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The BPCA naturally cites Sandy’s impact in parts of the five boroughs. The BPCA’s “Resilience Action Plan” for Wagner Park and a Draft Environmental Statement are loaded with opaque technical details and topics such as “inclusive community” having nothing to do with flood threats. They’re immaterial to the larger issue of destroying a great park in order to serve a woke environmental agenda. Yet the BPCA used the discredited 2013 model in defending the need for effectively strip-mining Battery Park City. The city appealed the findings and, remarkably, FEMA in 2016 yielded to the city’s position and lowered its guesswork from 11.3 feet to 9.1 feet. One justification for the BPC “resiliency” project was a 2013 FEMA prediction of future storm-surge levels that were two feet higher than City Hall’s experts thought possible.

According to the author, the flood plan amounts to “civic vandalism.” Helayne Seidman Superstorm Sandy in 2012 gave climate-change zealots the worst-case-scenarios they needed to demand tearing up lively, viable waterfronts, no matter the collateral damage to neighborhoods. Without divine intervention, it might be the most heinous act of civic vandalism since the original Penn Station was demolished in the 1960s. It’s too late to stop the plan despite years of community unease and outrage. But to truly imperil Wagner Park would take a flood unseen since Biblical times - or one created in a Dreamworks special-effects studio. The idea is supposedly to protect the park from a future storm surge. Details about the new landscaping are vague at best. The Jewish museum will remain open throughout construction but it will be fenced and isolated.

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Its glorious plantings, trees and lawns will be uprooted for a new park full of “exposed floodwalls,” “buried floodwalls” and “flip-up deployables.” Images of new landscaping and amenities shown in BPCA materials are described as “proposals.” If and when the park emerges from state-sponsored hell, it will be a different, grotesquely warped Wagner Park - reconstructed 10 feet above its current height and unrecognizable from its present state. Now its future is at the whims of bureaucrats. It has been a hit since it opened in 1996 when New York Times architectural critic Paul Goldberger aptly called it “one of the finest public spaces New York has seen in at least a generation.” The construction plan will lift Wagner Park about 10 feet above its current elevation. The grounds are home to the compelling-to-all-faiths Museum of Jewish Heritage as well as a popular restaurant in an elevated pavilion. Manicured green lawns invite sunbathers and sightseers. The park boasts spectacular views of the river and the Statue of Liberty. New Yorkers should howl, scream, and curse over the needless desecration of a public treasure. Wagner will be closed for at least two years. The actual devastation comes at the hands of the state-controlled Battery Park City Authority. The damage is to start with Wagner Park, the 3.5-acre, magnificently sculpted and landscaped jewel at Battery Park City’s southern tip. Soon after Labor Day, the 1.2-mile-long esplanade and its parallel lawns and walkways will begin transforming into a construction nightmare that might last a decade - all in the name of “protecting” it from a future storm surge that exists only in the fantasies of climate-change zanies. The complex’s popular Hudson River waterfront faces imminent ruin - not from the far-fetched risk of a catastrophic future flood but from state environmental cowboys and their political trail dogs. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.Kiss goodbye to the Battery Park City we know and love. William Miller An NYPD vehicle drives through partially submerged streets amid Ida in NYC.

“Finally made it through to higher ground and a fellow passenger exclaims ‘oh no I missed my stop.’” Residents navigate through the flooded streets in Brooklyn.

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“Hero bus driver managed to get us safely through the 3-4 feet of rain coursing down the boulevard, but only seemed to be getting worse,” Joe English tweeted. A Twitter user aboard a bus on Queens Boulevard shared footage of what looked like a raging river outside the driver’s windshield, adding the bus was fully flooded and multiple cars were stuck in the water. It wasn’t any safer for commuters above ground. Stefan Jeremiah for New York Post Flood waters in the parking lot of the Aldi supermarket seen in Belleville, New Jersey. Abandoned cars trapped in flood waters at the intersection of Main Street and the exit 7 slip road of the McCarter Highway in Belleville, New Jersey on Wednesday September 1, 2021.

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