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Arch Paper: Manhattan’s East River Park, home to sprawling fields, winding bike paths, and a landscaped promenade, was badly damaged when Hurricane Sandy tore through the city in 2012 and the Lower East Side flooded. Since then, New York City officials have been brainstorming ideas to protect the park, along with the remainder of Lower Manhattan, from rising seas. The city’s latest

NYTimes: The crowd at the recent meeting of Community Board 3 was agitated. Vaylateeba Jones, a 50-year Lower East Side resident and board official, was especially vocal. “The way this planning is being done is disempowering,” she said. “City officials collaborated with us over four years and came up with a detailed design — only

Grist: Check out how Grist’s explains Hoboken’s “Resist, Store, Delay, Discharge” project in “Inside a City Redesigned for Climate Change” using sponges and legos to demonstrate the comprehensive plan. WATCH HERE>>

CNN Newsource: The New York Harbor for years has been polluted and depleted of marine life. But one nonprofit is working to clean the murky water and revive its long-lost ecosystem — one oyster at a time. The Billion Oyster Project has worked since 2014 to rebuild oyster reefs in the waters surrounding New York

CT Post: In a new plan to address flooding in the South End of Bridgeport, city officials see an opportunity to kick-start private investment and development in the waterfront area. “I think there are many things that our project is directly addressing but also I think we’ve been able to bring together a lot of different