"A plan to add flood walls and elevated park space is the most complicated and expensive link in the Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency portfolio: a chain of flood-proofing projects, devised in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, to protect the island's tip from coastal flooding. Picture a park stretching all the way from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Battery. It's raised 15 to 18 feet above the current shoreline, and armed with nearly eight acres of green space, resilient ferry hubs, flood walls, deployable flood gates,"
"[It's] such a significant project, both in its location and its scale, that it raises issues we haven't always had to grapple with on other projects," said Jordan Salinger, the deputy director of adaptation strategies at the Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice. Funding, he added, must be addressed through "a creative solution between the federal government, state government, and the city."
The FiDi-Seaport project aims to create a raised waterfront park and coastal defenses along Lower Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Battery. The design envisions a park elevated 15 to 18 feet with nearly eight acres of green space, resilient ferry hubs, flood walls, deployable gates, and a multilevel esplanade projecting into the East River. The project is the most complex element of the Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency portfolio and remains in the design phase. Most other LMCR projects are funded and expected to finish by 2031. The FiDi-Seaport plan needs $5–7 billion and at least a decade to construct, requiring coordinated federal, state, and city funding solutions.
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