Santa Haanraadtz has lived in her home at 110 Bayswater Blvd., in Inwood, for 43 years, and has never seen a storm like Hurricane Sandy.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/14/19
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Town of Hempstead officials said they are ready to move on a $2.7 million project federal and state that aims to curb high-tide flooding in a portion of Inwood by installing check vales, drains and raising the roadways.
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/17/19
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Long Islanders can empathize with the victims of Hurricane Dorian, which devastated the Bahamas and left extensive damage in parts of the Carolinas. Nearly seven years after Hurricane Sandy hit, fears of the next Big One are still palpable in communities like . . .
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9/13/19
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With passage in both houses of the State Legislature, and a promise last week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act into law, New York state is poised to …
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By Peter Belfiore
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7/4/19
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Jessie Specht is not a sailor but in her eight years of living on Walnut Road in Inwood she spends a portion of her day checking tide times, moon phases and the weather because when it is high tide and the moon is in its full phase and with or without a storm her street and others in the community flood.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/14/19
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An $8.776 million drainage improvement project for the Village of Lawrence is expected to have a shovel hitting dirt in the summer of 2020, according to Nassau County officials and the engineers from the firm LKMA.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/21/19
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In 1997, a group of Hewlett and South Valley Stream residents banded together to oppose a New York American Water — then Long Island Water — project that would have altered the streets …
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By Peter Belfiore
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1/24/19
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As the last vestiges of the lingering warmth of summer fade, the Five Towns braces for rain, wind and even an outside chance of some wet snow this weekend.
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By Tyler Marko
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10/24/18
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While only a dozen or so Five Towns residents attended the Oct. 10 Army Corps of Engineers presentation at Cedarhurst Village Hall — in stark contrast to the crowd of 100 who had come to a …
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By Tyler Marko
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10/18/18
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The promise inscribed on the Statue of Liberty — “send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me” — is the promise of hope that America makes . . .
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5/17/18
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