Dear Community Leader,
Our city has endured tremendous hardships with the onset of more frequent and intense rainfall
events. In the face of this challenge comes an extraordinary opportunity to rethink its physical
and social infrastructure to reduce the risk from heavy rain while creating benefits for New
Yorkers every day.
The Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice and the NYC Department of
Environmental Protection, with Rebuild by Design and One Architecture and Urbanism, are
launching an open call for individuals and organizations who have lived or professional
expertise to recommend strategies and policies to address the increasing rainfall in New
York City. This work builds on an initiative launched by Rebuild by Design and One Architecture
to Rainproof NYC, as well as the City's efforts to improve flood resilience, including strategies
outlined in “PlaNYC: Getting Sustainability Done.”
Apply here by December 11 to express interest in joining a working group.
The Rainproof NYC working groups will have 15-20 members, split between NYC agency staff
and community leaders. The working groups will convene regularly from January 2024 to June
2024 and collaboratively propose new, or expand existing, policies, programs, and projects to
increase New York City’s resilience to heavy rainfall.
Each group will focus on the following topic areas. As part of the application, we ask that you
prioritize which group you would like to take part in:
● WORKING GROUP 1: How can we shift NYC’s policies and priorities to create a
comprehensive plan to prepare for increasing rainfall? Address gaps in infrastructure
and risk management to protect from and prepare New Yorkers for more intense
precipitation.
● WORKING GROUP 2: What does an equitable buyout program look like for NYC?
Inform the development of the City's Housing Mobility & Land Acquisition Program
announced in “PlaNYC: Getting Sustainability Done.”
● WORKING GROUP 3: How can we build capacity among communities, the private
sector, and CBO's to share responsibility to address increased heavy rainfall? Every
drop counts. Build out an education and communications campaign to build the
capacities of communities, the private sector, CBO's, local nonprofits, and other
agencies to do their part in managing increasing heavy rainfall.
We strive for diversity in the composition of each group across lived and professional expertise
and across intersectional identities. If you know someone who will bring new and unique
perspectives to these topics, please encourage them to apply too.
If selected, Rebuild will provide non-government members a stipend of $1500 at the end
of the process to support your high-level commitment. For those who cannot commit but
may want to stay involved, there will be various other opportunities to participate in working
towards a Rainproof NYC. We will continue to keep you apprised of those opportunities, even if
you choose not to apply to participate in a working group.
If you believe you have the expertise and availability to participate in a working group,
please APPLY HERE by noon on December 11, 2023. If you are accepted, you will be
invited to an afternoon half-day kickoff meeting that will be held on January 9, 2023 (please
hold your calendar for that date). Selected working group participants will be notified on or
around December 19.
If you have any questions, email Rifal Imam at rimam@rebuildbydesign.org.
Sincerely,
The Rainproof NYC Steering Committee:
Rebuild by Design
The NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice
NYC Department of Environmental Protection
The NYC Mayor’s Office of Housing Recovery Operations
One Architecture and Urbanism
Mayor Adams took his 5% austerity machete to cut budgets from schools, libraries and the FDNY for these workshops to pay people to be make believe city planners to "mitigate" water coming from the sky. Workshops are the biggest farces going on in this town.
24 comments:
Stop paving front lawns and backyards ! Simple right ?
Good that they are doing something useful besides pandering to car totalitarians.
Maybe we should all invest in the umbrella industry?
@"Stop paving front lawns and backyards ! Simple right ?"
Any time you see this, call 311 or go online, No Building Permit - Construction
Very surprisingly, the Building department will act on this within a day or two.
Within a couple of weeks, you'll see your out-of-town developer send in the Jack Hammer crew to dig up most of that concrete and replace it with either a lawn or a deep water trap.
Seen this a few times in my neighborhood which is in a high elevation area.
I can teach them the “No Rain” dance.
Anonymous said...
Good that they are doing something useful besides pandering to car totalitarians.
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LUNACY right there....
#AGENDA2030
"You will own nothing, you will eat bugs and like them, all your electric usage will be monitored and rationed, you will obey all commands without question or hesitancy"
You will obey all commands without question or hesitancy
Unless you are an illegal invader. In that case you can go anywhere you want and all your needs will be provided. And as a bonus you can shoplift.
A theoretical question: If the governor of sends you and your family off to a quarantine camp, can a deserving “immigrant family” be moved into your home?
And they expected us to roll up our sleeves ?
How many dollars of taxpayer money are being wasted on this ?
Just like how they want you to replace your furnace with a heat pump, so you can go broke freezing in the winter.
They’re critical Climate theorists with nose piercings and a distaste for Western values.
Workshops, workshops and more workshops all over the place, then include all the $$ grants for hip hop and art gallery and finger-paint class shit.
Always started up by wiseguys who know how to work and abuse the system.
Like AOC amd Marjorie Vasquez's bullshit with City Island bragging "The first 2 black own business on City Island" (the Island Pharmacy and Hip hop café)
The city gave them the loot $$$ to blockbust the street and guess what happened?
A: Both cases the thugs stayed around 3 months cried "these dam white people, nobody wants to buy our pigs feet and $25 hamburgers"
The store/pharmacy had no stock not even a license for pharmacy
"Hardship Hardship hardship, boo hoo hoo" then used the place as a hangout, sub rental for black lives meetings, drank and smoke dope, then pocketed the money (OUR TAX DLLARS)stiffed the landlords. Then SPLIT to Dominican Republic. Both these piece of shit proprietors and their attorneys bought a homes and Mercedes Benz's in Santa Domingo with the grant funds. --No investigation, nothing!!
