Below is a growing list of resources, organizations, artists and activists that state of water is inspired by or who are in conversation with this project as it develops.

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The following groups and organizations are working in various ways to address community needs in Red Hook and Gowanus. This is not a comprehensive list, please share others that should be included here!

Organizations

  1. Red Hook Initiative & Red Hook Farms

  2. Gowanus Canal Conservancy

  3. Lenape Center

  4. Pioneer Works

  5. Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY

  6. Science + Resilience Institute of Jamaica Bay (NYC)

  7. Arts Gowanus

  8. Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club

Open Source Projects, Organizing Groups & Artists

    1. FloodWatch, a project of Science + Resilience Inistute of Jamaica Bay.

    2. Open Sewer Atlas

    3. Fifth Avenue Committee 

    4. FloodNet & NYC FloodNet Dashboard 

    5. Red Hook WaterStories by PortSide NewYork 

    6. 350 Brooklyn

    7. Riverkeeper

    8. Artist Mary Mattingly’s Public Water 

    9. Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Flint Is Family

Local & State govt. offices, agencies, etc.

  1. Alexa Avilés (Red Hook / District 38)

  2. Shahana Hanif (Gowanus / District 39)

Climate Articles, News & Reports

  1. New Normal Report by Bill de Blasio administration (PDF file, updated Nov. 2021)

  2. Gowanus Canal Conservancy Lowlands Master Plan (2019)

  3. NYC Stormwater Resiliency Plan (May 2021)

  4. NY Attorney General’s Letter to National Weather Service on Language Access

  5. New Data Dashboard Reporting Street-Level Flooding in NYC Gives Government, Responders, the Public, and Researchers Real-Time Information on Rising Waters (Sept. 1, 2022)

Law, Legislation & Policy

  1. NYC Council Local Law 172 of 2018 that “[requires] a map of areas in the city most vulnerable to increased flooding in the future and a plan to address such flooding.” 

  2. Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, signed into state law in July 2019. Read more here.