East Bronx WaterfrontNY Rising Public Engagement Meeting #3NY Rising Community Reconstruction Program Overview

The NY Rising Community Reconstruction Program is helping communities impacted by Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Irene, and Tropical Storm Lee to rebuild and become more resilient through innovative community-driven plans. Each NY Rising Community has a Planning Committee that includes, among others, local community members and leaders of organizations and businesses in the community. The East Bronx Waterfront has been allocated up to $3 million in Federal Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) monies to fund eligible recovery and resiliency projects.

List of potential resiliency projects:

•Community Recovery Plan

•Locust Point Civic Association Resource Center and Resiliency Improvements

•North Tower Firehouse Resource Center and Resiliency Improvements

•Community Facilities Resiliency Capital Fund

•Building Flood Audit Program and Financial Assistance

•Edgewater Park Pumping System Hardening

•Ferry Point Drainage Pattern Redesign

•Hammond Cove Living Shoreline Restoration

•Vulnerable Coastal Edge Protection - Street End Raising Study and Pilot Project

•City Island Wetland Interim Restoration & Berming

•Harding Park Edge Protection Study

•Westchester Creek Waterfront Study

East Bronx WaterfrontNY Rising Public Engagement Meeting #3We want to hear from you!

CDBG-DR Allocation

Proposed Projects Featured Projects Additional Resiliency Recommendation

CDBG-DR Allocation Other

FundingSource(s)

Future AdditionalFunding

Fully funded with Community’s NY Rising Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) allocation

An initial study or discrete �rst phase is funded by Community’s NY Rising CDBG-DR or another identi�ed funding source. May require additional funding sources for full implementation

Projects and actions the committee would like to highlight and are not categorized as Proposed or Featured Projects

The NY Rising program East Bronx Waterfront Planning Committee welcome you to the Public Engagement Meeting #3. We value your input and look forward to hearing your feedback on our potential resiliency projects.

There are three ways for you to provide feedback to the Planning Committee:

1. Voting Station: Which project are priorities for your community? Please review all of the projects listed below and then place a Green sticker on your highest priority. Please also place your two YELLOW stickers on additional high priority projects that you would like to see implemented in your community. Please place one sticker per project.

2. Comment Board: If you feel there is a need that is not being addressed through the listed projects or there are changes you would like to see with those projects, please leave your comments.

3. Comment Cards: Any additional comments can be made by filling out a comment card and returning it to the quick in table.

Community Recovery Plan

This project would create a local community recovery plan to enhance recovery functions after a storm, coordination with existing City resources, and emergency preparedness. The project could support a community coordinator based out of a Community Board or local community-based organization (CBO) who would be responsible for creating the plan and bringing year-round emergency programming to the community.

Locust Point Civic Association Resource Center and Resiliency Improvements

This project would provide funds for the flood-proofing and hardening of the Locust Point Civic Association Building, the key community facility in the Locust Point neighborhood of the East Bronx Waterfront. Improvements could include the raising of the building, flood proofing, or adding a second story and making the first floor floodable.

North Tower Firehouse Resource Center and Resiliency Improvements

Project would fund resiliency improvements to ensure North Tower Firehouse’s reliability during emergencies and optimize its use as a gathering and distribution center. The project would include upgrades such as: emergency power, upgrading electrical systems, installation of an ADA lift, making building ADA accessible, and rehabilitation of interior spaces.

Community Facilities Resiliency Capital Fund

Establishes a fund to finance resiliency improvements for key community buildings, including flood-proofing measures, raising mechanical and electrical equipment, and purchasing and installing gas-powered generators.

Building Flood Audit Program and Financial Assistance

Project would provide technical assistance and financial tools to low and moderate income homeowners who want to protect their buildings against future storm risks. A locally administered audit program would provide recommendations for building-specific improvements that reduce future flood risk and mitigate storm impacts. Low and moderate income owners would be eligible to receive grants or loans to offset the cost of recommended resiliency measures.

Edgewater Park Pumping System Hardening

The Edgewater Park Co-op has a private pumping system that pumps stormwater and sanitary out of the Community and connects to the NYC DEP system. The system is vulnerable during storm events because the control panels sit below the base flood elevation. When the panels become flooded, the system ceases to operate thus causing back up in the streets and in individual homes. This project would harden the system by raising the control panels.

Ferry Point Drainage Pattern Redesign

Improves drainage patterns along local streets in the Ferry Point neighborhood to address localized inland flooding during storm events. Develops a roadway drainage strategy that would be compatible with local street context and could be replicated in neighborhoods with similar nonconforming street conditions.

