Ten years after Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the New York City area, the Army Corps of Engineers is proposing at $52.6 billion plan to protect the region from coastal storm risk. Plan 3B includes seawalls, surge gates, flood walls, levees and more but still can’t guarantee perfect protection. Watch the video to find out what’s included in the plan, who opposes it and how it will change the NYC coastline forever.
[WATCH] New York City’s Most Famous Deli Survived by Selling Its Air Rights
In this short video by YouTuber Urbanist: Exploring Cities, see how Katz's Deli survived to this day by selling its air rights, and its light and air easement rights.
[WATCH] Exploring the Myth of 76th Street Station in the NYC Subway
Urban legend has it that under the intersection of 76th street and Pitkin Avenue, just a few blocks away from Grant Avenue station and just east of Euclid Avenue station, there is an abandoned, unfinished station. The station supposedly was part of a plan to extend the IND Fulton Line to 229th street, in Cambria Heights. The myth has been kept alive by small pieces of evidence and what was supposedly an April Fool’s Day joke post detailing the history of the rumored station. So is there anything to this urban legend? Does 76th street station exist? I decided to travel to the supposed location of the station to find out more.