STATEN ISLAND – The Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery is undergoing the procurement process to identify the contractor for the Breakwaters Project. A contractor should be designated by mid-summer.
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HUNTS POINT – NYC Economic Development Corporation has released an RFP for final design of the Hunts Point Resiliency project to support the installation of reliable, dispatchable, and sustainable power to identified critical facilities on the Hunts Point Peninsula in the event of an emergency. The consultant will develop final design drawings for three project components:
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Daily News: Rather than plow ahead with a rebuild of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway running through Brooklyn Heights, Mayor de Blasio set up a panel to discuss alternatives. The panel was appointed only because the residents of Brooklyn Heights — one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city — greeted with a deafening “NO!” the city’s plan
HOBOKEN – NJDEP held four design zone workshops in February/March. The February 7th workshop at Ellysian Charter School presented 3 designs for Cove Park. The materials from all the Workshops including the presentations, display boards, and handouts are available here>>
REBUILD BY DESIGN HUDSON RIVER PROJECT APRIL 2019 UPDATE Read More »
Hudson Reporter:As coastal cities like Jersey City and Hoboken face an imminent threat of flooding due to climate change, environmental activists from around Hudson County, the state, and region, joined officials at a town hall meeting on April 17 to talk about strategies for dealing with it. Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla joined Jersey City Mayor
The $10 Billion Question(s)? THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. JOIN US ON LIVESTREAM: https://bit.ly/2oPPJdP Mayor Bill deBlasio proposes extending the waterfront from the Seaport to Battery Park up to 500 feet into the East River at a cost of up to $10 billion: if done right, this proposal can integrate benefits such as open space, affordable housing, and
MAYOR DEBLASIO’S FLOOD PROTECTION: WHAT IS IT AND HOW WILL IT AFFECT OUR COMMUNITIES? Read More »
City Limits: The water first rose up out of the streets in Coney Island, recalls Ida Sanoff, sometime last summer. “I was standing last summer on the corner of Mermaid Avenue and I think West 19th Street, and it hadn’t rained in several days, and the entire intersection was a lake,” she recalls. “And all of
AS THE SEA RISES, WILL RESILIENCY—RATHER THAN RETREAT—BE ENOUGH TO SAVE WATERFRONT NYC? Read More »
The premise of the Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge was both simple and audacious. As flood risks increase due to severe storms and sea level rise, organizers asked the question: Can the Bay Area come together to shift its course and build a more resilient region before disaster hits? And can we use
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Places Journal: I don’t know when the myth of landscape architects as climate saviors began, but I know it’s time to kill it. The New Landscape Declaration — a book emerging from a 2016 summit attended by the brightest thinkers in our field — frames landscape architecture as an “ever more urgent necessity,” if not the foundation of
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The Patch: The city released hundreds of pages of documents regarding Manhattan’s east side resiliency project Friday — including possible mitigations for open space, recreation facilities and bike lanes while the East River Park is undergoing construction for the storm protection plan. A draft environmental impact statement for the storm protection project was released Friday —
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