In June 2013, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) established the Governor's Office of Storm Recovery to aid communities—outside New York City—affected by 2012's Superstorm Sandy and 2011's Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. Since then, GOSR has guided the rebuilding of nearly 10,000 houses, provided $20.8 million in small-business grants and facilitated the proposal of 600 resilience projects through the New York Rising Community Reconstruction Program, according to a recent GOSR report, called "New York Rising: 2012-2014."
"There is a pipeline of projects coming out of planning and going into design and construction," says Niek Veraart, engineer Louis Berger's vice president of environmental planning. LB worked on the report with Perkins Eastman Architects and BFJ Planning.