Some of you may have seen the NYTimes video on the High Water Line project. In it you can see me and “a guy named Ed” talking about the Brooklyn neighborhoods through which I am traveling. I am saying how fascinating and wonderfully different all of the neighborhoods are, but how this line (and climate [...]
I think yesterday, in Mill Basin, was the first time I actually could see the water. And it wasn’t the ocean or the bay, it was one of the many basins that snake up into south Brooklyn. I have already skirted Spring Creek Basin, Fresh Creek Basin, Paerdegat (pronounced pah-deh-gat) Basin and now, East and [...]
My apologies to all who visited the site yesterday and today. Appears a number of the “Detailed Map Views” on the timeline page were broken. I have fixed all of those, so now you can see where the High Water Line is, has been or will be in your neighborhood.
I am really thrilled by the great (and multi-medic!) coverage of the project in the NY Times. The photos and the story really give, in my opinion, the intent and spirit of the project. I have also gotten a lot of great emails – I promise to get back to everyone after the end of [...]
Today i walked past a mural in Canarsie that depicted (among other things) a desert scene. I assume it commemorates a homeland for many of the residents in the area. For me it was a reminder of the strikingly different range of effects of climate change. While I am out drawing a line where flooding [...]
Getting everything ready for the upcoming weekend. I will start on Thursday just west of Rockaway Parkway in Canarsie. By Saturday I will be in Mill Basin. Sunday will have me out in Canarsie Beach Park to install the first set of beacons. Last night I spent a few hours at the fabulous Eyebeam, cutting [...]
