New York City Begins Its Climate Change Reckoning on the Lower East Side, the Hard Way – Inside Climate News
![The new waterfront esplanade proposed for the Financial District in Lower Manhattan modeled during normal weather conditions and coastal storm conditions (from the Financial District and Seaport Climate Resilience Master Plan by the Mayor's Office of Climate Resiliency and NYCEDC via nyc.gov).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-19-at-10.18.31-PM-798x219.png)
The city redesigned much of a $1.5 billion floodwall project along the East River without any community input, shattering trust. Now, New York is pursuing similar climate resiliency projects in Manhattan that Mayor Eric Adams calls “complex, novel and unparalleled compared to any other American city…”