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November 12, 2013 by Joe Lamport, Gotham Gazette

GOTHAM GAZETTE: Examining Superstorm Sandy’s Toll On Housing

Like thousands of others whose lives were upended by Superstorm Sandy on Oct. 29, 2012, Queens resident Grantley Hunt and his family may have escaped the storm surge, but a year later, the floodwaters’ toll on housing in New York City persists.

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November 1, 2013 by by Melissa Checker, Gotham Gazette

GOTHAM GAZETTE: A Year After Superstorm Sandy, Turmoil Continues On Staten Island

Until October 30, 2012, Dorothy Nolan lived with her husband in his childhood home in Fox Beach, a four-block subdivision of the Oakwood Beach neighborhood of Staten Island. Comprised mostly of bungalows constructed between 1930 and 1950, this was the kind of neighborhood where people stuck around, worked on their homes, and passed them down […]