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New York Times:  Federal housing officials will award about $281 million to the New York region, including the states of Connecticut and New Jersey, to better protect communities from natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy. The single largest award in the contest, $176 million, will go to New York City to help build a new flood protection system […]

13 states/communities to receive funding for resilient infrastructure and housing projects Today, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro and the Rockefeller Foundation announced the winners of the $1 billion National Disaster Resilience Competition (NDRC).  Secretary Castro traveled to Norfolk, Virginia where he joined Governor Terry McAuliffe in announcing the winners

Curbed:  Lower Manhattan will receive $176 million in funds for flood protection, the New York Times reports.While the specifics of what this protection entails has not yet been decided, the funds, awarded to city by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, will cover the shoreline stretching from Montgomery Street on the Lower East Side to the tip

From the New York Times:   New York City may soon be one step closer to building a new flood protection system around Lower Manhattan to guard against another storm like Hurricane Sandy. Senator Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, said on Monday that the city would be awarded $176 million in federal funding for the proposed project, through a

TimeOut New York: After Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012, all kind of ideas were bandied about to combat future fallout from major meteorological mayhem. One proposal would have built a retractable sea wall across the Verrazano Narrows to prevent storm surges from entering New York Harbor. Another called for giant balloons that could be inflated at the

The Observer:  When you hear the phrase “East Side Coastal Resiliency Project,” your first thought probably isn’t “That sounds like a cool place to hang out.” But that’s what New York City intends to accomplish with a massive flood protection project, sometimes referred to by a much sexier, but unofficial, nickname—the Dryline. The project, on