Climate resiliency and equity: What NYC is planning for the next decade of its waterfront

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Climate resiliency and equity: What NYC is planning for the next decade of its waterfront
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'We have to continue to put our shoulder into these problems, because they are massive,' says Michael Marrella, the Dept. of City Planning's director of waterfront & open space planning. 'But we are the city of New York. We have done great things before.'

and flooding, erasing important coastal buffers and endangering the habitats of many aquatic species. The waterfront plan calls for an increased investment into the ongoing efforts to protect and restore the city’s wetlands, and the implementation of the priority projects laid out in the Wetlands Management Framework.Even as the city focuses on building a succession of seawalls and barriers along its coastline, it is still actively working to open up more equitable waterfront access.

The plan includes several ways to address this inequity, besides opening up new parks. These include creating safer pathways to the waterfront, completing several long-planned greenways, requiring public access at new industrial and commercial sites on the waterfront and transforming city owned properties and street-ends into access points.Nathan Kensinger for Gothamist, which has helped connect underserved communities to the waterfront.

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