Rendering for Seaport City, a new neighborhood in lower Manhattan that will protect against storm surge via NYC.gov The opening page to NYC Gov’s “A Stronger, More Resilient New York” defines resilient as “1. Able to bounce back after change or adversity 2. Capable of preparing for, responding to, and recovering from difficult situations.” It then provides synonyms: “Tough. See also: New York City.” Released seven months after Hurricane Sandy, the strategy paper was the end result of the Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency. It cited examples of waterfront developments like Battery Park City and Rockaway’s Arverne by the Sea, that successfully survived Sandy through built-in measures, leading to the bold claim: “We can embrace our coastline.” With this is a call to bring back the coastline as a protective barrier, as it once served during New Amsterdam. The city favors an “integrated system of discrete coastal projects, that together would constitute the elements of… Read More