Weather-wise, I'm not really prepared for any disaster. Although, since Superstorm Sandy came up the coastline and decimated several parts of NJ & NY, I did get some Sterno canned heat, in case the electric stove goes out. I do have some cans of food to last a few days, as well as some water bottles and a manual can opener.
The one winter storm that did knock out power, only knocked out power in a mile radius here and there. One only had to walk a mile or more and they'd be in a different neighborhood that had full power, well stocked grocery stores open as normal. So one could get food and water available and hike back home.
What seems to be the bigger potential danger here in NYC is the now DAILY protests and marches pro-Palestine or pro-Israel. They started out, a few weeks ago, mostly peaceful. With just a few people arrested. But, now, they are becoming more violent and disruptive.
Tonight, they started out gathered at Columbus Circle, just north of my neighborhood. Then moved downward and were blocked by police. So they went over to Park Ave and then looped back near my neighborhood in Times Square. Some people threw some cans of red paint at the front of the NY Times Building. Then they marched over to Grand Central Terminal. Only by then, droves of police were ready for them there as it's a landmark building. The NYPD closed down Grand Central for a few hours as the protestors tried to bash the doors in to get in. Several were arrested.
If these protests start getting like the George Floyd protests/riots and the Black Lives Matter protests, there were groups of violent people who USED the protest to loot stores, destroy buildings and beat up and rob people. They weren't the actual protestors who generally stayed near the middle of the protests. Some were mentally ill homeless people, nearby, all riled up. (There's more now since the pandemic.) And would-be criminals who used the protests as diversions to come loot, rob, steal and destroy places, while the police are occupied with the protestors. These criminals were always along the OUTSKIRTS of the protests - the streets and avenues where the police WEREN'T patrolling.
And that does put them directly in my neighborhood, along the avenues & streets I walk, shop, and the subway exits I take home, as there is a protest every few days now in Times Square. So I may stock up on extra food so I don't have to go out during the times the protests go by my neighborhood. And extra batteries too, in case they somehow figure out how to knock out the power in my neighborhood.