City Limits: Stand along the East River waterfront in the Financial District, and it quickly becomes how big a task City Hall has set for itself in protecting lower Manhattan from sea level rise. Manhattan’s southern tip is ringed by low-lying land — appropriate for an island that was significantly expanded in its early days by landfill […]
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Crains: Mayor Bill de Blasio will create an advisory group to answer concerns about his administration’s billion-dollar resiliency plan at East River Park. The mayor committed to funding the board shortly before a City Council committee voted Monday to advance the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project. In a statement, de Blasio promised the plan would “protect New Yorkers for years
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Trust for Public Land: Hurricane Sandy roared over the New York City metro area seven years ago this week. Few who witnessed the storm’s power, or experienced its devastating aftermath, will ever forget it. But as climate scientists predict more and stronger hurricanes in the decades to come, what have we learned about resiliency in the
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PBS NewsHour: Fourteen years after Hurricane Katrina, the neighborhood of Gentilly, New Orleans, is still in the process of rebuilding. Even after experiencing the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, residents wanted to stay in their neighborhoods– going so far as to fight the city’s controversial “green dot” plan, which would have abandoned neighborhoods like Gentilly and
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Staten Island Advance: While a new dedicated maritime-themed school is no longer being pursued on Staten Island, several schools in the borough are integrating maritime curriculum into a variety of subjects. PS 59, New Brighton, has been incorporating maritime-themed curriculum into its daily teachings by focusing on the impact of the New York Harbor and
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Rebuild by Design invites you to participate in a one-day symposium sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Critical Resilient Interdependent Systems and Processes (CRISP) Program. The symposium which will include the project external board review will consist of keynote talks, panel discussions, and technical presentations by invited experts and project team members. Topics include;
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AIA Puerto Rico will host it’s annual meeting at Hotel La Concha Resort on October 18th and 19th in San Juan Puerto Rico. Amy Chester, Director of Rebuild by Design will provide the keynote on Saturday. Learn more at https://www.aiapr.com/
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The Jeresulem Post: Climate change is with us, whether we wish it or not. The entire globe is warming up accompanied by extreme weathers, the likes of which we have never experienced: floods, the melting of ice at the North and South poles, extra high temperatures in the 40s Celsius, forest fires. All of these, and
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Curbed: All along the coast of New York City, hard decisions are being made about how to address the inevitability of sea level rise. An enormous sea wall is rising in Staten Island, massive storm surge gates are being planned for New York Harbor, and the lower tip of Manhattan may soon be extended 500 feet out into the
NYC WILL REMAKE THE EAST RIVER WATERFRONT TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE. IT MAY NOT BE ENOUGH Read More »
Patch: The massive storm protection project proposed for East River Park needs to be even taller than current plans call for, according to a consultant’s report released Thursday. Hans Gehrels, a third- party consultant hired by local politicians, says the city should consider adding two feet to its current storm protection plan, which calls for burying
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