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New York Times: “The sooner we decide as a city to invest in resilience measures to help neighborhoods adapt — whether it’s to fortify or to…

NY Times: Ms. Hochul, a Democrat, questioned the wisdom of the cuts, saying the grants were “critical to help us rebuild” after a litany of …

The City: Amy Chester, director of resiliency nonprofit Rebuild By Design, saw “Flood Sensor Aunty” in Astoria, Queens, in September and was…

The Hill: No part of the United States, red or blue, is exempt from weather disasters. Rebuild by Design, a disaster-mitigation think tank, …

News Break: Amy Chester, director of Rebuild by Design, agrees with Castor’s concerns. She explains that transferring FEMA’s responsibilitie…

Fox 13: Amy Chester, the director of the non-profit Rebuild by Design, has dealt with FEMA a lot over the years and said transferring its re…

Green Builder Media: Rebuild by Design coupled innovation and global expertise with community insight to develop solutions to the most compl…

Urban Omnibus: The stories we share below, reported from the imaginations of climate adaptation expert Amy Chester, CUNY professor and activ…

The Guardian: Back in 2014, Alaska, the Pacific north-west and the midwest were identified in the New York Times as “places that will fare m…

WKYT: In this map created by Rebuild by Design, a non-profit at New York University, you can see a high concentration of incidents in easter…

AMNY: The South Battery Park City Resiliency Project (SBPCRP) in Lower Manhattan is completing its final touches just in time for the summer…

Fast Company: It’s a move that threatens the entire country—and some Republican-led districts more so. Every single state has had at least o…