Question: New York was severely affected by what that included the flooding of the New York City Subway system, which casued an American arts promoter and former museum director to  launched an initiative called "CultureAID" ?
Sentence (from "List of closed New York City Subway stations"): Its predecessors—the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND)—were consolidated in 1940.
Relevant evidence: No