New York City's children
exposed to flood risk


Angeles Martinez, Geunhee Lee

The project seeks to analyze the exposure to flood risk of the school facilities and highlight the current capital budget the New York City's local government is spending to build new schools and improve existing schools.

Natural hazards cause a direct impact on students and teachers, damaging and destroying the school infrastructure. In the aftermath of a disaster, the education service is disruptive, impacting the school operations, learning, and teaching processes.

Budget Allocation
Within floodplain zone
Within non-floodplain zone
Budget allocation The total capital budget for improvement and capacity school projects is around US$10.4 billion, 9% of it is allocated to schools in floodplain zones. There are a total of 206 schools located within floodplain zones. From this group, 36 schools have interventions related to flooding damage such as roof reparation, flood elimination and improvement, sandy recovery, and water penetration. From the total budget, $926,263,150 (9%) allocated to these schools, $533,280,253 is allocated for flooding risk mitigation related projects. Hence, there is an average budget of $14,813,348 per school that is used to flood risk mitigation.
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Results

117,348 students are at immediate risk from flooding hazard. 0.5% of the total capital budget is used for flood mitigation in floodplain zones.
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