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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

The Dirt: To protect against future super storms and long-term sea level rise, New York City proposed creating a set of landscaped berms around the southern tip of Manhattan, a plan deemed the “Big U.” The city secured some $330 million from the U.S. department of housing and urban development (HUD)’s Rebuild by Design competition in 2014 to

Curbed NY: Seven years after Superstorm Sandy, New York City has rebuilt housing, reopened beaches, and prioritized crucial repairs to its subway. But out on Staten Island, which bore the brunt of the storm’s devastation, most of the destroyed homes still sit empty. Now a massive new piece of infrastructure is planned here, as part of a new way cities

CT Post: BRIDGEPORT — The launch and presentation of the new Plan Bridgeport website will occur at 6 p.m. on June 19, the city Planning Department announced in a tweet. Plan Bridgeport is a master plan that lays out a 10-year map for city conservation and development goals. The original draft of the plan was instituted in