Mayor Adams breaks ground on $218 million public safety project

RED HOOK — On Tuesday, Sept. 16, New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration broke ground on Red Hook Coastal Resiliency (RHCR), a $218 million public safety project.

RHCR will protect neighborhood residents and businesses from the effects of future storm surges and flooding above sea level, keeping more New Yorkers safe during extreme weather events and saving hundreds of millions of dollars in future repairs from destructive extreme weather events.

RHCR will commission a series of floodwalls, floodgates, street redesigns and other infrastructure enhancements to build a continuous line of long-term resiliency features in the Red Hook neighborhood, creating a two-mile integrated coastal defense system stretching across Atlantic Basin and Beard Street, two of the neighborhood’s mos