By The Red Hook WaterStories team
NYU Graduate students partnered with the office on NYC Councilmember Alexa Avilés in 2025 to create a report and recommendations on the "Revitalization of the South Brooklyn Waterfront" with a particular focus on Red Hook. Here is...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The 2012 coastal storm surge of Hurricane Sandy flooded over 75 percent of the Red Hook area. The result was huge economic losses and 10,000 people affected. The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) with the New York...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by FEMA but then deleted by the administration of President Trump. The tool lists the risk of extreme heat, hurricanes, and coastal flooding for Brooklyn as very...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
John Ryan-Henry & Austin Becker in their 2020 article in the journal Maritime Policy & Management say that in order to plan for comprehensive climate change resilience it is essential to understand the effects of coastal storm hazards...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Updates since close of comment period 11/15/23 press release from office of Congressman Dan Goldman: In short: the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) invoked the agency’s role as formal non-federal sponsor of HATS. NYS DEC’s...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Saba Mahmood's short flyer (pdf) is designed to guide residents of Red Hook (and others) in understanding their state of readiness in case of a flood. It is in English, Spanish, and Chinese, the main languages of the Red Hook...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Alexandros Washburn, an architect, urban planner and designer experienced first-hand the flooding of his neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Moved to find ways to make cities more resilient he became a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
April 21, 2013 This is PortSide NewYork's hurricane Sandy story. A personal report by Carolina Salguero, Director of PortSide, speaking as Shipkeeper of the MARY A. WHALEN. This installment covers PortSide's time in port preparing...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Zoltán Glück was a graduate student when Sandy hit, and he worked with Occupy Sandy doing recovery work in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Occupy Sandy, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, was a major and innovative force for Sandy recovery in New...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Matt Kraushar, dubbed “Medical Matt,” set up a Red Hook Sandy recovery medical team. He was a medical student living on Van Brunt Street when Sandy hit. He learned from Katrina that medical issues that were managed under normal conditions...
