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Bloomberg Unleashes Plan to Guide City Into Climate-Changing Future

On Tuesday, the Bloomberg administration released its long-awaited resiliency plan to shape up a city that will see a quarter of its land become floodplain in the next 40 years. The city had a comparatively early start on climate planning--in 2007, it came out with PlaNYC, a set of recommendations ... More >>

Nathaniel Rich Wrote About Hurricane Sandy Before It Hit

In 2007, the writer began work on a project about a massive hurricane hitting New York City. Five years later, just as he put the final edits on Odds Against Tomorrow--published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux earlier this month--Hurricane Sandy descended on the city. Over a recent cup of coffee in Tur ... More >>

Senate Finally Approves $50.5 Billion in Sandy Relief

The Senate has approved a $50.5 billion measure to benefit Superstorm Sandy victims. Even though the storm hit three months ago, relief funding has been delayed by conservative senators' concerns about raising the already-scary national debt. As we told you earlier this month, some residents in ar ... More >>

Flood Zone, NYC

Bloomberg's push for development in the wrong places

Happy 80th Birthday, George Washington Bridge!

via Wikipedia​On October 24th, 1931, you were dedicated as the "Hudson River Bridge." Soon after, you were renamed, and now everyone calls you George. As the world's busiest bridge, we know you have a lot on your plate today. We just want to quickly say, "Happy Birthday," and let you know how ... More >>

Westway, the Highway That Tried to Eat New York, Defeated 25 Years Ago This Week

​The Saw Mill, the Bronx River, and parts of the FDR were closed due to flooding this morning thanks to the monsoon that kicked in before dawn. But the West Side Highway, a.k.a. the Joe DiMaggio? Traffic is flowing fine there, thanks in large part because we never built Westway, the crazed mul ... More >>

Thompson: City Dumping Tons of Possibly Toxic Sludge in Parks, Elsewhere in City

The Bloomberg Administration is planning to take potentially toxic sediment dredged from New York Harbor and dump it in New York public places like the former Yankee Stadium, the Bronx terminal market, and the Brooklyn Bridge Park that runs along the East River waterfront, says Comptroller Bill Thom ... More >>

Interview: Randy Newman on 'Harps and Angels' and Hurricane Katrina

U.S. Dams Iraq While Damning Iowa

U.S. Dams Iraq While Damning Iowa

Vitter Screws One Person and It's News?

All Wet

Bloomberg's man Dan Doctoroff has an answer for rising seas: more coastal condos!

Letters

Spike Lee's Reality TV

When the Levees Broke brings Katrina's devastation into clear and timely focus

Wonder Women

A season of old masters, Gumby, biomorphs, and cell phones

Water, Logged

Document by document, inquiry skewers Bush's Katrina cover-up

Stickler's for the Rules

18 miners killed this year, and safety nominee says the laws are fine

Barricading the Storm

Why the White House Won't Release Its Katrina Papers

Morning Report 12/19/05
Guise of the Year

Make Levees, Not War

Serious hurricane protection could take 30 years to build

Morning Report 11/6/05
More Smells Emerge from Cheney's Stalls

Morning Report 9/28/05
Barney Fife on Capitol Hill

Abandonment Issues

Bush gives hurricane victims that familiar sinking feeling

Morning Report 9/26/05
Which Gulf is Bigger?

U.S. to Bush: Pull Out, Like Your Father Should Have

Morning Report 9/19/05
Clinical Insanity

Morning Report 9/18/05
Up in the Air on Both Fronts

Morning Report 9/6/05
Bush Team Starts Image Cleanup

Crude Manipulation

In Katrina's wake, the supposed oil shortage and suspicious gas price hikes

Morning Report 9/3/05
Rotten to the Corps

Morning Report 9/2/05
Bush's Ark

Morning Report 9/1/05
We Leave New Orleans Before We Leave Baghdad

You Break It, You Buy It

Leisurely Bush, Bumbling Feds

Only the Coast Guard looks good after Hurricane Katrina

The Battle of New Orleans

Nature 1, Man 0 in the fight to save the Crescent City

When the Levees Broke

Hurricane Katrina unravels the threads of a fragile New Orleans society

Morning Report 8/29/05
Pentagon Fights a Major Storm

Morning Report 2/8/05
The Oil-for-Slush Scandal

Upon Further Review: The Cheney-Edwards Judges Fumbled

No AC/DC In D.C.

The Powers That Be? They Don't Deliver.

Corporate Colonialism

Companies . . . March!

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Shock Corridor

How a Long-Dormant Law Could Spark a Hudson Valley Power Plant Boom

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Watershed Waffle

Rudy Takes a Dive on City Wetlands for Upstate GOP