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 several...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Tide + surge + wind over water (fetch) = what you need to know. Tide Table locations: Gowanus Bay (the water south of Red Hook), The Battery in Manhattan is about a 20 minute difference from Atlantic Basin To calculate the risk of flooding at a...
Sandy essentially flooded anyone who built on the former tidal marshes. _ Map Explanation by mapmaker Eymund Diegel: Red lines are the upland Sandy flood lines (minus part the Fort Defiance Island area which is missing dry non flood area during...
