New York City could lose more than 19,000 homes to flooding in the next 15 years, according to a report from the Regional Plan Association. The potential destruction, as detailed in The City ...

The panel, which comprised top climate change scientists and academics and was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, calculated that New York City would experience a "1-in-10 year coastal flood about ...

Los Angeles isn't the only one that is prone to experiencing pain from climate change. The Regional Plan Association is warning that as many as 19,300 homes in New York City could be wiped out as a ...

One hundred years ago, the Hudson River overflowed its banks, threatening a major flooding disaster in the city of Albany.

“If the wind blows the right way and there’s rain, we definitely get flooding all the way up here,” said Orion. Getting their car to higher ground away from Ditmars Street and its ...

Meanwhile, desperate NYC straphangers did their best Indiana Jones impression to cross a flooded subway platform on a “bridge” made of wooden crates. Riders at the 2nd Avenue F stop at the ...

Last week, scenes of extreme flooding in New York City made the rounds on social media, with parts of the city and Long Island appearing underwater as the intense rainfall overwhelmed the city's ...

Relentless construction is also causing the city to subside, exacerbating the risk of future flooding. The surface geology of New York City has been widely studied, but is fairly complex ...