Financial District and Seaport section plan of city coastal resilience strategy, to include drainage improvements and extension of Manhattan land up to 200 ft into the river, could cost $5 billion or more.
At the nine-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy hitting the Northeast, the agency is executing and planning numerous greenlit projects from Coney Island to Montauk Point, and beyond.
New technology is being used to reinforce the 90-year old Afsluitdijk dike, which has been delayed by miscalculations in water level and wave data provided to the contractor.