Those zones include an additional 600,000 New Yorkers or a 37-percent increase over those who were in the former Zones listed as A, B and C. So now, each zone is more refined. Zone 1 has 290,000 ...

Johnny Milano for The New York Times Trump Administration Presses Cities to Evict Homeowners From Flood Zones The community of Mastic Beach on Long Island, N.Y., where some homes will be subject ...

If you’ve paid attention to the flooding in the Rockaways from Hurricane Sandy, it’s probably not a surprise that much of Howard Beach is now considered to be in a flood zone in the new FEMA maps, ...

The idea, said Alison Branco, climate adaptation director at The Nature Conservancy in New York, which has contributed $250,000 for Mastic Beach property buyouts, is “to make everyone safe and ...

Up to 200 homes in flood prone areas across Babylon and Mastic Beach are eligible for funds from a $2.4 billion initiative to reduce flood risk along 83 miles of coastline from Fire Island Inlet ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Home sales in several of Staten Island’s flood-prone areas increased at a faster pace than those in low-risk zones, a new study says, and the median price of such ...