Waterfront Alliance Selects Starr Whitehouse and WSP to Lead Coney Island Creek Resilience Project

Waterfront Alliance, in collaboration with Coney Island Beautification Project, NYC Department of Environmental Protection, and NYC Parks, has selected Starr Whitehouse to lead a technical planning study of Coney Island Creek, supported by global engineering firm WSP. The project will build on a legacy of planning initiatives dating to a landmark NYC Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) study in 2016 alongside the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Harbors and Tributaries Study (HATS), an NYCEDC capital project upstream on the creek, and the previous community engagement effort. The study will seek to: assess all previous studies, scope further studies and design approaches to make progress on critical resilience and ecological goals, find common ground between community visions for Coney Island Creek and relevant government agencies, and assess the feasibility of hybrid and nature-based flood reduction solutions on the creek as alternatives to sea walls and levees. The Starr Whitehouse-WSP team was chosen due to both firms’ reputation for bringing nature-based solutions to climate challenges and their deep expertise working with agencies and neighborhoods across New York City. Read more in Waterfront Alliance’s WaterWire at the link above.