A Howard Beach-Lindenwood Neighborhood Flood Report
Contact:
Hannah Burnett, NYSG Coastal Resilience Extension Specialist, E: heb84@cornell.edu, P: (718) 841-7609
NYSG has responded to Queens’ community residents’ requests by launching neighborhood-level flood reporting and a related website
Brooklyn, NY, May 27, 2025 - New York City’s coastal neighborhoods face increasing rates of sunny day flooding during high tide. New York Sea Grant (NYSG) community partners in southern Queens (New York City/NYC) expressed a need for an easy way to visualize, download, and share information about flooding in their neighborhoods. Residents were already sharing photos through the NYC Community Flood Watch Project, and wanted a way to put their photographs in context using other sources of data.
In 2024, NYSG launched NYC Neighborhood Flood Reports (NFRs) and a website in partnership with FloodNet NYC. The reports are 2-page portraits of flooding at the neighborhood level in NYC. Collectively, they provide an overview of information about flooding in flood-prone communities in New York City.
The reports automatically incorporate data from FloodNet NYC flood sensors, resident reports of flooding to NYC’s 311 hotline, and MyCoast NY photo-reports of flooding from communities across the City. The number of available NFRs will increase as flood sensors are deployed to more areas of the City and as participation in the MyCoast NY tool expands. The NFRs are updated in June and January, and may be accessed and downloaded from the nyseagrant.org/floodinfonyc website with additional information, tools and resources related to flooding in NYC.
The NFRs are one of the latest examples of how New York Sea Grant is responding to community-level needs for resources associated with flooding events and impacts.
Project Partners/Funders:
• FloodNet NYC
• Funding: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency’s 2022 CTP Program Region 2
More Info: New York Sea Grant
Established in 1966, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s National Sea Grant College Program promotes the informed stewardship of coastal resources in 34 joint federal/state university-based programs in every U.S. coastal state (marine and Great Lakes) and Puerto Rico. The Sea Grant model has also inspired similar projects in the Pacific region, Korea and Indonesia.
Since 1971, New York Sea Grant (NYSG) has represented a statewide network of integrated research, education and extension services promoting coastal community economic vitality, environmental sustainability and citizen awareness and understanding about the State’s marine and Great Lakes resources.
NYSG historically leverages on average a 3 to 6-fold return on each invested federal dollar, annually. We benefit from this, as these resources are invested in Sea Grant staff and their work in communities right here in New York.
Through NYSG’s efforts, the combined talents of university scientists and extension specialists help develop and transfer science-based information to many coastal user groups—businesses and industries, federal, state and local government decision-makers and agency managers, educators, the media and the interested public.
New York Sea Grant, one of the largest of the state Sea Grant programs, is a cooperative program of the State University of New York (SUNY) and Cornell University. The program maintains Great Lakes offices at Cornell University, SUNY Buffalo, Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY Oswego, the Wayne County Cooperative Extension office in Newark, and in Watertown. In the State's marine waters, NYSG has offices at Stony Brook University and with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County on Long Island, in Queens, at Brooklyn College, with Cornell Cooperative Extension in NYC, in Bronx, with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County in Kingston, and with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Westchester County in Elmsford.
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