By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The 2012 coastal storm surge of Hurricane Sandy flooded over 75 percent of the Red Hook area. The result was huge economic losses and 10,000 people affected. The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) with the New York...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by FEMA but then deleted by the administration of President Trump. The tool lists the risk of extreme heat, hurricanes, and coastal flooding for Brooklyn as very...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Updates since close of comment period 11/15/23 press release from office of Congressman Dan Goldman: In short: the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) invoked the agency’s role as formal non-federal sponsor of HATS. NYS DEC’s...
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
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...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
PortSide was engaged to work with the 2020 Spring semester of Columbia University's graduate Historic Preservation studio which used Red Hook as a study area. At the bottom of this page, is an audio tour PortSide gave along this...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hook community members created an emergency plan to cover the 72 HOURS BEFORE AND AFTER an emergency called Ready Red Hook . This plan - for all emergencies, not just floods - was created in the aftermath of the Sandy Hurricane, in an...
