Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City’s Security Infrastructure Working Group announced plans to bring permanent perimeter barriers, or bollards, to high-profile sites and to create a process to streamline their design and construction.
The Public Design Commission meets once a month. The meeting agendas are posted online three business days in advance of each meeting and published in the City Record. Agendas are also distributed to all City Council members, Community Boards, and City agency liaisons.
Mayor de Blasio announced the reopening of the Bedford Union Armory as a community center for the neighborhood along with investing in affordable housing.
Mayor Bill de Blasio celebrated the opening of the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Building 77, a one-million-square-foot, state-of-the-art manufacturing building and the largest on the 300-acre industrial campus.
The Public Design Commission meets once a month. The meeting agendas are posted online three business days in advance of each meeting and published in the City Record. Agendas are also distributed to all City Council members, Community Boards, and City agency liaisons.
On the 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $145 million investment for up to seven resilience projects to help protect communities in the Rockaways from the impacts of climate change.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the opening of the new City Island Bridge. The City Island Bridge serves as the sole vehicular, pedestrian and cyclist access to City Island, with a daily count of 16,500 vehicles serving 4,500 year-round residents
Mayor de Blasio spoke of the major damages that occurred to the Rockaway neighborhood after hurricane Sandy, however 5 years after the initial disaster had struck the people of the town, he delivers his plan to limit coastal damage like what happened during Sandy to occur in the neighborhood again.
As part of City Hall in Your Borough, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the City will pursue a new archway in the Chinatown neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
As the fifth Anniversary of Hurricane Sandy neared, Mayor de Blasio announced that 87 percent of the 8,300 one-to-four family homes damaged by the historic storm have completed the Build It Back program. 7,200 homes were repaired and resilient; most complex project expected to finish that spring.