DeFalco details major coastal resilience projects
DeFalco lists 16 active BCR projects, including Eastside Coastal Resilience, Brooklyn Bridge Montgomery, Staten Island seawall, Seaport, and Red Hook. She gives costs, lengths, and populations protected.
Among the largest are the Eastside Coastal Resilience, Brooklyn Bridge Montgomery Coastal Resilience, the U.S.
Army Corps'Staten Island Seawall, Seaport Coastal Resilience, and the Red Hook Coastal Resilience Project, among many others.
The Eastside Coastal Resilience Project represents a $1.46 billion investment that provides 2.4 miles of coastal protection from East 25th Street to Montgomery Street.
It's designed to protect approximately 110,000 New Yorkers, including roughly 28,000 residents of public housing.
And it's designed to protect them from a 100-year coastal storm while accounting for projected sea level rise through 2050.
The Brooklyn Bridge Montgomery Coastal Resiliency Project is a $388 million project that will protect approximately 44,000 residents along a half-mile stretch between Montgomery Streets and the Brooklyn Bridge.
The South Shore of Staten Island seawall is a $2.4 billion project that will protect over 30,000 New Yorkers.
Superstorm Sandy claimed the most lives of any New York City borough.
This project rebuilds the FDR boardwalk with a 5.5 mile long continuous protection.
The $228 million Seaport Coastal Resilience Project will extend protection from Brooklyn Bridge to John Street.
And in Brooklyn, the $208 million Red Hook Coaster Resiliency Project will create approximately two miles of protection along the Red Hook waterfront, including the Atlantic Basin and Beard Street, benefiting approximately 6,000 residents.
Over the next four years, these and other projects will increasingly move from plans on paper to actual infrastructure protecting New Yorkers.