’Cane study is axed; pols rage

The city’s elected officials and activists sent a tsunami of fury at President Trump over his abrupt move to cancel funding for a major study on preparing the Big Apple for the next Hurricane Sandy.

“This is the equivalent of the president of the United States telling New York City to drop dead,” Councilman Mark Treyger (D-Brooklyn) told the Daily News. “I’m very worried that there will be a mass displacement of people because a lot of low-income working families live in vulnerable coastal areas of New York City.”

With no warning, the Army Corps of Engineers on Monday announced it was “indefinitely suspending” a study on the best way to prepare the city for the effects of storms like Sandy.

The Corps had been considering measures like a multibillion-dollar, 6-mile-long barrier to wall off New York Harbor from the Atlantic Ocean. Their study had cost $19 million and counting as of 2018.

Trump derided the idea as “a costly, foolish & environmentally unfriendly idea that, when needed, probably won’t work anyway.

“It will also look terrible,” he tweeted Jan. 18. “Sorry, you’ll just have to get your mops & buckets ready!”

Councilman Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn), who has led hearings grilling the Army Corps of Engineers, called the cancellation of the study “totally

insane.” “This problem isn’t going away, so whether or not they want to deal with it is irrelevant.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) said the Trump administration is being “penny-wise and pound-foolish.”

“There was no reason given for these cuts — because there is no answer,” he said in a statement.

“This is yet another shameful example of President Trump’s complete disregard for the people of New York,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (DN.Y.) said in a statement.

When Hurricane Sandy slammed the region in 2012, the storm caused about $70 billion in property damage and claimed dozens of lives here.