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NY Times: Cars at a standstill, thwarted by floodwater on the Long Island Expressway. Others forced to navigate an intersection in Williamsburg like amphibious vehicles on a Duck tour. Is that Carroll Street? Or is it a river? Does New York City have an infrastructure problem? How much rain fell? Kennedy Airport in Queens got three and a half inches […]

The City Planning Commission hearing will still happen on July 31 Curbed: At a packed public hearing on Wednesday night, elected officials, neighbors, and advocates expressed their concerns about the East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) project, and a city official announced a two-week extension on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) comment period. Though Manhattan Borough

Gothamist: The first stage of City Hall’s East Side Coastal Resiliency project to fortify lower Manhattan against future climate catastrophe is focused on East River Park, which the city has targeted for a massive overhaul to raise the landscape by eight feet from Montgomery Street to East 13th Street. At a public hearing on Wednesday evening at Mt.

Bowery Boogie: Back in mid-May, the Parks Department shared a presentation with the Community Board 3 Parks subcommittee regarding the East Side Coastal Resiliency project. (The ESCR project is the city’s flood protection plan which will close, demolish, and rebuild the majority of the East River Park.) The presentation was divided into three sections: “Project Update,” “Neighborhood Parks

City Limits: The de Blasio administration has a plan to shore up the Lower East Side’s defenses against rising seawaters. It will also rebuild the largest park in Lower Manhattan. There will be 40 acres of greenspace. The park will have eight baseball fields, three soccer fields and a running track. There will be a multipurpose

Curbed: City officials presented a preliminary design for the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR) on Thursday night at a Community Board 3 meeting. Following several months of meetings and feedback, the Department of Design and Construction (DDC) presented a new version of the project’s design, implementing some of the changes suggested by neighbors and advocates.

The Patch: Manhattan’s borough president wants the city to further delay a hearing on a massive storm protection project on the Lower East Side by 60 days for more community outreach. BP Gale Brewer wants City Planning to postpone the hearing for the $1.45 billion East Side Coastal Resiliency project — a storm flood protection plan

Streetsblog NYC: The Manhattan Borough President is demanding that the city provide guarantees of access to parks and recreation and interim bike and pedestrian routes as it moves ahead with a controversial project to raise the coastline of the waterfront along that East River in lower Manhattan. Gale Brewer wrote Monday to the Mayor’s Office of