"$100M Flood-Protection System Planned for Lower Manhattan"

"A $100 million flood protection system will help keep Sandy-like stormwaters from devastating lower Manhattan, the de Blasio administration said Thursday.

The U-shaped shield -- stretching from Montgomery Street in the Lower East Side to the northernmost part of Battery Park City -- could include both deployable flood walls and permanent levees, such as berms, integrated with parkland, Mayor Bill de Blasio said at an afternoon news conference.

'It's our responsibility to do the big work of resiliency -- of protecting whole communities,' de Blasio said in a flood-prone neighborhood in the Lower East Side, where he attended a 'Preparedness Fair' sponsored by the city's disaster-management agency."

Matthew Chayes reports for Newsday August 27, 2015.