Friday, the city announced the completion of the second phase of what's called the Broad Channel Project in Queens, which raised four area streets and added new sewers and catch basins to the roads.
NEW YORK — The city is touting a new completed construction project that is protecting homes and businesses in Queens against climate change.Rising flood waters were an issue for several blocks along the Broad Channel, but people hope those concerns have now been washed away.
The total cost for the two phases came with a price tag of nearly $97 million, but came in under budget by nearly $4 million. Local politicians say that money will be kept in the community.' when we knew it was coming in under budget is work with the city to make sure they put it to another block on the other side that has a really bad flooding problem also,' Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato said.
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