07/10/2020
City Limits: When New Yorkers cast their ballots in November’s presidential race, they will also have a chance to vote on a $3 billion bond …
Press
06/01/2020
NYTimes: A billion-dollar program to protect cities from climate change is at risk of failing because of the pandemic.
Connecticut is pre…
05/06/2020
The Architects Newspaper: How do you make waterfront locations resilient to the problems caused by climate change? How can you support …
05/04/2020
New York Daily News: Last week, both Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo appointed task-forces and sector advisory councils&n…
04/02/2020
Albany Times Union Blog: Voters in New York will decide later this year if the state should borrow $3 billion to spend on various environmen…
04/01/2020
Politico: An agreement between lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on a $3 billion bond act includes some broad categories for the use of the fu…
03/25/2020
Grist: Michael Berkowitz is a student of disaster, and a guru on how cities weather them. As the former executive director of the nonpr…
02/27/2020
Politico: With the Trump administration pulling funding for a comprehensive resiliency study in New Jersey and New York, local governments a…
02/25/2020
US News: Hoboken, one of the areas in New Jersey hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy, is making progress toward completing a larg…
02/24/2020
WPIX: A $14 million grant is headed for Hoboken to help the city build a park designed to capture stormwater.
The park will be the c…
02/19/2020
AMNY: Representatives from the Parks Department, the Economic Development Corporation (EDC), and the design firm AECOM addressed Manhat…
02/19/2020
ABC: Landscape architects are finding themselves on the front lines of the climate change crisis, having to come up with creative ways …
02/10/2020
by Basil Seggos
Buffalo News: In his State of the State address, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed the first environmental bond act in N…
02/10/2020
City Limits: Opinion by Carlos Scissura, New York Building Congress
In December, Governor Andrew Cuomo issued disaster declarations for 1…
02/08/2020
NY Post: Opponents of the plan to bury East River Park in the name of flood protection are suing the city to stop the $1.4 billion proj…
02/07/2020
Curbed: A transformational plan to fill in and raise East River Park by eight feet is facing a legal battle that threatens to stall flo…