The East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) project broke ground in the fall of 2020 and is advancing construction of the flood wall and flood protection in Stuyvesant Cove and Asher Levy Playground site improvements. The project will extend flood protections and improve open spaces for more than 110,000 New Yorkers – including 28,000 public housing residents […]
CONSTRUCTION BREAKS GROUND ON THE FIRST SECTION OF THE BIG U Read More »
The Lower Manhattan Coastal Resilience (LMCR) Project is comprised of four projects: Brooklyn Bridge Montgomery Coastal Resilience, The Battery Coastal Resilience, Battery Park City Resilience Projects, and the Financial District and Seaport Master Planning process. In March, 2019 New York City released a Lower Manhattan Climate Resilience Study which identified a need for the City to initiate the Financial
LOWER MANHATTAN BIG U OCTOBER 2021 UPDATE (LMCR) Read More »
The City: Governors Island is awash in ideas for a new climate research hub on the New York Harbor haven — including from influential former deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff and several major universities. Doctoroff, who served as development czar under Mike Bloomberg, is among 37 individuals and groups who delivered 12 separate proposals to the Trust
GOVERNORS ISLAND CLIMATE RESEARCH HUB HOPEFULS INCLUDE EX-BLOOMBERG DEPUTY MAYOR Read More »
This month, academics, students and practitioners from the Middle East and abroad came together to learn about the key tenets of urban resilience, and propose design interventions to address challenges in Amman, Ramallah, and Byblos. In the fourth installment of Resilience by Design University (RBD_U), we took on the topics of of waste, water, and
STUDENTS & PRACTITIONERS GATHER IN AMMAN FOR RBD_U Read More »
Dame Magazine: Water demands a place to flow. In New York City, a place deemed a “concrete jungle,” however, rivers, wetlands, oceans, and other natural movement paths are unsurprisingly scarce. So when Hurricane Ida unleashed seven inches of rain in just a few hours over the city on September 1, stormwater rushed down streets, gushed onto subway
U.S. CITIES ARE NOT READY FOR CLIMATE DISASTERS Read More »
NY1: East River Park is still here. Earlier this year, the city told residents to expect construction to start in the spring on the $1.45 billion project to raise East River Park on top of eight feet of fill, part of the city’s flagship — and controversial — climate change resiliency project. The construction crews never showed up. Little League
GROUND UNBROKEN, EAST RIVER PARK PROJECT SHOWS CITY’S STEEP RESILIENCY LEARNING CURVE Read More »
Background Proposal Progress on Implementation GALLERY
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