McCutcheon and her sister, Terry Traugott, went to their mom’s later that Saturday morning. They learned that responders ...

Kiss goodbye to the Battery Park City we know and love. The complex’s popular Hudson River waterfront faces imminent ruin — not from the far-fetched risk of a catastrophic future flood but ...

The new construction project aims to rebuild and raise the Battery’s wharf promenade at the tip of Manhattan to protect against storm-surge flooding and rising sea levels caused by climate ...

Battery Park's flood-proofing projects are part of New York City's larger strategy to protect itself from the next big storm. ... Sandy inundated Battery Park City with water from along West Street.

Lee Zeldin joins locals fighting flood project on Battery Park City waterfront By . Zach ... “Residents have pointed out that Wagner Park didn’t experience severe flooding during Superstorm Sandy.

Flooding is a particular threat to Battery Park City, a 92-acre planned community in Lower Manhattan that was built on landfill with construction debris from the original World Trade Center.

The bad thing about permanent flood walls is that they can block scenic water views. The good thing about the ones now installed to protect the Museum of Jewish Heritage is that they don’t.

If you stand in Battery Park on the southern tip of Manhattan today, 10 years after Sandy, it might be hard to imagine that the city is about to make the Big U vision a reality. Look a little ...

The Battery Park neighborhood will also begin to see some changes this year, as the city starts to install flood barriers on the Hudson River coastline from the Museum of Jewish Heritage through ...

In April, authorities in Battery Park City, a neighbourhood on Manhattan’s south-west tip, began painting sections of the lamp posts along the waterfront light blue. This was not a matter of decor.

A decade after Superstorm Sandy did exactly that, the state-chartered Battery Park City Authority is embarking on a massive effort to reshape the coastline it oversees.

If you stand in Battery Park on the southern tip of Manhattan today, 10 years after Sandy, it might be hard to imagine that the city is about to make the Big U vision a reality. Look a little ...