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 …
03/01/2019SEE LIVING BREAKWATERS AT THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY EXHIBITION “HUDSON RISING”This spring, the New-York Historical Society presents Hudson Rising, a unique exhibition that explores 200 years of ecological change a…
02/28/2019ESCR UPDATE FOR FEBRUARY 2019The City continues to refine the new plan for ESCR, including ecology and upland drainage. This month the City presented to the CB…
02/28/2019MEADOWLANDS UPDATE FOR FEBRUARY 2019On February 8, 2019, HUD signed the "Authorization to Use Grant Funds" which authorizes the use of construction funds for the pro…