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6sqft: A decade ago, an Atlantic hurricane-turned-superstorm named Sandy caught ready-for-anything New York City completely off guard as it raged up the East Coast from the Caribbean to Canada. On October 29, 2012, the city was blindsided by an unanticipated storm surge that flooded streets and subway tunnels and cut power. It took some areas weeks to get […]

Fast Company: Hurricane Sandy dropped 500 million gallons of water on Hoboken. Here’s how the city is preparing for the next superstorm. I’m standing on a patchwork of herringbone-patterned pavers in the middle of a park. As far as moments go, it’s a pretty uneventful one, but if I were made of raindrops coming down

Gothamist: If Hurricane Sandy were to occur again today, many of the same coastal neighborhoods it destroyed would be inundated again. But a slate of climate infrastructure projects initiated in the aftermath of the storm are now — finally — making progress along the city’s waterfront. Billions of dollars of seawalls, jetties, breakwaters, and reinforced

NY Daily News Opinion: This week, every newspaper and TV news channel is talking about the 10th anniversary of Superstorm Sandy and asking the same basic question: Are we any better off today than we were 10 years ago? However, it’s not a simple yes or no answer. The answer is that while New Yorkers are different

Gotham Gazette:October 13, 2022 – Max Politics Podcast: The Environmental Bond Act Ballot Proposal and Other Key Climate Issues Proposal 1 on the 2022 general election ballot is a statewide referendum on the $4.2 billion Environmental Bond Act, which New York voters will approve or disapprove this fall. Julie Tighe, president of the New York

Philanthropy News Digest: From record-breaking heat waves across Europe to deadly droughts and wildfires in the western United States, this past July ranked among the hottest in history and was a startling reminder that climate change is already well under way. As the far-reaching impact of global warming continues to grow increasingly visible, it’s essential that we

Salon:  The “Big U” shows how climate adaptation can succeed. It also shows how hard it is When Superstorm Sandy made landfall on October 29, 2012, it pushed 13 feet of storm surge into New York City’s harbor, sweeping across the Brooklyn and Queens waterfronts and wiping entire neighborhoods off the map in Staten Island.

The City: Gleaming new high-rise towers, built to the latest standards, stand alongside older family homes, badly in need of retrofitting. Climate change puts both at risk — although on starkly different timetables. Pamela Pettyjohn has lived in Coney Island for three decades, and she’s the first to admit that those early days were grittier.

City Limits: As the 10-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy approaches, increased frequency and intensity of storms has led to conversations about the future of New York City’s coastline communities—and whether some can remain habitable in the future. New potential funding mechanisms—including a measure that New Yorkers will see on the ballot this November—may provide an opportunity