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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

The Architects Newspaper: New York City’s City Planning Commission met last Monday to vote on the future of the $1.45 billion resiliency plan to bolster flood protection in Lower Manhattan, a mammoth scheme designed and planned by One Architecture & Urbanism, Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, AKRF, and Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). The approved East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) project

Curbed NY: The city is about to embark on a two-year process that will create a roadmap to expand nearly a mile of the lower Manhattan coastline into the East River with flood protections. Officials with the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) have approved a team of 18 consultants lead by Arcadis, a Netherlands-based design