Flood-exposure briefing 80 Pioneer Street · Red Hook · Brooklyn
80 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn 11231. Block 597, Lot 30. Industrial Business Zone (IBZ-RH). Queried 2026-05-02 14:22 ET.
01 Status Coastal-edge, post-Sandy, multi-hazard
The address sits 380 ft inland of the Erie Basin bulkhead, at a ground elevation of 6.2 ft NAVD88[1] — within the 2012 Sandy Inundation Zone, which recorded a peak storm tide of 11.4 ft NAVD88 at the Battery[2] 2.4 mi to the northwest. FEMA's preliminary FIRM places the parcel in Zone AE (BFE 11 ft NAVD88)[4], a 4.8 ft freeboard above current grade. The site is upgradient of two FloodNet sensors and three blocks from a chronic 311 cluster.
02 Empirical evidence EMP
FloodNet sensor BK-RH-002 (Coffey Park, 1,200 ft south) recorded 7 above-curb events between 2024-06 and 2026-04[3], with a peak depth of 14.3 cm during the 2025-09-29 nor'easter. USGS post-Sandy high-water marks within 500 ft cluster between 6.8 and 8.1 ft NAVD88[1], consistent with 0.6–1.9 ft of standing water at the queried address during the storm.
03 Modeled scenarios MOD
DEP's Moderate Stormwater Scenario (2.13 in/hr design storm) shows ponding ≥4 in across the western half of the lot[5], routed by the 1.2% slope toward Imlay St. Under NPCC4's 2050 90th-percentile sea-level rise (30 in)[6], the parcel falls within the projected daily-tidal floodplain by mid-century. Synthetic SAR backscatter for 2025-09-14 (Sentinel-1 cloud-occluded) was generated by TerraMind v1.2 and is presented as a prior, not an observation[9]; treat with appropriate caution.
04 Policy context
311 flood complaints within the surrounding census tract total 89 calls over 2019–2025, with seasonal clustering in Aug–Oct[7]. NFIP claims aggregated to tract 36047008500 total $4.1M across 47 paid losses since 2000[8]. The site lies within the NYC Waterfront Revitalization Program Coastal Risk Area; CEQR §817 review applies to any discretionary action[10].