New York Needs to Become a City That Floods Now and Then
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
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The images of water pouring into subways and banks, cars submerged on Avenue A, escalators that needed to be ridden with scuba equipment, brought to mind an apocalypse of a specific kind, another lost city—Atlantis. Was this what New York could become?
A Powerless New York During Hurricane Sandy -- New York Magazine - Nymag
She and her husband mostly managed to avoid serious flooding over the years using Shop-Vacs and other diversion strategies, although once water came pouring through the sidewall from the neighbor’s flooding apartment. There was nothing they could do about that.
Kim Velsey • When Your Dream Apartment Keeps Flooding
MAS members have benefitted from a wonderful set of experiences over the past month that illuminate the complicated ways that the city has been shaped over the decades. The Department of Design and Construction hosted a hard-hat tour of the Eastside Coastal Resilience Project recently. The ECRP is the result of the lessons learned from Superstorm... See more