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NY Daily News: What if Pizza Rat told New Yorkers to check their subway route for possible closures before or during heavy rains. Mr. Met co…

Interesting Engineering: The $60M federal grant (Rebuild by Design) plus state funds yielded a ~$107–111M project (in 2020 dollars). Civil c…

North Jersey: According to Rebuild by Design's Atlas of Disaster: New Jersey, the state has experienced 14 federally declared major disaster…

Katie Couric: “Trump has come out with his guns blazing against FEMA,” New York University’s Rebuild By Design director Amy Chester tells us…

Spectrum News TX: “FEMA is frontline aid for states across the country,” said Amy Chester, director of Rebuild by Design, a New York Univers…

The Hill: The nonpartisan organization Rebuild by Design notes that 40 states experienced 10 or more major disasters (those causing more tha…

Times of San Diego: Rebuild by Design “put designers in the driver’s seat to come up with ideas as to how to protect Manhattan from the next…

The Cool Down: New York City has a new elevated waterfront park, and the first section just opened to the public 13 years after Hurricane Sa…

The Guardian: ‘The whole idea was to use the park as the “wall” that would protect the community behind it, but also give the community new …

EESI: After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, New Jersey received U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funding for two adaptation project…

Patch: In a recent study conducted by Rebuild by Design (RBD), 1.3 million people in New Jersey live in high flood risk areas, with half of …