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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

The Villager: At a June 11 public hearing about the city’s East Side Coastal Resiliency plan, Lower East Side residents mostly disapproved of the current flood-protection plan and called for more community input into the process. Held by the Community Board 3 Parks, Recreation, Waterfront & Resiliency Committee, the meeting was part of the Uniform Land