It’s been a few months since former Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled the ambitious Seaport City plan to build a new, flood-resistant neighborhood along the lower eastern edge of Manhattan. Now the city has announced that Netherlands-based firm, Arcadis, has been selected as the lead consultant on the engineering side of the project’s feasibility study. The hope is that the Dutch group will use its expertise in other cities like Rotterdam and Hamburg, Germany as examples of how to make New York’s shores less vulnerable to flood events such as Hurricane Sandy.
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