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 ...

Superstorm Sandy, which walloped the city with the greatest sea surge in its history, didn’t lay a drop of water on Wagner Park. The rest of Battery Park City suffered only minor damage at a few ...

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 ...

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.

The Battery Park City Resiliency Project promises to protect some of the most valuable real estate in the US. Can it be a model for urban flood protection?

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.

Battery Park City. Such a situation is ... You only need to look at the history of flooding and damage from Hurricane Sandy in 2012. BPC, which is higher ground than the rest of lower Manhattan, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...