Judy Huynh

NY Daily News: What if Pizza Rat told New Yorkers to check their subway route for possible closures before or during heavy rains. Mr. Met could impress the importance of signing up for “Notify NYC” — the NYC Office of Emergency Management alert program, for real-time warnings, available in 14 languages. Or the New York […]

Interesting Engineering: The $60M federal grant (Rebuild by Design) plus state funds yielded a ~$107–111M project (in 2020 dollars). Civil contractor Weeks Marine built the features, with construction breaking ground in September 2021, and the construction was completed by October 2024. Performance: Although final monitoring results are pending, hydrodynamic models show that the breakwaters greatly

North Jersey: According to Rebuild by Design’s Atlas of Disaster: New Jersey, the state has experienced 14 federally declared major disasters due to extreme weather from 2011 to 2024 — most due to flooding and storms — and is ranked fifth in the country for highest per capita FEMA support. Every county has had five

Katie Couric: “Trump has come out with his guns blazing against FEMA,” New York University’s Rebuild By Design director Amy Chester tells us. “But you don’t have to get rid of something a hundred percent to fix it.”

Spectrum News TX: “FEMA is frontline aid for states across the country,” said Amy Chester, director of Rebuild by Design, a New York University-based nonprofit that has been helping communities adapt to climate change ever since Hurricane Sandy.

The Hill: The nonpartisan organization Rebuild by Design notes that 40 states experienced 10 or more major disasters (those causing more than $1 billion in damages) from 2011 to 2024. During that period, every county in 28 states suffered at least one major weather disaster. Only two of America’s 435 congressional districts escaped big weather

Times of San Diego: Rebuild by Design “put designers in the driver’s seat to come up with ideas as to how to protect Manhattan from the next superstorm,” Rost said. “We saw it as an opportunity not just to build a wall around Manhattan, which would be a huge undertaking,” but also to transform the

The Cool Down: New York City has a new elevated waterfront park, and the first section just opened to the public 13 years after Hurricane Sandy flooded lower Manhattan, the Guardian reported. “This is a project that brings the community to the water,” said Amy Chester, director of Rebuild by Design, a New York-based nonprofit

The Guardian: ‘The whole idea was to use the park as the “wall” that would protect the community behind it, but also give the community new access to a park they could enjoy,’ said Amy Chester, director of Rebuild by Design, a New York-based non-profit that worked with city and federal officials on the project.

EESI: After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, New Jersey received U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funding for two adaptation projects: Rebuild by Design (RBD) – Hudson River and RBD – RBD – Hudson River received an initial $230 million. RBD – Hudson River includes six parks in Hoboken designed to retain and rebuff water.