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Dredging Today: The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is inviting the communities of Jersey City, Hoboken and Weehawken to upcoming Design Zone Workshops on the $230 Million Rebuild by Design – Hudson River Project.  This workshop, set for February 19 at 22 Hackensack Ave. in Weehawken, NJ, will cover the alignment in the North […]

Press of Atlantic City: Egg Harbor Township has applied for a federal grant of $2.4 million to tear down four eyesore motels in West Atlantic City as a way to mitigate flooding on properties severely and repeatedly inundated with water. “We can’t build anything there once the motels are demolished,” said Business Administrator Peter Miller. “We

The Patch: An abandoned community center at-risk of collapse will be demolished soon and replaced with a field, the Parks Department said. The LaGuardia Bathhouse, closed since the 1970s, was quietly determined to be unstable and at-risk of collapse back in mid-December. Since then, Mayor Bill de Blasio has allocated funds to demolish the Parks-owned building

The Villager: A recently revised city plan on how to keep East River floodwaters at bay in the event of another Hurricane Sandy produced a storm of anger and dismay at City Hall last week. Before a hearing on the matter on Wed., Jan. 23, the East River Alliance, a new community-based group, held a press

Strategy+Business:  Shortly after Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast of the United States in 2012, the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) visited the Netherlands. Shaun Donovan had been asked to lead President Barack Obama’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, aimed at the reconstruction of areas devastated not just by that hurricane, but

Curbed: Projects undertaken by the city’s Department of Design and Construction (DDC) have been notoriously plagued by protracted timelines and cost overruns. Now, the agency is taking steps to combat some of the issues that have beset capital projects across the city. On Thursday the de Blasio administration announced a new comprehensive plan that will transform the processes through

Curbed: After years of community engagement about a resiliency plan to build a system of flood barriers and berms along the FDR Drive on the Lower East Side, the city announced a new proposal in September to entirely bury the East River Park with eight to 10 feet of fill—which would avoid nighttime highway closures, but require the park to go offline