Now the whole strip is a boarded up mess with "For rent signs" an dogshit covered sidewalks, illegals, burglars and prostitutes (HORDES OF THEM) at night in the doorways and ally's. You need a frigaan gun just to take out your recycle bags because e these people ask you for money and fight over the bottles and cans
These grants for shit like this are all SCAMS to blockbust and ram garbage down people throats.
Thats one reason the city is near bankrupt.
You cant give votes or free money to thugs and jackasses, people better learn that lesson or this city will be completely in the stone ages within 1 year!!
-Joe
@"A theoretical question: If the governor of sends you and your family off to a quarantine camp, can a deserving “immigrant family” be moved into your home?"
This isn't Palestine, where European settlers could just go in and burn the natives out of their homes just to get free land and homes.
@""You will own nothing, you will eat bugs and like them"
Go on. Tell us what they taste like?
"They’re critical Climate theorists with nose piercings and a distaste for Western values.
What western values are those? Is it believing that a bunch of guys running around the Middle East wearing togas had supernatural powers?
Seems like it was some cover up for a gay community in a Bronze Age desert. Besides, they didn't live in the West.
What other Western Values? Oh, ok, stealing other people's land. Bombing other countries to distract the steeple. Training dictators to mess up the whole of South America?
Hmmmm.
@Krazy Joe must have just come out from his weekly KKK meeting at the local Kweens Klavern.
Time to invade the D.R?
Is that a photo of Zeus?
Jehovah will be pissed if he sees that.
Excuse me for not having much confidence, sad very sad.
Where do I sign up? $1500 is nothing to sneeze at. But sitting through those “workshops” - ie : mind control sessions would be torture.
Oh yeah government grants - so they can do multi media spoken word performances with our tax dollars to tell us how terrible and awful white people are. This is how they condone and rationalize extreme violence and hatred of whites. Teach your children? These community groups brainwash children to hate whites.
Sounds like they’ve destroyed the once very nice community of City Island and made it into a multi cultural shit hole. It’s the prostitutes I’m worried about. They may reproduce.
"multi cultural shit hole"
Exactly, the city destroyed a white community it didn't like with these workshops and grants. And yes these "workshops" are all run by communists to brainwash the younger folks. They always use friendly names to keep stealth till they get a foot in the door.
These also serve a meeting places at night for bad elements to look around and see what other shit they can "bring in"
True, I stood outside listening to a meeting hosted by "City Island Rising" activists at the Clipper Coffee shop. (a recent communist hipshit hangout complete with biting dogs on its chairs & sofas)
It was all brainwashing propaganda and scare tactics.
Other "workshops" targeted at kids doing gay art for another activist group, then use these kids (as solders) to post the banners an shit on people homes. Or 2 if you say NO call you "racist" and come back with adult re-enforcements and a activist lawyer to chalk paint a LBGT, Tranny or Black lives fist on the sidewalk in front of your home.
They tear down and take away American flags too so you cant put them back up!
I was even amazed how fast City island turned to shit. Multicultural septic tank indeed. I can go on for 8 pages but will address the prostitutes.
Yes prostitutes and pimps, they work these Hip Hop booze cruses out of the boat yards. Sex on on dry-docked boats, cars in parking lots.
Then when the boats come back all these are drunk are out on the street. They go with the whores in the alleys between the homes. These whores go up and down the street often changing their clothes and defecating between homes, looking for open doors, hanging out on people front porches.
5 hookers eating Sams fish takeout beat a woman home owner on pilot street on her own front porch for telling them "get TF off my property" "its not a trashcan" The police did nothing, didn't even want to look at the camera recordings.
Another case 10PM a 400 pound or so black male banging on a rolldown demanding the Anthony's pizzeria owner re-open to make him a pizza.
Loud screaming tells the owner he was coming back with his gun to kill him, all the white people and Italians on the Island.
Cops called. Again the cops did nothing, they gave the bastard thug a ride instead !!
Cops Quote: Since nobody was hurt or shot we can not arrest him, we will get reprimanded if we do. When an accused is black, fighting, angry and may resist arrest we are only required to de-escalate the situation.
Anthonys pizza closed, he had enough of the bullshit.
Now "City Island Pizza" with a government grant, people who paid ZERO, including a 2nd grant for vandals to paint the building in ghetto graffiti art style.
Grants for vandalism?
Looks like shit 3 doors down from Black Whale, you need a gun to sit at a table outside.
Black motorcycle gangs with ghost license plates commodore tables and chairs as meeting grounds, eat takeout from Sams tossing shells, garbage and sauce tins on the ground. Rats at night, Every business owner now.
Illegal males follow woman all times of the day and night, break into cars too.
I place 1/2 the blame its own residents, old, self blinded and set in their ways refusing to see bad being snuck in the door.
Why do elderly refuse to see bad things "Ahh its not gonna happen" "the city cant do that" "we will be called racists" and "not getting involved, didn't see anything"
A neighbor saw me packing my leaf blower, garden tools and asked, whats going on, why I stopped sweeping the street (Hawkins Street) and keeping things nice.
I basically said "FU lazy people" -NO MORE!
We're tired of cleaning up, possibly ending up in jail fighting for your lazy asses, You now get what you deserve!!
When you don't or not willing to fight hard like those people in Staten Island did over that illegal immigrant shelter you WILL get shit on.
-Joe
There is a reason all these Electurds spend other people's tax money so well.
It's they are all Marxist liberals first Americans last.
Joe I wish you lived on my block.
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar
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