WHAT ARE THE RISKS? FALL 2019 LOWER MANHATTAN WHAT IS LMCR? Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency (LMCR) is the City’s plan to adapt LMCR is part To conduct Lower Manhattan’s first comprehensive climate-risk assessment, we Lower Manhattan to climate change, for this generation and the next. of the City’s used conservative projections and the most up-to-date science from the New York COASTAL RESILIENCY investments City Panel on Climate Change, a group of leading climate scientists and experts. Climate change poses an urgent and existential threat to New York City. in resilience With 2.5 feet of sea level rise projected by the 2050s and over six feet by 2100, Adapting to Climate Change, Sea level rise, based on current projections, will submerge parts across the five Lower Manhattan is vulnerable to flooding not only during storms like Hurricane for This Generation and the Next of Lower Manhattan on a regular basis within this generation and put boroughs. Sandy, but also on a regular basis, even on sunny days. critical infrastructure and jobs—serving the entire city and region—at risk. This includes our subway and ferry network, our sewer system, 10 percent For more of the city’s jobs, and many historic, cultural, and community assets. information, go to: www.nyc. Lower Manhattan is already a model of resiliency, bouncing back and thriving gov/resiliency STORM SURGE TIDAL INUNDATION after financial collapses, 9/11, and Hurricane Sandy. From its early history as a Temporary extreme Regular, sunny day shipping and trading port to today’s capital of global finance, Lower Manhattan increase in the height flooding of a coastal has long been a site of transformation—and one of New York’s greatest assets. of the sea due to a area from higher tides. hurricane or nor’easter. That’s why the City is taking bold, significant action, investing $500 million in climate adaptation projects to protect Lower Manhattan now, while planning for long-term climate adaptation to meet the challenges of tomorrow. 37% of buildings at risk of storm surge Over 10% of properties and 20% GET IN TOUCH: email us at [email protected] in the 2050s and nearly 50% of buildings of streets at risk of daily flooding at risk by 2100. by 2100 due to sea level rise. WHY LOWER MANHATTAN? TO LEARN MORE: visit nyc.gov/LMCR Any impacts to Lower Manhattan would be felt across the city and region. GROUNDWATER EXTREME 1 City and regional jobs center: 2 Hub of critical infrastructure: TABLE RISE PRECIPITATION The area holds 1% of New York City’s 19 out of the city’s 25 subway lines pass landmass, but 10% of its economic output through the area, as well as 26 ferry lines. Increase in height of One inch of rainfall or and 300,000 jobs, of which almost a third the level below which more during a period earn less than the NYC median income. soil is permanently of 24 hours. saturated with water. Home to a growing residential community: Historic heart of New York City: 3 Over 100,000 residents live below Chambers 4 The story of New York City’s past 7% of buildings at risk of destabilization Increased frequency of street flooding Street, a 129% increase since 2000. and of generations of immigrants and almost 40% of streets with underground and sewer backups during extreme Front Cover by Zoran Photography is embedded here. utilities at risk of water infiltration by 2100. rain events by the 2050s. WHAT IS THE CITY DOING? BATTERY PARK CITY BK BRIDGE-MONTGOMERY THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT The City will have $500 million in permanent resilience infrastructure RESILIENCE PROJECTS COASTAL RESILIENCE AND SEAPORT CLIMATE investments under construction by 2021. RESILIENCE MASTER PLAN The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will develop This integrated flood protection system consists While the challenges are severe, we have the tools to These projects will protect workers, residents, and coastal protection projects to adapt Battery Park of permanent barriers and deployable barriers More work needs to be done to adapt the adapt to climate change and make this community critical infrastructure across 70 percent of Lower City to new climate conditions. This resilience that lie flush with the esplanade in sunny day Financial District and the Seaport. Unlike other and the city more resilient. Each neighborhood has Manhattan’s coastline. For the remaining 30 percent plan will be implemented in four phases, from conditions and flip up to protect the Two Bridges neighborhoods in Lower Manhattan, the South Street gate open on sunny day different conditions and risks and requires a unique, of the coastline, the City is advancing a master plan Pier A and The Battery in the south to Stuyvesant neighborhood before a storm. The barriers will waterfront here is too low-lying, constrained, tailored approach. for the Financial District and Seaport neighborhoods, High School in the north. These projects will allow the community to continue accessing and complex to accommodate the land-based which require an in-water solution to climate change. mitigate against storm surge, incorporating the waterfront, while protecting them from resilience tools being implemented in other elevated park spaces, deployable flood barriers, a storm surge. parts of the city. To ensure these two and fixed garden or park walls along the waterfront. neighborhoods can continue to thrive, the INVESTMENT: Approximately $200 million City is planning for an extension of the shoreline E N PRELIMINARY INVESTMENT: AGENCIES: NYCEDC for design, Department of with an in-water barrier, so that we have the A G N I L NE space to integrate the protection we need. MONTGOMERY STREET Includes $134 million in bonds Design and Construction (DDC) for construction D A U TR E T S WEST STREET AGENCIES: BPCA TIMELINE: Design began in summer 2019 R S I S AR CANAL STREET B A We need your collaboration and input to ensure TIMELINE: Design began in 2018 U NY O Wagner Park Resilience South Street gate closed during storm M C T E Y that this shoreline extension secures the future AR - D N I Y C S C J T N I O of Lower Manhattan and New York City, while S IE ES HAR A L R E I P BROADWAY S integrating with the existing neighborhoods S E S R MANHATTAN BRIDGE Y TU BO R O E THE BATTERY COASTAL INTERIM FLOOD PROTECTION and making them better places to live and work. D F R M E O Y G NC Over the next two years, the City, in partnership CHAMBERS STREET T E N I RESILIENCE MEASURES O IL with the communities of Lower Manhattan CITY M ES S HALL - R E PARK GE L IL and other key stakeholders, will develop the BROOKLYN BRIDGE A M ID T 0 This project will rebuild and elevate the wharf Temporary flood protection barriers are being R S 8 Financial District and Seaport Climate Resilience B A . K O and promenade, staying true to the character implemented, where feasible, for the 2019 B C Master Plan. This plan will set a roadmap for the RE BA SEAPORT and uses of the park, while protecting it from coastal storm season in the Financial District, S TT long-term adaptation of these areas for current I BROOKLYN L T sea level rise in 2100. BPCA will also integrate Two Bridges, and Seaport to protect these areas I E R Sunny Day Rendering E and future New Yorkers. R 1 NCE FINANCIAL O N Y a protective barrier in the back of the park from more frequent, less severe storms. P 1 A DISTRICT 5 P A L E M AR P to protect against a storm surge. P S I R L RO WALL STREET A K D E E INVESTMENT: Approximately $3.5 million E RESILIENCE S C N T J R A S A E I T A INVESTMENT: Approximately $165 million AGENCIES: NYC Emergency Management (EM) C D STRATEGY T Y E T C M S I N AGENCIES: New York City Economic TIMELINE: Completed in summer 2019 E I R UNMITIGATED 2050s C A E NEW T R L N I Development Corporation (NYCEDC), in FDR DRIVE S T 100-YEAR FLOOD RISK I E JERSEY I S M D L N 0 partnership with NYC Parks and BPCA I L O 9 . INTERIM FLOOD BATTERY A S C I E TIMELINE: Design will begin in fall 2019 PARK Y PROTECTION C R L N A E H MEASURES (IFPM) N T IG C T I A H O H F M Esplanade Rendering Storm Rendering A E HE I PROJECTS ADJACENT S BA T CL TA TTERY TO LMCR STRATEGY L . RESI CE 33 LIEN MILES.