City pumping $110M into climate change resiliency project for Seaport District

The de Blasio administration is allocating $110 million protect the South Street Seaport District from the effects of climate change by increasing the height of the bulkhead, pending public review.

The city Economic Development Corporation will oversee the project which, like the East Side Coastal Resiliency project, will protect vulnerable neighborhoods from sea level rise – which the government says could be subject to flooding every month in the next 25 years.