Planning For the Next Sandy, Manhattan Building Installs a $250k
GateS  After Hurricane Sandy blew through New York in October,
the lion's share of media coverage focused on the beachfront,
where damage was most visible. In lower Manhattan, though, the
nine-foot storm surge took a subterranean toll, ruining millions
of dollars worth of mechanical systems and forcing many
developers to consider how they'd retrofit for the next big one.
One downtown tower's plan to stave off the rising tides? A
towering, $250,000 airtight gate.  2 Gold, an 839-unit rental
complex in the Financial District, was one of the hardest hit
buildings in Manhattan—the city even declared uninhabitable
after the storm. This week, after a lengthy legal battle with
pissed-off tenants and $15 million in repairs, the building's
owners unveiled the centerpiece of their defense plan: a 13-foot
gate that will gird its basement against the next "storm of the
century" (maybe we should just cut to the chase and start
calling them storms of the dec