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I <3 MY SHORELINE

March 23, 2014 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Staten Island Museum, Staten Island The Harbor School, Staten Island Maker Space, Rebuild by Design’s SCAPE / Landscape Architecture team and local residents built a life-sized, interactive oyster-reef model demonstrating the benefits of establishing these offshore breakwaters. The program, held at the Staten Island Museum, interweaved Staten

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REBUILD ONE CITY PARADE AND PARTY

March 22, 2014 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm St. Stephen AME Zion Church, Asbury Park On Saturday, March 22, residents, youth groups, community organizations, and environmentalists joined together for “Rebuild One City,” a participatory parade and party celebrating community resilience in Asbury Park post-Hurricane Sandy. The parade symbolically united Asbury Park’s westside and eastside communities,

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CITYMAKING: BRIDGEPORT

March 15, 2014 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Bridgeport Public Library, Bridgeport On two consecutive weekends, youth groups and other residents toured the Pequonnock River by bike with architects and ecologists, and participated in design workshops to propose strategies to redesign the water’s edge. On March 15, these events were accompanied by an afternoon festival

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THANK YOU, LES!

March 15, 2014 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Two Bridges Tower, Lower East Side Lower East Side community members were invited to a THANK YOU, LES! party to celebrate their ongoing work on Rebuild by Design and other planning initiatives to reclaim the East River waterfront for community use and to protect residents and businesses

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RISK ECONOMY: REGIONAL RESILIENCE AND THE COST OF DOING NOTHING

March 13, 2014 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm NYU Institute for Public Knowledge, New York City Team WXY/West 8 held a finance colloquia, which included a panel of industry experts who discussed risk, finance, and insurance based tools.  Team member, Andy Kao, from AIR Worldwide, presented AIRs catastrophe modeling framework which provides Insured Loss Calculations.

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