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A rendering of the bridging berm.
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the July/August 2014 issue of our print magazine. One of the projects, the multi-purpose levee, will be discussed at the Community Board 3 land use committee meeting Wednesday, July 9 at 6:30 p.m. at the Manny Cantor Center, 197 E. Broadway.
By any measure, the announcement was a big deal. On June 2, Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, came to the Jacob Riis Houses on East 10th Street to reveal that the Lower East Side had hit the jackpot. The federal government was coming forward with $335 million to build a protective berm along the East River, the result of a high-profile design contest launched following Superstorm Sandy.