Behold: The Mighty Retractable Floodgates That Will Hold Back Poseidon's Wrath and Save the Epicenter of Global Capitalism

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Behold: The Mighty Retractable Floodgates That Will Hold Back Poseidon's Wrath and Save the Epicenter of Global Capitalism

More than four years ago, while plumbing the depths of City documents and presentations relating to flood protection in Lower Manhattan, I came across renderings of what the City planned to do for the East River Waterfrontp Esplanade, that highly used asphalt park beneath the FDR Drive that runs between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges. The renderings, somewhat outlandishly, proposed that the esplanade would somehow transform its strip of benc…