"Inspired by the Dutch model of living with water, New York’s coastal defenses are on the rise. The city like others around the country is combining infrastructure like floodwalls with nature-based features, as it moves ahead with the largest resiliency project in the U.S."
Inspired by the Dutch model of living with water, New York’s coastal defenses are on the rise. The city — like others around the country — is combining infrastructure like floodwalls with nature-based features, as it moves ahead with the largest resiliency project in the U.S.
Three of New York City's largest climate resiliency projects undertaken in the wake of Hurricane Sandy are nowhere close to completion 10 years later and a fourth has been canceled altogether even as global warming threatens to exacerbate extreme weather events in the future.
The storm gate, which is located in Asser Levy Playground just west of the FDR Drive, is the second of 18 moveable walls that will extend just north of 23rd Street down to Montgomery Street on the Lower East Side when the entire project is complete.
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