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Date registered: January 24, 2013

Latest posts

  1. Governor Cuomo Announces Staten Island Buyouts — February 18, 2017
  2. After The Waves, Staten Island Homeowner Takes Sandy Buyout — November 17, 2014
  3. Fox Beach fades to green After Superstorm Sandy, Staten Island neighbors give their homes to Nature — October 29, 2014
  4. Oakwood Beach: Sell out, tear down and leave — October 20, 2014
  5. Retreat from the Water’s Edge BY NATE LAVEY — October 16, 2014

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  1. Cuomo Seeking Home Buyouts in Flood Zones By THOMAS KAPLAN — 1 comment
  2. Second House In Oakwood Beach Demolished After Sandy Buyout — 1 comment
  3. In a Global Warming World: Protect and Rebuild or Retreat? — 1 comment
  4. Fox Beach fades to green After Superstorm Sandy, Staten Island neighbors give their homes to Nature — 1 comment

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Feb 18

Governor Cuomo Announces Staten Island Buyouts

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Anniversary, Announcements, News, YouTube

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Nov 17

After The Waves, Staten Island Homeowner Takes Sandy Buyout

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Anniversary, NPR

Stephen Drimalas stands outside his former home in Staten Island’s Ocean Breeze neighborhood. He rebuilt his home after Superstorm Sandy but recently decided to sell it to the state of New York. Jennifer Hsu/WNYC Two years after Superstorm Sandy struck the Northeast, hundreds of Staten Islanders are deciding whether to sell their shorefront homes to …

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Oct 29

Fox Beach fades to green After Superstorm Sandy, Staten Island neighbors give their homes to Nature

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Anniversary

Patti Snyder was 8 when her family moved into a white bungalow a stone’s throw from the sea. Her Italian immigrant father wanted his children to have the opportunity to regularly enjoy what for years he had known only on vacations. Located in the borough of Staten Island in New York, Fox Beach was the …

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Oct 20

Oakwood Beach: Sell out, tear down and leave

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Anniversary, Crain's New York

While many city neighborhoods hit by Hurricane Sandy have yet to rebuild, Staten Island’s Oakwood Beach is returning to its original state at breakneck speed. That earlier condition, however, is the uninhabited marshy lowlands of the type that greeted Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first European to cross the narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island 500 …

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Oct 16

Retreat from the Water’s Edge BY NATE LAVEY

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Anniversary, New Yorker

Nearly two years after Hurricane Sandy, New York has begun a “managed retreat” from some low-lying areas that are vulnerable to flooding and storm surges. Many residents of the Oakwood Beach section of Staten Island have opted into a program that allows them to sell their homes at pre-Sandy value, to the State of New …

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Apr 06

State Expands Sandy Buyout Program to Graham Beach

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News, NY1, Ocean Breeze

The state is expanding its buyout program to a third Hurricane Sandy-affected neighborhood on Staten Island. The state’s enhanced buyout area will now include Graham Beach on the island’s east shore. Under the program, homeowners who had their properties wiped out or heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy can receive the pre-storm value of their homes …

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Apr 04

S.I. Homeowners Hope Buyout Committee Will Spur Action

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News, NY1, Ocean Breeze

NY1 VIDEO: A group of homeowners on Staten Island who submitted an application for state buyouts months ago but have yet to hear back have formed a committee in hopes of getting Governor Andrew Cuomo’s attention.  Watch the video at the link below. source: http://statenisland.ny1.com/content/news/206433/s-i–homeowners-hope-buyout-committee-will-spur-action

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Feb 25

Next Areas Proposed For State Buyout Program

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Announcements

These are the next 4 proposed areas to receive a buyout from the State, as submitted by their respective community leaders, and assisted by Joseph Tirone Jr.  These areas all have petitioned the State as a result of a history of serious flooding and were all hit particularly hard by Sandy.  Each community has presented …

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Jan 29

In a Global Warming World: Protect and Rebuild or Retreat?

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Duke, News

Where Joe Tirone’s house in Oakwood Beach on Staten Island, New York, used to stand. Tirone’s house was sold to the state and demolished as part of a buyout plan that will turn his neighborhood into greenspace that the state hopes will serve as protection from future storms. (Joe Tirone) Hurricane Sandy decimated coastal communities. …

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Jan 20

After Sandy, Staten Island Community Chooses State Buyout

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Epoch Times, News

As demolitions begin, Staten Islanders still grappling with reality of returning land to nature By Genevieve Belmaker, Epoch Times | January 20, 2014 Last Updated: January 21, 2014 4:29 pm NEW YORK—Under gray skies last Thursday morning in Staten Island’s Oakwood Beach, the fifth home in this neighborhood to be demolished under the state’s buyout program gave way …

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