October 14, 2013
New York City announced its first purchase of a home damaged by Superstorm Sandy on Oct. 10, acquiring property from a Staten Island woman whose husband and daughter were killed during the historic storm. Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the purchase, …
May 6, 2013
Rebecca Hoskins poked through the debris in her flood-wrecked house: a TV here, a light fixture there. Someone had been in and taken down the curtains. She blinked back a tear. It was a crisp early spring day and her …
May 6, 2013
Joseph Szczesny’s modest Staten Island home in New York was inundated when Superstorm Sandy slammed into the U.S. East Coast in October. Now six months later, the 63-year-old bridge repairman and his fiance are all but alone in their Oakwood …