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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

Gothamist: After millions of dollars and countless hours spent fielding input from Lower East Side and East Village residents, the city now plans to abandon a long-in-the-works redesign of East River Park. Instead, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced via a press release in September, the city will literally raise the park, burying much of the current infrastructure under

Politico: City officials admitted on Wednesday they failed to effectively communicate to residents the changes wrought by a last-minute overhaul of the city’s East Side Coastal Resiliency project — a multiyear project that will reshape part of Lower Manhattan to prepare for future flooding. “Did we communicate the change properly? No, and that’s on me

WNYC: With rising sea levels, parts of Manhattan are at increased risk of severe flooding, like we saw with Sandy in 2013. One form of protection could be a barrier along East River Park. But the de Blasio administration has upended a consensus about how the rebuilt park should look, by proposing its own remedy last September. “How could they