not prevent flooding that trapped some residents in their homes.
[9] While waiting for solutions from the city, residents have implemented some systems to deal with flooding, including tapping into public utilities to provide electricity for outdoor sump pumps to remove water from streets.
[14] These include John Favara, a Queens furniture store manager killed because he accidentally ran over the 12-year-old son of John Gotti, and Lucchese crime family members Joseph Spione and Thomas DeSimone, on whom Joe Pesci's character Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas was based.