03/15/2019MANHATTAN TRANSFERSlate: Bill de Blasio has plans to part the East River—and expects New Yorkers to follow him 500 feet into the estuary, to a new land t…
03/15/2019DE BLASIO PROPOSES $10B PLAN TO EXTEND LOWER MANHATTAN TWO BLOCKS INTO THE EAST RIVER TO FIGHT…Daily News: Mayor de Blasio proposed extending the South Street Seaport area by two city blocks into the East River — part of a $10 bil…
03/14/2019MY NEW PLAN TO CLIMATE-PROOF LOWER MANHATTANNew York Magazine: Six years ago, Hurricane Sandy slammed into New York City. The storm put 51 square miles of it under water. Seventee…
03/14/2019MAYOR DE BLASIO’S $10 BILLION PLAN TO SAVE MANHATTAN FROM RISING SEA LEVELS: NYC PROPOSES EXTENDINGDaily Mail: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has revealed a plan to protect Lower Manhattan from rising sea levels by surrounding it …
03/14/2019DE BLASIO’S $10B PLAN TO PROTECT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE IS BIG ON AMBITION, LIGHT ON FUNDINGPolitico: Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday unveiled his latest plan to protect Lower Manhattan from the threat of climate change, propo…
03/14/2019DE BLASIO LAYS OUT $10B PROPOSAL TO EXTEND SHORELINE TO PROTECT NYC FROM STORMSNY1: A new climate resiliency plan announced by the mayor on Thursday would expand Manhattan’s southern shoreline up to 500 feet into t…
03/13/2019EAST RIVER ALLIANCE COMMUNITY MEETING MARCH 13A group of community members have formed the East River Alliance to discuss issues regarding the East Side Costal Resilience Plan such as: …
03/12/2019HOBOKEN DESIGN ZONE WORKSHOP MARCH 12, 2019The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) invites the communities of Jersey City, Hoboken and Weehawken to an upcoming Des…
03/11/2019LEARNING FROM HURRICANE SANDY: THE ROLE OF DESIGN IN REBUILDING PUERTO RICOJoin us on March 11, 2019 in San Juan Puerto Rico as we present on how Design can play a strong role in the reubilding of Puerto Rico. Ma…
03/08/2019TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE, NYC MAY EXPAND LOWER MANHATTAN INTO EAST RIVERGothamist: Nearly six years after the Bloomberg administration proposed the idea of building a counterpart to Battery Park City, the de…
03/06/2019LICNYC: A DESIGN PERSPECTIVEManaging Director Amy Chester will speak at Van Alen's roundtable: LICNYC: A Design Perspective Wednesday, March 6th, 7:00 p.mat Van A…
03/06/2019OVERHAUL OF STORM PROTECTION PLAN OUTRAGES DOWNTOWN RESIDENTSPatch.com: A massive $1.45 billion project designed to avoid a repeat of the devastation Hurricane Sandy wreaked on Downtown Manhattan will …