By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Alexandros Washburn, an architect, urban planner and designer experienced first-hand the flooding of his neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Moved to find ways to make cities more resilient he became a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
April 21, 2013 This is PortSide NewYork's hurricane Sandy story. A personal report by Carolina Salguero, Director of PortSide, speaking as Shipkeeper of the MARY A. WHALEN. This installment covers PortSide's time in port preparing...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Zoltán Glück was a graduate student when Sandy hit, and he worked with Occupy Sandy doing recovery work in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Occupy Sandy, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, was a major and innovative force for Sandy recovery in New...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Matt Kraushar, dubbed “Medical Matt,” set up a Red Hook Sandy recovery medical team. He was a medical student living on Van Brunt Street when Sandy hit. He learned from Katrina that medical issues that were managed under normal conditions...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Camille Casaretti, president of the community education council 15 (cec15), stopped by to see how the sign and map could be used for educating school groups. She was greeted by Portside executive director Carolina Salguero dressed as bioluminescence...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Carolina Salguero and PortSide NewYork won a White House “Champions of Change award in 2013 for protecting the MARY A. WHALEN from the storm and then offering Sandy recovery services to Red Hook. The Obama administration was smart and used the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Street Flooding Report Street flooding to NYC by calling 311 or by going to their 311 website . There is a detailed questionaire to report flooding on the the website, that allows you to submit images and other attachments. Sewer Backups...
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By The Red Hook WaterStories team
HighWaterLine was a public artwork on the New York city waterfront - including Red Hook, Brooklyn- by Eve Mosher an artist deeply concerned with the affects of climate change. During the summer of 2007, she walked, chalked and marked almost 70...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
YES, post hurricane Sandy, Red Hook has been, and still is being, intensely studied by the city, state and federal government; and it is being studied by many academic projects as well. Here is a quick overview of multiple government-funded plans...
