Central Park Is Opening a Lab to Study Climate Change

For Norman Selby, last September’s Hurricane Ida was a call to action.

Selby, a member of the Central Park Conservancy Board of Trustees and a former senior partner at McKinsey & Co., knew that something had to be done to mitigate future damage caused by extreme weather events after Ida dumped a record 3.15 inches of rain on the park over the course of an hour, flooding the famous Boathouse and damaging roughly 50 trees.