![]() ![]() I was heartbroken to find the condition of our community. This parade is the way Red Hook memorializes Sandy since 2013 on the “Sandyversary” of 10/29.Ĭarolina Salguero, Founder and Executive Director of PortSide says “After riding out hurricane Sandy on our ship to protect her from the storm, I and our Historian/Curator Peter Rothenberg came ashore to Red Hook. Immediately after the unveiling, joins us in Red Hook’s Barnacle Parade that kicks off at 4:00pm half a block up Pioneer Street and proceeds to pass the new signs. PortSide will also unveil a banner with a map of Red Hook Sandy flooding made by a local cartographer Jim McMahon. Sandy’s surge was 5.75 feet high at this location. This sign is an official program of FEMA and NYC Emergency Management. On the 7th anniversary of hurricane Sandy, October 29, 2019, the nonprofit PortSide NewYork will unveil a Sandy High Water Mark sign at the pedestrian entrance to Atlantic Basin/NYC Ferry/Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook, Brooklyn. West end of Pioneer Street at Conover Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY 11231įollowed by 4pm Barnacle Parade which musters at Pioneer and Van Brunt, one block away. Pedestrian gate to Atlantic Basin/NYC Ferry/Brooklyn Cruise Terminal Unveiling of Atlantic Basin Sandy High Water Mark sign Red Hook Sandy Flood Map Press Release Unveiling of Atlantic Basin Sandy High Water Mark sign Red Hook Sandy Flood Map PortSide also unveiled a banner with a map of Red Hook Sandy flooding made by a local cartographer Jim McMahon. FEMA executed the idea and created the Sandy High Water Mark program, and NYC Emergency Management is now involved in the program. According to Ken Curtin, the Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator FEMA for Sandy in NY (see his video below), PortSide was the first to propose such a sign program. The senior Federal Disaster Recovery team sought a follow-up with PortSide and come to meet us for many hours aboard the MARY WHALEN. The structure of the award event was to put all the honorees on a panel and pepper us with questions to harvest ideas. PortSide’s role in the creation of the Sandy High Water Mark FEMA/OEM programĬreating Sandy high water mark signs was a PortSide proposal at the White House event where we received our Champions of Change award for Sandy work. On the 7th anniversary of hurricane Sandy, October 29, 2019, PortSide NewYork unveiled a Sandy High Water Mark sign at the pedestrian entrance to Atlantic Basin/NYC Ferry/Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook, Brooklyn. ![]()
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