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In Preview of NY Climate Mitigation Strategy, a Menu of Options

Formed by Gov.Publication Date: Sun, 01/06/2013

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Sandy Already Changing How Buildings are Designed in NYC

Julie Satow examines the ways in which owners and developers of potentially vulnerable properties in New York are planning to invest in costly waterproofing measures.  Publication Date: Fri, 01/11/2013

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What the Sandy Recovery Bill Gets Wrong

The $50 billion in post-Sandy spending approved by the House this week was divided into a "baseline bill" that includes $17 billion for immediate recovery efforts, and an amendPublication Date: Mon,...

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Building Storm Defenses While Turning a Profit

Hurricane Sandy has brought the need for effective disaster planning to the forefront, but the question remains as to how critical Publication Date: Fri, 01/18/2013

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Katrina and Sandy: Devastating Storms, But That's Where the Similarities End

Gratz compares the causes, impacts, and responses to Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy.Publication Date: Thu, 01/17/2013

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Bracing for Sandy's Second Impact

Alison Leigh Cowan looks at the next hit from Hurricane Sandy that's bearing down on localities across the New York region, most of which are still struggling to clean up.Publication Date: Thu, 01/24/2013

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Sandy Damaged Homes Sold 'As Is' for Millions

"People ask me, ‘Should I fix my house and then put it up?’ But I don’t know if the value will be there.Publication Date: Mon, 01/28/2013

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NYC Relaxes Zoning to Ease Rebuilding

Following on Monday's release of FEMA's new provisional flood maps, the Bloomberg administration "issued an executive order suspending certain zoning restrictions, such as building heights, which might...

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Cuomo Proposes Bold Plan to Return NY Coastline to Nature

Doubling down on his statements in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy that "New York needs to reconsider the way it develops its coast," has proposed a buyout program using money from the $51 billion...

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Burned by Sandy, Hoboken Seeks to Become Model for Hurricane Resilience

Kate Zernike profiles the efforts of mayor Zimmer "to make it a test case for a new model of hurricane resilience, one that could be translated to other cities in the Northeast that rising seas have...

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Building a Better Dune

Hurricane Sandy made the value of natural defenses much more apparent to coastal communities throughout the Northeast.Publication Date: Fri, 02/15/2013

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Rebuild or Retreat? NY Pols Take Sides in Post-Sandy Debate

Matt Chaban reports on the growing debate over whether to retreat from New York's vulnerable coastal areas or rebuild smarter in place. This week, Senator Charles Schumer waded into the debate, joining...

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Should Architects Be Allowed to Assist in Disaster Recovery?

Matt Chaban examines how New York's lack of Good Samaritan laws, and fears of lawsuits, prevented hundreds of willing architects and engineers from helping in post-Sandy building...

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N.J. Town Considers 'Radical Surgery' to Prevent Future Floods

Peter Applebome looks at the long shot solution that officials in Highlands, New Jersey view as the best option to save their town: "...Highlands officials are increasingly focused on one bit of...

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Poor Renters, not Middle Class Homeowners, Were Hardest Hit by Sandy

Matt Chaban discusses the findings of two new studies released this week - one by the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at NYU [PDF], the other by affordable housing developers...

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Variety of Rebuilding Approaches Befuddle Sandy Victims

Recent articles in Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal reveal how two divergent post-Sandy rebuilding strategies - New York State's plan to compensate residents to retreat and the City of New York's...

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Investigation Exposes New Jersey Transit's Botched Sandy Prep

The results of a months-long investigation by WNYC/New Jersey Public Radio and The Record reveal the widly divergent ways in which NPublication Date: Mon, 05/13/2013

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Rush to Rebuild Could Cause Long-Term Damage to NY/NJ Beaches

"Nearly seven months after Hurricane Sandy decimated the northeastern coastline, destroying houses and infrastructure and dumping 11 billion gallons of untreated and partially treated sewage into...

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With NYC's Plan to Elevate Buildings, Chaban Asks 'Will Jane Jacobs Float?'

"Up and down the coast of New York and New Jersey, property owners are being forced to raise their homes and businesses above a new 100-year floodplain drawn up and mandated by the Federal Emergency...

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On the Waterfront in Post-Sandy New York

For several years New York City has been exploring how to plan for climate change, but last fall Hurricane Sandy exposed the many vulnerabilities of the coastal metropolis. As Tom Vanderbilt writes:...

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