Resiliency
RESILIENCY 101. A deep resource section with info on how to prepare for a flood (short and long term), an overview of resiliency plans for Red Hook including NYCHA's, maps that show Sandy flooding and damage to trees. Includes historic and modern studies of the sewer system and maps that show what parts of Red Hook were once water-- all of which effects current flooding. Info on how to get involved in Red Hook's resiliency planning group the NY Rising Committee, and more!
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1 Chiclet, PortSide Ship Cat, thoughts on preparing for a flood
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 explain how to…
2 Resiliency: Flood Prep Info for Red Hook
By Carolina Salguero, Special to Red Hook WaterStories
Hurricane Sandy was a destructive example of Red Hook WaterStories. This section “resiliency: flood prep” is an effort to help Red Hook better prepare for future floods. For more about PortSide…
3 Ready Red Hook
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 effort to…
4 Storm Prep info - SBIDC Dewberry training session
Storm Preparedness For Small Business, an excellent event organized by SBIDC took place on 9/17/13. The tips are also useful for home owners and non-profits, and much of it also applies for areas besides Red Hook.
SBIDC set up this day-long program…
5 How tide and wind affect flooding in Red Hook
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.…
6 Sandy Storm Surge map, 2012
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 Sandy and prepare for future floods. Jim donated the map for fundraisers, and it is…
7 Sandy Damage to Red Hook Trees
2013 Sandy Flood saline impacted tree survey for the Parks Department
8 High Ground NYC, a flood evacuation app for vehicles - in development
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 Red…
9 Overview of Red Hook Resiliency Plans
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).
10 Resilient Red Hook, formerly Red Hook NY Rising Committee
Get involved with the evolving Resilient Red Hook committee to help plan Red Hook resiliency and development.After hurricanes Irene and Sandy, New York State created the NY Rising program, and Red Hook's NY Rising committee was one of many created…
11 NYCHA information - Management Offices, Residents Associations, Sandy recovery & resiliency plans
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. The NYCHA footprint has many Red Hook WaterStories…
12 1844 Hassler Coastal survey of Staten Island and Gowanus with oyster mudflats (cropped to Gowanus Bay)
1844 Coastal Survey. Red Hook's watery past has a bearing on how this place floods in current times. This map shows the topography at the end of Red Hook's tide mill pond era, meaning that much of what is today called Red Hook is still…
13 Map of Historic Location of Creeks and Streams in Red Hook & Gowanus, 2014
This map contains community group research (Gowanus Canal Conservancy / Public Lab) on finding stream restoration opportunities in the Gowanus Watershed. It uses hydrological surface flow modeling by Eymund Diegel. This map looks at alternative…
14 Gowanus Watershed With 1766 Marshes and 2013 Sandy Flood Line
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…
15 Open Sewer Atlas NYC
You've heard of watersheds, this project is about sewersheds. The sewer system impacts flooding in Red Hook both in terms of overflows coming up into the street from storm drains and backing up into buildings via their sewer lines. The…
16 Sewerage, Erie Basin and The Report of the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission of New York, 1910
Sample No. 2, Marked from 017 Erie Basin.
Found: Numerous small worms resembling round worms, 0r Nematodes. Numerous diatoms, Oogonia, Conferva filaments, bits of wood, considerable plant epidermis. Ulothrix, Botryococcus braunii, Schizomeris…
17 32 Oral Histories from Red Hook Sandy Survivors, 2012
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 (EMMP) in…
18 New York Harbor Observing and Prediction System (NYHOPS) Red Hook Recording Station
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 Ocean…
19 Gowanus Canal Storm Surge Barrier Study, 2016
The Goawnus Canal Storm Surge Barrier Study was presented to the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the Mayor's Office of Recovery and Resiliency. The report looks at the feasability of future studies and actions the City and the Army…