When Your Dream Apartment Keeps Flooding

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 THE HOUSING MARKET [When Your Dream Apartment Keeps Flooding]( To move or not to move, that is the question. Video: Brittany Worgan Brit Worgan has developed a simple but effective floodproofing system for the basement level of her South Slope duplex: First, elevate everything. “We have everything raised up as much as we can on cinder blocks and pallets,” she says. “Nothing pretty.” There are also strategically placed flood bags, stuffed with crystalized superabsorbent polymer, stashed around the bathroom and the front door to catch the water that usually pours in during storms. She has water sensors on at all times and dry-wet shop vacs ready to go. After three consecutive years of flooding, she also knows to clear out the drains on the block with a rake whenever it starts raining. “It’s definitely scary,” Worgan, who shares the apartment with her wife and young children, says of her new normal of routine flooding. “But it feels less scary when it happens now.” [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [The Little Cross-Shaped House in the Pines The perfectly kept Kodak House hits the market.]( By Kim Velsey [A Carnegie Hill One-Bed With Built-Ins Galore And statement windows in Morningside Heights.]( By Curbed Staff [Watching Their Garden Grow In 1981, Peter Schlesinger and Eric Boman bought this “romantic ruin” on Long Island and put down roots.]( By Wendy Goodman [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( [Sign up to get The Listings Edit](, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved