Lucas Feuser

The idea of resilience can easily be invoked to protect the status quo and foreclose more transformative change, but resilience can be more just. Jill Eisenhard from RHI describes how they talked about resilience with Red Hook youth way before Sandy hit. And resilience, for them, was both the strength, motivation, or confidence within each of them... See more

“The city’s sewer system, the storm-water management system does not have the capacity to process water when you go above an inch and a half, an inch and three-quarters, in an hour,” Janno Lieber, the MTA’s chairman and CEO, told PIX11 on Tuesday. “Last night that rainfall was more than two inches in an hour; that’s when you get the backup into the... See more

The last couple of times we spoke, in January and December of 2023, we discussed how New York City hadn’t seen any snow in ages. Since then, we finally broke that record-setting streak. But our last actually big storm was when? Four, five years ago?

We had one in 2021. But the last big, big one was 2016, which ended up being the all-time greatest... See more

There’s one large-scale plan that I end up critiquing quite a bit in the book called the Giant Sea Wall. It’s a plan to create, really, a whole new city on reclaimed land in the bay, with these very large retention ponds that could be pumped low enough that the rivers and canals in the city could drain into them. The planners think they need... See more

Their renter’s insurance didn’t cover natural disasters — only flooding from building malfunctions, such as burst pipes — and the FEMA flood relief they received came to just $250.