Shortly after Sandy, PortSide identified the need for a flood evacuation plan for vehicles. Current evacuation plans focus on people, but where are all the vehicles supposed to go in a city where parking spaces can be hard to find? At the 2016...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Post hurricane Sandy, Red Hook continues to be intensely studied by the city, state and federal government as well as by many academics. Jump to a quick overview of multiple government-funded plans and how they interrelate (or don't).
Google Translation: Chinese ( 中文 ), Spanish ( E spañol ) For our larger collection of resiliency info go here. For Jim McMahon's Red Hook Sandy flood map go here . Please take our short survey about flood prep Contact PortSide...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hi, I’m PortSide’s ship cat, Chiclet. Listen up. I have experience with this resiliency thing, and my celebrity status can help get the word out. I was listed in Time Out Magazine’s top NYC mascots, you know. I am here to help PortSide...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The NYCHA public housing in Red Hook is the largest NYCHA development in Brooklyn, and the second largest in New York City. It is where the overwhelming majority of Red Hook residents live. Land for the houses was condemned May, 1938, the same month...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Resilient Red Hook (RRH) group grew out of a NYS-funded program NY Rising which was a response to hurricanes Ira, Lee and Sandy. PortSide's ED Carolina Salguero was one of the appointed members of NY Rising and in RRH for a few...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Tide + surge + wind over water (fetch) = what you need to know. To calculate the risk of flooding at a location, You need to take the height of the expected storm surge, the time it is expected, and compare that time to the tide cycle in the harbor....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Wondering about Red Hook water conditions like currents, tide height, salinity? And how those relate to storms? Red Hook is home to a high-tech water monitoring device overseen by the Davidson Laboratory at Stevens Institute that runs the Urban...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hurricane Sandy hit Brooklyn around 8pm on October 29, 2012. which caused devastating flooding in Red Hook. The following 32 interviews are part of a project " Sandy: Tell Your Story" recorded by Emergency Management Methodology Partners...
This map was researched, created and generously shared with the Red Hook community by Red Hook resident Jim McMahon who wanted to help his neighbors recover from Hurricane Sandy and prepare for future floods. Jim donated the map for fundraisers, and...