Hammond Cove Living Shoreline Restoration

The shoreline at the ends of Chaffee Avenue, Hatting Place, Glennon Place, Giegerich St, and Tierney Place would be enhanced to stabilize and elevate the existing terrain. To protect against future sea level rise and prevent fllooding in the community, the project would serve as a min Bluebelt, capturing run-off from the upland areas, allowing the water to filter through the constructed basins and then be released into the larger drainage system.

Vulnerable Coastal Edge Protection - Street End Raising Study and Pilot Project

A study that identifies the street ends that are vulnerable to future sea level rise or a source of flooding during future storm events. The pilot project would fortify a street end identified in the study in the planning area.

City Island Wetland Interim Restoration & Berming

Restores an existing wetland and installs earth berms on the west side of City Island between Ditmars Street and Tier Street. In combination, these improvements would add flood storage capacity and protect adjoining residential and commercial areas from storm surge.

Harding Park Edge Protection Study

The Harding Park neighborhood contains three tidal basins that extend south from Soundview Park and form the soft parklike edge to the community. During Superstorm Sandy, surge over-topped the basins, damaging homes along North Street, U Avenue, and Underhill Avenue. This featured project would evaluate possible coastal protection measures along the Bronx and East Rivers that would prepare the edge against sea level rise and reduce the risk of future flooding from coastal storm events.

Westchester Creek Waterfront Study

The East Bronx Waterfront Community has expressed a desire to transform the Westchester Creek waterfront, which contains industrial uses on both sides, and reconnect the Community to the waterfront. The project would include the development of a plan that would establish future land use priorities for the Westchester Creek waterfront (between thefrom the East River north to the Cross Bronx Expressway), including new active and passive recreational open space, new economic development opportunities for underdeveloped land and a public access plan.

Typical section for roadway reconstruction - Option 1One travel lane, two parking lanes, without sidewalk

Travel Lane14’

Parking8’

YardYard Parking8’

Parcel Boundary

Parcel Boundary

CL

1 - 2% Grading

Existing Roadway Asphalt

MHW + SLR +FREEBOARD = 7.34'MHW + SLR = 6.34'

MHW = 3.34'

MLW = -3.83'

RESIDENCE

EDGE OFSTREET EXISTING

TOPOGRAPHYVARIES

0.5% Slope

MSL = -0.22'

CONCRETE CHEEK WALL

12" DRAINAGE PIPE

RETENTION POND BITUMINOUS CONCRETE PATH W/ FLOOD WALLSTREET HIGH AND LOW MARSH WETLAND

POTENTIAL BRUSH PARK

POTENTIALSCHLEY BOATLAUNCH

FERRY POINTPARK

POTENTIAL SAFETY CITYPARK

POTENTIAL WESTCHESTERTRAIL PARKING

POTENTIAL WESTCHESTERPARK + CULTURAL CENTER

PUGSLEY CREEKPARK

POTENTIAL RANDALL WETLAND

PARK

CASTLE HILLPARK

KANESPARK

POTENTIAL LAFAYETTE PARK +

PEDESTRIAN CROSSING

POTENTIAL HAVILAND PARK +

PEDESTRIAN CROSSING

VISION PLAN | Westchester Creek

RESILIENCY BENEFITS:

STORMWATER issues are reduced by increased per-vious cover

WATER QUALITY is improved by increased pervious cover and restored marshland

HABITAT is maximized

FLOOD is reduced by integrated and multi-use flood protection measures along the greenway

FILL | Harding Park

CORNELL AVE

SECT

ION

SUNS

ET B

LVD

WHI

TE P

LAIN

S

extension of soundview park

extension of shore haven bikepath

EDGE BERM | Harding Park

CORNELL AVE

SUNS

ET B

LVD

WHI

TE P

LAIN

S

tidalwetlandedge berm

with multi-use path

tidegate

tide gate

wall

wall

SECT

ION

INLAND BERM | Harding Park

CORNELL AVE

WHI

TE P

LAIN

S

SUNS

ET B

LVD

inland berm with multi-use path

wall

existingriprap

wall

SECT

ION

UR

Cross Bronx Expy

Throgs Neck ExpyThrogs Neck Expy

Miles Ave

Wissman Ave

Harding Ave

Lawton Ave

9th

Ave5th Ave

Prentiss Ave

Throgs Neck Blvd

Pennyfield Ave

Longstreet Ave

Blair Ave

Main St

1st Ave3rd Ave

Edge St

Schley Ave

WY

Long Island Sound

Bicentennial Veterans Memorial Park

Weir Creek

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