Seaport Coastal Resilience

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The Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency Project is a broad City-led strategy to protect Lower Manhattan from coastal storm surge and sea level rise for now and into the future. The Seaport Coastal Resiliency Project is located along the waterfront with tie-ins to the Brooklyn Bridge-Montgomery Street Coastal Resilience Project in the north and to the south in the vicinity of John, Fulton, and Pearl Streets in order to provide approximately a level of protection to protect against Sea Level rise until 2100. The Project shall address design goals including protection from a 2050s Storm Surge, and 2100 Sea Level Rise, drainage and green infrastructure elements, potential public realm enhancements, demolition and reconstruction of the New Market Pier, and in-water ecological enhancements.