When Hurricane Sandy hit the city last year and officials were deciding who to evacuate, they didn’t have very many options, with only three flood zones: A (high risk), B (mid risk) and C (low risk). Now, in an effort to allow more nuanced plans and avoid over- or under-evacuation, the city has released a completely overhauled flood map, with six numbered zones (one is extremely high risk and six is low). In drawing up the new map, the city brought 600,000 new people into the zones, a fact it says has as much to do with growing population as it does with increased flood risk. Take a look at an interactive map of the new zones from WNYC below.
According to new data issued by the Bloomberg administration Monday, many more people will be living in high flood-risk areas of New York City in the coming decades. Currently, 398,000 people live in NYC's 100-year flood plain--the area of the city with a one percent chance of flooding in a…
In an effort to understand when and where the "next Hurricane Sandy" will hit, the people at WNYC have created this nice-looking interactive map plotting Sandy's flooding against "100-year flood zones," areas which FEMA determined a 1% probability of flooding in a single year. As the map so handily illustrates,…
Months after Hurricane Sandy, New York City is steadily moving towards rebuilding the areas that were most heavily damaged, including the beaches of Coney Island, Staten Island, and the Rockaways. As a part of that process, it's enlisted the help of Garrison Architects to design and build new flood-resistant, modular,…
