Red Hook Brooklyn got hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. Alexandros Washburn, professor, resident and former chief urban designer of New York City was looking for ways to protect his community from the next flood when he discovered an unfinished underwater island in the New York harbor that could hold the key to Brooklyn’s resilient future.
Alexandros Washburn is a city designer and community builder. He is an architect who served as Chief Urban Designer for New York City in the Department of City Planning. When his neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn was flooded by Hurricane Sandy, he became a Professor the Stevens Institute of Technology to come up with ways to make cities resilient. He is now hyper-local, leading a community plan for the future of Red Hook out of the ground floor of his house.
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