Tag: hurricane
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Post-Sandy Rezoning at CB1
The agenda for Community Board 1’s Land Use Committee meeting tonight is a pretty sleepy affair – two BSA applications, both of which are retreads that the Board has heard in years past. However, there is one very important agenda item, which is a presentation by City Planning on the City’s proposed Flood Resilience Zoning…
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Above the Flooded Plain – Did New Waterfront Developments Fare Better?
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20121125/REAL_ESTATE/311259973
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Getting to Work
The L train is still out, but getting to Manhattan from North Brooklyn should be a little bit easier tomorrow. The M and the J trains are both going over the Williamsburg Bridge. The J will only go as far as Essex Street, but the M will have its full route through midtown reinstated. The…
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Is Brooklyn a Disaster Area?
No. A hurricane hit Brooklyn dead on, and the damage we suffered was pretty minimal. Anytime you can say that, you are lucky. Brooklyn (and all of New York City) was very lucky. We planned well and were very well prepared, but at the end of the day, we were very lucky. Huge swaths of…
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Hurricane Irene
The exact track of Hurricane Irene is still a big unknown, but it sure is looking likely that it will dump a lot of wind and water on NYC come Sunday or Monday (or both). The latest tracking (taken with a big grain of salt) even have the eye of the storm going along the…