Hurricane Ida in New York Technical Report 1: Building Performance: Basement Buildings and Urban Flooding

The document focuses on building performance in urban flooding situations, specifically targeting buildings with basements. It provides recommendations for building owners and city officials to improve safety and reduce risks associated with basement flooding. The recommendations include installing water sensors in basements, addressing risks of unenforced basement walls, providing guidance on pumping floodwater safely, encouraging building owners to take actions to improve building performance, evaluating and mitigating risks to basements, and retrofitting dry floodproofing measures to existing buildings.