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Architects News: New York City’s $1.45 billion East Side Coastal Resiliency project (ESCR) has been approved by the New York City Planning Commission despite community outcry over the required temporary closure of the Lower East Side’s East River Park that the project entails. The project is designed by One Architecture & Urbanism, Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, AKRF, and Bjarke Ingels […]

Curbed: The Two Bridges area is Manhattan’s most vulnerable to flooding, sitting some seven feet above sea level. Flood barriers and new drainage infrastructure are planned to protect the neighborhood from prolific storm surge, but that alone will not fend off climate change. Now, the city plans to elevate a nearly mile-long stretch of the East

The Low Down: In response to neighborhood opposition to the city’s plans for a flood barrier in East River Park, the de Blasio administration announced more changes in its resiliency schemes this week. The project, scheduled to begin next spring, will now be undertaken in sections, meaning that portions of the park will remain open during

Crains NY Business: The city’s plan to extend a barrier between nearly one mile of Lower Manhattan’s coastline and the East River with more extensive flood-water protections is one step closer to reality. The New York City Economic Development Corporation has approved Netherlands-based engineering firm Arcadis, along with a team of 18 consultants, to develop the city’s Financial District

The Patch: Flood barriers will flip up and roll out in the Two Bridges neighborhood by 2024 after three years of feasibility and coastal studies, officials said at a sparsely attended community meeting Wednesday night. From Brooklyn Bridge to Montgomery Street, eight-to-10-foot-tall flood barriers will sit atop platforms beneath the FDR Drive as a part of