The Resilient Red Hook  (RRH) group was founded as a result of hurricane Sandy by a NYS-funded program. It evolved into RRH whose mission has evolved well beyond resiliency against floods to include climate change in general and impending truck...

Tide + surge + wind over water (fetch) = what you need to know. To calculate the risk of flooding at a location, You need to take the height of the expected storm surge, the time it is expected, and compare that time to the tide cycle in the harbor....

Sandy essentially flooded anyone who built on the former tidal marshes.  Map Explanation by mapmaker Eymund Diegel: Red lines are the upland Sandy flood lines (minus part the Fort Defiance Island area which is missing dry non flood area during...