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The East Village Patch: EAST VILLAGE, NY — The city recently announced major changes to a 2.4-mile flood barrier designed to prevent the Lower East Side from inundating with water during severe storms. The barrier is part of the city’s East Side Coastal Resiliency Project, which stretches from Montgomery Street up to E. 25th Street, with a […]

The Architect’s Newspaper: Manhattan’s East River Park is expected to receive a massive facelift—and sooner than expected. Last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration announced an update to nearly 70 percent of the design for the long-awaited East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR). The new $1.45-billion-plan will not only speed up the construction process and shift heavy construction work away from

6Sqft: In July, the city released an RFP for a stewardship partner for the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR), a  reconstruction of the 64-acre, 1.5-mile East River Park, a flood protection system conceived in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. ESCR is the first of three phases in Bjarke Ingels’ Big U, a series of self-sufficient flood zones stretching from West 57th to

Crain’s New York Business: The de Blasio administration on Friday announced major changes to a 2.4-mile barrier designed to protect the Lower East Side from floods. The revision calls for jacking up portions of East River Park to protect it from storm surges and condensing the construction time line to ensure that the city qualifies for

Curbed: The city has announced major changes to the design for part of the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR), a proposal that has been in the works for several years and aims to protect against catastrophic flooding by building a “resilient park” along the East River from Montgomery Street on the Lower East Side to East 25th

Politico: The de Blasio administration on Friday unveiled a dramatically different plan for the East Side Coastal Resiliency project than the one previously pitched — a move that is drawing skepticism from those who helped formulate the original version. In 2014, roughly two years after Superstorm Sandy, New York City was awarded $335 million in funding

NY Post: The city wants to lift up East River Park by several feet to prevent the FDR Drive and homes behind it from flooding, officials announced on Friday. The city said that it will raise the park an average of eight to 10 feet between 13th and Cherry streets through various engineering methods. “This will

FOX5NY: In 2014, the federal government awarded New York City hundreds of millions of dollars to make improvements so that the next time a coastal storm comes around we don’t see the same level of catastrophic flooding as we did in Superstorm Sandy. But some of the projects are behind schedule, according to Amy Chester, the managing