SCHENECTADY After floodwaters rushed into 4 Washington Ave. when tropical storms Irene and Lee hit here 10 years ago, homeowner Meredith Anker chose to raise…
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This bipartisan legislation follows the release of an alarming study earlier this year by the First Street Foundation. Photo by: Shutterstock U.S. Representatives Kathleen Rice (NY-04) and Andrew Garbarino (NY-02) introduced the National Flood Insurance Program Reporting on Impact to Seaboards and Counties (NFIP RISC) Act to require the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to release a comprehensive impact analysis of new flood insurance rates at least six months before any changes can be made to the NFIP. Additionally, the bill would prohibit any changes to FEMA’s flood-risk assessment methodology during, or within six months following, the COVID-19 emergency declaration.
Schiffer Publishing announces City Hall by Arthur Drooker
Los Angeles City Hall (1928). Photography copyright Arthur Drooker from the book City Hall published by Schiffer.
NEW YORK, NY
.-City Hall by Arthur Drooker is the first book to feature striking photographs of the most architecturally distinctive and historically significant city halls in the United States of America. Organized chronologically, this stunning volume presents fifteen remarkable city halls from across the nation, covering the evolution of American civic architecture from the early nineteenth century to the present day and representing a diversity of styles, such as Federalist, art deco, beaux-arts, and modern. Among the city halls documented in the book are New York, the oldest; Philadelphia, once the tallest building in the world; and Boston, the first major brutalist building in the US.
and local businesses are getting tremendous amounts of money that were laid out, which will certainly help people with their property taxes. much of the slowdown, if you will, is because first of all it took congress almost three months to act. and then after that you had 60 days where the government had to solicit opinions. and also a lot of what they re trying to do is make sure there is no waste of money, the claims are proper. we work with fema, the spa, and we worked with new york rising in new york, which distributes the funds, and i think it is speeding up. again, it took a while for everything to be approved at the federal level, and then the state. and fema has been giving a lot more money, and all i can say is the process is speed iing up. for anybody out of their home as a number of my constituents are, it is still a problem.
are proper. we try to work with fema. we work with the s.p.a., we did for a while. and now we worked with new york rising in new york, which distributes the funds and i think it is speeding up. again, it took a while for everything to be approved at the federal level, and then the state. and fema has been giving a lot more money, and all i can say is the process is speeding up. for anybody out of their home as a number of my constituents are, it still is a real problem. we are far, far ahead of where we were just a year ago. i was at a commemoration event that was held yesterday in lindenhurst. which was hit particularly hard. a number of them have had damage. this is the worst storm we have really had in the history of new york. over 60, $70 billion worth of damage was done.