When Hurricane Sandy hit Brooklyn in October 2012, the Navy Yard — a 300-acre campus on the edge of the East River — was flooded with up to six feet of water. The flooding resulted in $100 million in ...

The flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy's storm surge topped out at 13 feet in lower Manhattan ... have serious consequences for New York if we don’t take action," said NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg in ...

The gates will keep flood waters ... during Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and there was no way to stop the water. These 25-ton gates will block car tunnels that connect Brooklyn and Manhattan.

New York City's subways were devastated by Hurricane Sandy, and the Metropolitan Transit ... which takes the A and C trains between Brooklyn and Manhattan under the East River.

adding deployable flood barriers to protect buildings, and protecting electrical and HVAC systems. Some Sandy-related repairs are already underway, a Navy Yard rep told Brooklyn Paper, but the new ...