Habitat Mag: “The sooner we decide as a city to invest in resilience measures to help neighborhoods adapt — whether it’s to fortify or to move — the faster we avert leaving an even bigger crisis for the next generation,” says Amy Chester, the managing director of Rebuild by Design, a New York University-based nonprofit […]
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New York Times: “The sooner we decide as a city to invest in resilience measures to help neighborhoods adapt — whether it’s to fortify or to move — the faster we avert leaving an even bigger crisis for the next generation,” said Amy Chester, the managing director of Rebuild by Design, a nonprofit that works
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NY Times: Ms. Hochul, a Democrat, questioned the wisdom of the cuts, saying the grants were “critical to help us rebuild” after a litany of major weather disasters that had hit the state in recent years. “Cutting infrastructure funding for communities across New York is shortsighted and a massive risk to public safety,” Ms. Hochul
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The City: Amy Chester, director of resiliency nonprofit Rebuild By Design, saw “Flood Sensor Aunty” in Astoria, Queens, in September and was impressed. She proceeded to award Sethi Unni a grant through the Rainproof NYC initiative, which sought to address the urban challenge of extreme rain. “Even though the characters are somewhat outrageous, they’re also
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The Hill: No part of the United States, red or blue, is exempt from weather disasters. Rebuild by Design, a disaster-mitigation think tank, notes that climate-related disasters occurred in all of the nation’s congressional districts except two during 2011-2024. Over 95 percent of Americans live in counties that experienced one or more major disaster declarations
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News Break: Amy Chester, director of Rebuild by Design, agrees with Castor’s concerns. She explains that transferring FEMA’s responsibilities to the states would be complex and time-consuming. “It would be incredibly complex to solely rely on a state to respond,” Chester observed. Both sides emphasize the need for a responsive disaster agency. While some advocate
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Fox 13: Amy Chester, the director of the non-profit Rebuild by Design, has dealt with FEMA a lot over the years and said transferring its responsibilities entirely to the states would be a complex process. “We are able to show that 90% of counties across the US and 99.5% of congressional districts have experienced a
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Green Builder Media: Rebuild by Design coupled innovation and global expertise with community insight to develop solutions to the most complex needs of the affected cities and regions. The result of this was a multi-billion-dollar New York City project called Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency (LMCR), or its more-familiar name, “The Big U,” for its shape
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Urban Omnibus: The stories we share below, reported from the imaginations of climate adaptation expert Amy Chester, CUNY professor and activist Ashley Dawson, and engineer Amalia Cuadra, describe how the march towards an environmentally just city is possible, even if it will be harrowing. New Yorkers tolerate the city’s last gas building holdouts, fight to
