07/18/2019EAST RIVER PARK REBUILD PLAN IS A ‘JOKE,’ SAY LOWER EAST SIDERSGothamist: The first stage of City Hall’s East Side Coastal Resiliency project to fortify lower Manhattan against future clim…
07/17/2019SERIOUS QUESTIONS REMAIN AS EAST RIVER RESILIENCY PROJECT HEADS TO MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENTBowery Boogie: Back in mid-May, the Parks Department shared a presentation with the Community Board 3 Parks subcommittee regarding the&…
07/16/2019EAST SIDE RESILIENCY PLAN FACES KEY HEARINGCity Limits: The de Blasio administration has a plan to shore up the Lower East Side’s defenses against rising seawaters. It will also …
07/12/2019CITY UNVEILS PRELIMINARY EAST SIDE FLOOD PROTECTION PLAN AT CB MEETINGCurbed: City officials presented a preliminary design for the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR) on Thursday night at a Commun…
07/10/2019MANHATTAN BP WANTS TO STALL RESILIENCY HEARING BY 2 MONTHSThe Patch: Manhattan's borough president wants the city to further delay a hearing on a massive storm protection project on the Lower E…
07/10/2019MANHATTAN BEEP STALLS PLANS FOR LOWER EAST SIDE ‘RESILIENCY’ PROJECTStreetsblog NYC: The Manhattan Borough President is demanding that the city provide guarantees of access to parks and recreation and in…
06/28/2019COULD HOBOKEN BECOME A NATIONAL MODEL FOR STORM RESILIENCY?NJTV: All of New Jersey was slammed by Superstorm Sandy, but Hoboken took it on the chin. Two-thirds of the city lies in FEMA’s flood z…
06/20/2019BERMS AREN’T ENOUGH: NYC SHIFTS COURSE ON “BIG U” RESILIENCE PLANThe Dirt: To protect against future super storms and long-term sea level rise, New York City proposed creating a set of landscaped berm…
06/14/2019WILL NEW YORK’S NEW SEA WALL PROTECT THE CITY FROM CLIMATE CHANGE?Curbed NY: Seven years after Superstorm Sandy, New York City has rebuilt housing, reopened beaches, and prioritized crucial r…
06/14/2019BRIDGEPORT: CITY ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF NEW PLAN BRIDGEPORT WEBSITECT Post: BRIDGEPORT — The launch and presentation of the new Plan Bridgeport website will occur at 6 p.m. on June 19, the city Planning…
06/13/2019PANIC AND PROTEST OVER EAST RIVER PARK-CLOSURE PLANThe Villager: At a June 11 public hearing about the city’s East Side Coastal Resiliency plan, Lower East Side residents mostly disappro…
06/12/2019PROTECTIVE PARK POTENTIALHudson Reporter: Last week the Rebuild by Design Project team presented two park concepts for Hoboken Cove Park both of which include p…
06/07/2019HURRICANE SANDY-RESILIENCE PROJECT AT HOBOKEN YARDS ADVANCESNJ Biz: New Jersey Transit is moving forward with a Hurricane Sandy resilience project with a call for bids on the construction co…
06/04/2019NEW JERSEY CITIES WILL BE UNDER WATER BY THE END OF THE CENTURYNews 12: A new study suggests that nine New Jersey cities will be almost entirely underwater and uninhabitable by the end of the 21st C…
05/27/2019THE CONCRETE JUNGLE HAS 578 MILES OF SHORELINE AT RISKNY Times: In New York City, it’s often easy to think that ocean conservation is an issue for someplace else — tropical islands, coral r…
05/24/2019HERE’S THE MEETING LINE-UP ON THE EAST RIVER PARK RESILIENCY PLANThe Patch: Want to weigh in on the East River Park resiliency project? Have a specific question? Various meetings and hearings are s…