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Barry Hartman got a sinking feeling when he saw a recent report on WABC-TV’s “Eyewitness News” about contractor Barry Minsky.
Minsky, according to the report, had been hired by Hartman’s neighbors, Lonnie and Jamie Green, to repair their home after Superstorm Sandy damaged it. Almost two years, and nearly $220,000, later, the Green home was still not finished, the work that had been done was not up to code and the Greens were paying a mortgage and disaster insurance on a home they couldn’t live in.
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By Tom Jordan
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10/15/14
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Last week, Nassau County came through on its promise to help Artie DeGannaro restore his lawn after it was ravaged by Superstorm Sandy almost two years ago. But it was about more than just his lawn …
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By Tom Jordan
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10/1/14
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Three years ago last weekend — on Aug. 28, 2011 — Tropical Storm Irene touched down in Brooklyn before raging across the South Shore of Long Island and causing massive flooding, downing thousands of trees and leaving behind widespread property damage.
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By Tom Jordan
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9/3/14
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Eight displaced Island Park residents appeared on the “Halftime Howie Show” on WGBB Radio on Sunday to express their mounting frustration with NY Rising as they try to rebuild their homes almost two full years after Superstorm Sandy.
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8/20/14
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As a record rainfall continued through Tuesday night, and then through the next morning, one couldn’t help but think of Superstorm Sandy and the approximately $65 billion in damages it wrought.
Island Park Mayor Michael McGinty was no different. “Every event is eye-opening,” he said. “We know the implications of a major storm.”
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By Tom Jordan
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8/20/14
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In a press release last week, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office announced a an initiative to allot $300 million through the NY Rising Housing Recovery Program to help enable homeowners to elevate their property to protect against hurricane damage. This money, the Governor’s office said, was on top of the $350 that has already been promised to residents whose homes were damaged by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012.
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8/6/14
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced last week that up to $300 million has been made available through the State’s NY Rising Housing Recovery Program to support home elevations for 6,575 homeowners. Individuals eligible for this round of funding experienced damage to their homes as a result of Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Irene or Tropical Storm Lee. The Optional Home Elevation and Mitigation Initiative is being offered in addition to other housing recovery assistance that has been made available through NY Rising.
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8/6/14
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Superstorm Sandy will be remembered as one of Nassau County’s most demoralizing calamities: the miles of rubble that choked the expanses where houses had stood in dignified symmetry, the thousands of Long Islanders living in limbo, forced to use their savings to stay afloat. People weren’t the only ones affected by the storm, though. Sandy devastated wildlife throughout Nassau’s Western Bays, which scientists had already considered to be fragile ecosystems –– many on the brink of collapse –– long before the storm.
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By Stapha Charleme
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6/20/14
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently rejected the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s request to fund a $690 million outflow pipe that would stretch from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant three miles into the Atlantic Ocean.
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6/19/14
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As many South Shore residents continue to pick up the pieces 19 months after Superstorm Sandy, county officials announced a bipartisan agreement to borrow $14.4 million to re-establish the Clean and Seed program.
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By Brian Croce
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6/18/14
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