Answer:
escape
Explanation:
I think it's this because the text says "until he saw fat Joe walk in through the rear door, then his courage began to ooze." meaning that his confidence left when he saw fat Joe walk through that door.
Devestation, thing got ruined, people injured or killed, more homeless
It is a phrase that is commonly said and it doesn’t compare any two things, so it is an idiom.
New York is an Urban community. Urban communities generally have high population densities as well as a large number of commercial buildings, houses, roads etc. A suburban community is generally located in the outskirts of a city or urban neighborhood. These generally have more houses and less commercial buildings and the like. Lastly a rural community is located outside the urban community and has a low population density.