As New York City honors the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy and the government pivots from evaluating climate risk to developing a comprehensive, citywide resilience plan, there is a great opportunity for the City to learn from the many communities that have already begun this work. RPA and Rebuild by Design (RBD), in collaboration with
Tuesday, September 20th | 3:30-5:00PM (Attendees access from 3:15PM) The program session will focus on how to engage citizens in creating resilient communities. A particular focus point will be the long running collaboration between New York City and the City of Copenhagen regarding climate change adaption. The climate is changing and it is threatening cities
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Targeted toward NYC faith communities of all traditions, this event will explore the role of faith communities in community resilience, and how to serve and build capacity in places of faith on the frontlines serving disinvested communities most impacted by climate disasters. Co-sponsored with Brooklyn Borough President’s Office of Faith & Clergy Initiatives, The Chisholm
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In September 2021, Hurricane Ida barreled across the Caribbean and the U.S., causing $75 billion in damage and shocking New York City as 3 inches of rain fell in one hour. Extreme rain events like Ida or Hurricane Harvey are happening more often due to climate change, and many cities’ infrastructure and landscapes are not
NY1: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers quietly announced earlier this month that it favors a plan to build several small flood gates at the mouths of New York City waterways to prevent storm surges from inundating urban areas — instead of constructing massive barriers that would span the Narrows waterway or the mouth to the area’s
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Bloomberg: New York City was hit with an estimated $19 billion in damages and lost economic activity after Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012. The historic storm displaced thousands of residents from flooded homes, inundated subway tunnels, and left much of Manhattan in darkness. But when B.J. Jones talks about that disaster, he often focuses on a less
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Planet Citizen: Writing in Bloomberg CityLab, Patrick Sisson reports on efforts to protect Battery Park City from catastrophic flooding like the kind that devastated parts of New York during Hurricane Sandy. As Sisson writes, local residents want authorities to remember that “amid the high-rises, there’s a real neighborhood here in this low-lying area at the southern tip
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Tap: New Jersey’s recently signed $50.6 billion fiscal budget includes $100 million for the state Department of Environment Protection’s ongoing flood mitigation project along the Hudson River, funding that Hoboken says will be used to construct a resiliency park. Rebuild by Design, which broke ground last year, aims to protect flood prone areas, including the entire City
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SI Advance: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida barreled through New York City, Staten Island saw levels of rainfall not witnessed in recent memory. Residents in parts of the borough spared from the worst of Hurricane Sandy’s wrath now found themselves vulnerable to a different type of flooding. A report issued last Wednesday by Rebuild by Design and One
NY1: Darinko Mrvica and his family have lived in his well-manicured brick home in Whitestone, Queens, for 40 years. The basement floods about every four, he said. During Hurricane Ida, water from the intense rainfall spilled over the top of his sunken driveway, climbing halfway up his garage doors and causing one of them to
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