"A Stronger, More Resilient New York"
Launched on June 11, 2013, by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The plan proposes more than 250 initiatives to reduce the city’s vulnerability to coastal flooding and storm surge. About 80% of the $19.5 billion plan will go to repairing homes and streets damaged by Sandy, retrofitting hospitals and nursing homes, elevating electrical infrastructure, improving ferry and subway systems and fixing leaky drinking water systems. The rest will go to building and researching flood-walls, restoring swamplands and sand dunes, and other coastal flood protections. |
Strategies
About half of New York's plan will be funded by federal aid and city capital that's already been allocated, and the city government expects to provide an additional $5 billion. That leaves a funding gap of at least $4.5 billion.