{"id":24647,"date":"2025-10-31T22:21:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/24647\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T22:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:21:24","slug":"flooding-across-brooklyn-sparks-calls-for-long-term-fixes-in-greenpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/24647\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding across Brooklyn sparks calls for long-term fixes in Greenpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Streets across Brooklyn turned into rivers after heavy rain swept through the borough on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>In Greenpoint, residents are urging elected officials to do more to prevent future flooding. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey put a Band-Aid on it after it happens and hope it won\u2019t happen again,\u201d said Patrick, a Greenpoint resident.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Department of Environment Protection and local leaders broke ground on the $1.9 million \u201cGateway to Greenpoint\u201d project, designed to capture a million gallons of stormwater once complete. <\/p>\n<p>The agency also launched a pilot program earlier this year called \u201cAdopt-a-Catch Basin,\u201d asking residents to keep catch basins and storm drains clear of debris.<\/p>\n<p>DEP Commissioner Rohit Aggarwala said climate change and aging infrastructure are making floods more frequent. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re upgrading the system to handle today\u2019s weather, but it\u2019s costly and takes time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Streets across Brooklyn turned into rivers after heavy rain swept through the borough on Thursday. In Greenpoint, residents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,14236,2422,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-24647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-flooding","12":"tag-greenpoint","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}