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Louis Valentino Pier in Red Hook (Photo by Eddie Cheaz via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205353122345978&set=pb.1786171937.-2207520000.1497546724.&type=3&theater] )Resilient Red Hook has a day full of events scheduled for Saturday, June 17 throughout the neighborhood geared to
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A boarded up home. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Neighbors who missed out or gave up [/three-years-after-sandy-build-it-back-makes-headway-in-sheepshead-bay/] on the city’s Build it Back [http://www.nyc.gov/html/recovery/html/homeowners/rebuild.shtml] program may get a second chance to have their home elevated thanks to an $8.8
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Manhattan Beach Community Group member Shari Kaplan, left, standing next to officials from the Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency and the Department of Environmental Protection. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites) Frustrations boiled over at a Manhattan Beach Community Group meeting Tuesday when city officials showed up empty handed
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A reminder of the flooding caused by Hurricane Irene (Photo by Mickey Whitley) City Councilman Chaim Deutsch is urging federal and state agencies to pick up the pace on planned resiliency measures after an unusually strong high tide flooded parts of Manhattan Beach and Sheepshead Bay this morning. “I’ve
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Sewage backflow inside a Lake Avenue bungalow. (Photo: Melissa Haggerty / NY Rising [http://stormrecovery.ny.gov/sites/default/files/crp/community/documents/gerritsenbeach_sheepsheadbay_nyrcr_plan.pdf] )When Superstorm Sandy’s record-setting 13-foot surge rolled into southern Brooklyn, it overwhelmed the city’s aging sewer infrastructure [/deutsch-wants-a-solution-to-sewage-back-ups-after-storms/]. Millions of gallons
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The Gerrittsen Beach Fire Department (Source: GBFD.net)The Gerrittsen Beach Fire Department [http://gbfd.net/], the volunteer firefighting base of Gerritsen Beach where many locals took refuge after Superstorm Sandy, is slated to get a $2.4 million overhaul to protect it from future extreme weather events. The funds
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Neighbors in Mill Basin, Mill Island, Marine Park, Bergen Beach, and Georgetown can attend a public meeting on Wednesday, January 14, to learn about projects proposed for funding, and the contents of the final NY Rising Community Reconstruction (NYRCR) Plan for Southeast Brooklyn Waterfront, designed to help meet the Community’
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Map of the coverage area for this NY Rising committee. Source: NY Rising Neighbors in Mill Basin, Mill Island, Marine Park, Bergen Beach, and Georgetown are invited to a public meeting tonight, Wednesday, November 12, to hear the latest from the state-sponsored NY Rising Community Reconstruction Program and provide input
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Carro Center, where tonight’s meeting will be held.Don’t blame us for the late notice. We only received it this afternoon. The Southeast Brooklyn Waterfront (Mill Basin, Marine Park, Bergen Beach, Georgetown) NY Rising Community Planning Committee to Host Public Meeting on Tuesday, July 29 for the NY
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The New York Rising project, a state-sponsored, federally-funded program [/community-takes-storm-resiliency-plans-into-own-hands-at-ny-rising-workshop/] to make coastal communities more resilient in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, will unveil the final proposals for Sheepshead Bay and Gerritsen Beach tonight [/monday-public-engagement-meeting-restore-protect-sheepshead-gerritsen/], revealing the $21.3 million vision to help us better withstand and more quickly recover
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Staten Island after the Hurricane Sandy (Source: Flickr photo by Desiree Arroyo) Build it Back [http://www.nyc.gov/html/recovery/html/homeowners/homeowners-renters.shtml], the city-run program to assist property owners in their recovery from Superstorm Sandy, has so far failed to help any of the 19,920 homeowners
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The next meeting of the Manhattan Beach Community Group will be tomorrow, October 23, 8:00 p.m. at Public School 195, 131 Irwin Street. Scheduled speakers include a representative from New York Rising, Governor Cuomo’s initiative to develop grassroots planning for storm resiliency. A meeting held earlier this