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Oct
17
Incompetent Water Main Replacement Is Flooding Their Homes, Park Slope Residents Say

Incompetent Water Main Replacement Is Flooding Their Homes, Park Slope Residents Say

The flooded basement of 104 Berkeley Place. Courtesy of the St. Johns Place Community Association.City’s water main replacement
3 min read
Jul
25
How Businesses Impacted By Monday’s Flooding Can Find Assistance

How Businesses Impacted By Monday’s Flooding Can Find Assistance

GOWANUS – After Monday’s downpour [/heavy-rain-floods-4th-avenue-businesses-monday-night/] flooded the basement of Colony [https://www.colony274.com] at 274 4th Avenue, business
3 min read
Jan
05
P-LG Greenlight Bookstore Floods After Pipe Bursts

P-LG Greenlight Bookstore Floods After Pipe Bursts

PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS – Brooklyn’s beloved Greenlight Bookstore [http://www.greenlightbookstore.com] is recovering after a flood soaked nearly 1,000
2 min read
Oct
21
Flood Watch For South Shore Bays, Get Your Floaties Ready

Flood Watch For South Shore Bays, Get Your Floaties Ready

Photo by Sean Egan/Sheepshead Bites.If you haven’t noticed yet, it is raining. Pretty hard. The U.S.
1 min read
Aug
11
Same Old Answers, No Relief From Sewage Backups And Flooding

Same Old Answers, No Relief From Sewage Backups And Flooding

Residents lining up to ask questions. By Lenore Fedow / Sheepshead Bites Councilman Chaim Deutsch held an open community forum last
5 min read
May
23
Three Reasons To Sign Up For A Free Rain Barrel

Three Reasons To Sign Up For A Free Rain Barrel

NYC Department of Environmental Protection rain barrel giveaway in St. Albans, Queens, June, 2015. (Photo: NYC DEP via flickr [https:
3 min read
Mar
04

Flashback Friday: Here Comes The ’22 Flood

Photo via Brooklyn Public Library [http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/search~S64?/Xpark+slope&searchscope=64&SORT=DZ/Xpark+
1 min read
Feb
25
Frustrated Neighbors Find Few Answers About Projects To Protect Waterfronts From Flooding

Frustrated Neighbors Find Few Answers About Projects To Protect Waterfronts From Flooding

Manhattan Beach Community Group member Shari Kaplan, left, standing next to officials from the Mayor’s Office of Recovery and
3 min read
Feb
23
Mayor’s Office Responds To Flooding Danger Of Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Route

Mayor’s Office Responds To Flooding Danger Of Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Route

Courtesy of the Friends of the Brooklyn-Queens ConnectorMayor Bill de Blasio and his administration have been engaged in building significant
2 min read
Feb
22
Two Proposed Bridges For Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Could Be Built In Flood Zone

Two Proposed Bridges For Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Could Be Built In Flood Zone

Rendering of the proposed Brooklyn-Queens Connector streetcar, via Friends of the Brooklyn-Queens ConnectorAs Mayor Bill de Blasio continues to throw
3 min read