Yonkers waterfront primed for climate-change planning
Photo credit: Leslie Barbaro | A view of the Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse. The walkway along the Hudson River between Horan's Landing Park and Kingsland Park was open for pedestrians Sunday in Tarrytown. The site around the former General Motors site eventually will become part of RiverWalk. Visitors also were able to walk over to the Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse. (Aug. 5, 2012)
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Yonkers will rethink the $1.5 billion in new Hudson River waterfront development projects currently on the table to take into account tidal surges, flooding and the new realities of climate change.
The ongoing redevelopment projects were not designed to address these issues on the level of planning that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called for since the devastating...
