05/29/2025
Gothamist: One of the largest projects designed to protect Manhattan from a catastrophic flood has reached a new milestone with the opening …
Press
05/29/2025
Construction Equipment Guide: Meadowlands Stadium area in NJ prone to flooding; NJDEP's $150M Rebuild by Design project aims to reduce flood…
05/23/2025
NYC: “The first section of the $1.45 billion East Side Coastal Resiliency project is a unique achievement that was completed ahead of schedu…
05/06/2025
Kansas City Star: But a disaster here and a disaster there can add up. The “Atlas of Disaster,” a database from New York University, reveals…
05/06/2025
SI Live: The beach also has a fantastic view of the rock islands of the Living Breakwaters project in Raritan Bay.
The rock islands aid i…
04/28/2025
Fast Company: According to a study published today by Rebuild by Design, an organization dedicated to using design solutions to solve comple…
04/28/2025
Associated Press: Disasters affect the vast majority of Americans — 95% live in a county that has had a federally declared weather disaster …
04/25/2025
NY1: It’s become a regular occurrence here in New York City: A powerful rainstorm overwhelms the city’s infrastructure, causing flood damage…
04/10/2025
Queens Chronicle: Amy Chester, director of the NYU program Rebuild by Design, then discussed the potential for green space to mitigate such …
04/08/2025
Habitat Mag: “The sooner we decide as a city to invest in resilience measures to help neighborhoods adapt — whether it’s to fortify or to mo…
04/07/2025
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…
04/07/2025
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 …
04/01/2025
The City: Amy Chester, director of resiliency nonprofit Rebuild By Design, saw “Flood Sensor Aunty” in Astoria, Queens, in September and was…
03/31/2025
The Hill: No part of the United States, red or blue, is exempt from weather disasters. Rebuild by Design, a disaster-mitigation think tank, …
03/28/2025
News Break: Amy Chester, director of Rebuild by Design, agrees with Castor’s concerns. She explains that transferring FEMA’s responsibilitie…
03/26/2025
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…