NY Daily News
Mayor
de Blasio proposed extending the South Street Seaport area by two city
blocks into the East River — part of a $10 billion effort to fend off
rising sea levels as a result of climate change.
“We had to find something that would work, no matter how expensive or ambitious it was,” de Blasio said Thursday at a press conference downtown.
The plan, part of a resilience study released Thursday, calls for extending the shoreline by a maximum of 500 feet, or two city blocks. The new segment of the shoreline, which would be 20 feet or above current sea levels, would serve as a flood barrier during storms — but it could also be home to buildings, including potential private development, de Blasio acknowledged.
But it will be necessary to keep lower Manhattan from being underwater, he argued -- saying the city’s study had found that by 2100, 20% of the streets in area would experience daily tidal flooding, even in sunny weather.
“This is the existential threat. This is the core issue we all must face as aggressively as humanly possible,” de Blasio said.
The plan, announced six years after Hurricane Sandy swamped the city, may sound familiar to some New Yorkers — in 2013, Mayor Bloomberg proposed a similar project dubbed “Seaport City.” That plan would have leveraged private development on the new land to pay for the massive expense of building it.
De Blasio said whether the new land would contain private developments depended on whether the federal government would pony up any cash for the plan.
From the perspective of the City of New York alone, this would be extraordinarily difficult to fund. I think it comes down to simply this: if there’s federal money in play, it probably looks one way, if there’s not federal money in play, we have to get some private money and there has to be some development,” he said.
What happened to the affordable housing plan? What about emergency funding for NYCHA?
The mayor proves yet again where his priorities lie, with the real estate overlords. New development? If all those luxury towers around there are under threat now from accelerating sea level rise, why would you build more "private" development on the new shoreline
If
there is a light side to this idiotic proposal, this ten billion dollar
defense of luxury real estate from the effects of climate change seems
to be inspired not only from de Blasio's obeisance to his biggest donors
(obviously still) but from a mentally retarded female character from
the classic comedy show Arrested Development.
15 comments:
Bullshit excuse to steal and convey all these property's to developers who agree to build the seawall sections with their own money.
It could also be environmental disaster.
Disturbing that waterfront land would send millions of wooden ship parts, garbage, sludge into the rivers.
I bet the Chinese are already licking the chop sticks
NYC is bankrupt, cannot even fix the subway..
Build that flood wall! Build that flood wall! Build that flood wall!... and maybe, after trillions spent-- it buys you 30 years....Then what?
DiBlassio: 'I HAVE A GREAT PLAN TO SAVE NYC AND THE WORLD BUT FIRST UNCLE SAM HAS TO GIVE ME $10 BILLION DOLLARS'. I DONT KNOW EXACTLY HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO COUNTERACT THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE BUT $10 BILLION SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD START. THIS MAN IS A BOZZO !!
But he's the one responsible for the increase in hot air and snow jobs
He can take it from the well funded Pension fund or tax us again !
and the ignorant of NYC will rush to pay..
What about the outer boroughs where people have to deal with erosion and coastal flooding??? Surely people are more important than tourist attractions.
Not just NYC, even Boeing is broke from high falluting ideas that have not been rigorously tested. It is work noting Edmunde Burke did not oppose progress, but merely asked that it be carefully vetted. Pull out every thread at once and the entire fabric falls apart. That is what happened during the French Revolution, but also form this "tech boom".
Amazon and AI is turning all cities into ghost towns, NYC will be vacated soon. New Yorkers will live in mud huts just like almost everybody on the planet.
The tidal gauge located at the Battery shows an increase of less than 3mm / year for the last 100 years or so. It's not accelerating and in fact has been decreasing for the past few years.
So we're talking an increase of 4 inches in the next 33 years. A foot in 99 years.
Yes, the 6 inch rise in seal level over the next 100 years really requires this drastic action. Cronyism at it's best. Got to give Fugazio his props.
Sounds like a developer's dream plan, a taxpayer funded extension of Manhattan bounderies, more than it is an idea to save lower Manhattan. The best way to save NYC is to get a new Mayor.
He needs to be locked up pronto.
Lived in Maspeth my whole life... we own our home but we are getting ready to throw in the towel...my sister is begging me to GET OUT NOW...she wroks at the DA's office in Brooklyn and says crime is up 50 percent in Brooklyn....murders ..rapes...robbery and drug/weapon possession...dont believe the crap about crime at its lowest level ..its a disgrace...Citizens of NYC work hard their whole lives only to see their neighborhood go to shit and their property value go down....and the oxygen thieves on welfare do nothing to contribute to an improved society....Deblasio going to legalize weed...weed is a gateway drug ..Fortune 500 Executives might have smoked weed in high school..but I bet none of them did heroin...Legalizing drugs is a huge mistake...it will be the ruin of new generations...I can go on and on....buying our FOR SALE sign this weekend.
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