Great. Another thing to worry about.

Did you notice if the sea level only rose 4m, Laguardia and JFK would be submerged over 80% ?

Manhattan looks pretty safe for the next couple hundred years. New Jersey and Long Island, not so much.

Williamsburg and Greenpoint, not so much! Believe it or not, i always have this NYC flood map in mind to select a nab where i would potentially buy. Call me paranoid but seen the price-sq foot in NYC, i won´t take any risks.

Yeah great tool... somehow the water level could raise 7 meters yet not all of Battery Park City, the landfill east of Pearl Street and the area that was once the Lispenard Meadow Swamp wont be underwater. Not sure what they used for their elevation data.

By the time the sea level rises 4M, we won't be flying in planes. Teleportation.

Looking at land elevation is deceptive. Our problem is all the underground infrastructure. Not much use being above water when the core transportation, fresh water, gas, electricity facilities are flooded.

Also, absolute sea-level rise won't be felt as soon as higher and more frequent storm surges.

The insurers worry about all this more than we do, of course.

Watching the FDR on a rainy day is still quit amusing.

We already use pumps 24/7 to keep the subway tunnels from flooding. If they stopped working, the tunnels would fill completely with water within days. Not sure what impact a rising sea has on this--cannot be good. Another reason not to have children--too many headaches for them to deal with. The end is near. Repent.

Our children will invent a force field capable of holding back the water. That same technology will be used for space travel.

Does anyone here realize how much a 4m rise is?

It will happen so slowly (if it does) that the gentrification of Manhattan neighborhoods will seem lightning fast by comparison.

Buy your Washington Heights apartments now or be priced out forever!

AvUWS, took the words right out of my mouth.

However............. on another thread someone posted a link to a census-tract-by-census-tract map of the country with different data and 10-year changes. The tract for "Hudson Heights" had the highest percentage change in median income since 2000 - 50% or something outrageous. That just happens to be the highest elevation on the island of Manhattan:

"Bennett Park. General George Washington set up camp here during the Revolutionary War. (At 265 feet above sea level, it's the highest point of land in Manhattan.)...." nymag.com

Coincidence? Or are the smartest people in NYC also hysterical survivalists? ho ho ho ho Merry Xmas

http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer?hp

The biggest change in median income I've come across is the tract including Riverside South and the projects. Up 74%. But 48% are spending 30%+ of income on mortgage, much higher than nearby more-established tracts.