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Date registered: January 24, 2013

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  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 06

Mr. Cuomo’s Sandy Plan Editorial

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News, The New York Times

Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York wants to spend as much as $400 million to buy and raze damaged homes in the floodplains of New York State. These properties, victims of Hurricane Sandy, would then be turned into parks, bird sanctuaries, dunes or simply stretches of open beach, serving as buffer zones to protect residents inland from …

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Feb 05

Staten Island lawmakers back Cuomo proposal to buy and demolish homes destroyed by Sandy By Tom Wrobleski

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News, Staten Island Advance

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Give the shoreline back to Mother Nature. Staten Island lawmakers on Monday said they backed Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ambitious proposal to buy and demolish homes destroyed by Hurricane Sandy and permanently preserve the land as underveloped coastline. “Some portions of Staten Island should be ceded back to Mother Nature,” said City …

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Feb 05

Staten Islanders call on Cuomo to buy out Sandy-wrecked homes By GERRY SHIELDS

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News, NY Post

DISASTER: Staten Island homes like this one in Oakwood would be eligible for buyouts.   ALBANY — They want to flee Mother Nature’s wrath on Staten Island — but not in Long Beach. Residents in the Oakwood Beach and Fox Beach sections of Staten Island overwhelmingly want a buyout Gov. Cuomo is proposing for victims …

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Feb 04

S.I. Residents Weigh Proposed State Buyouts Of Storm-Damaged Homes By: Aaron Dickens

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News, NY1

NY1 VIDEO: While a committee of homeowners in the Foxwood Beach section of Staten Island are eagerly studying Governor Andrew Cuomo’s $400 million proposal to buy damaged hurricane-damaged homes in flood-prone areas, other residents in the borough are reluctant to leave their waterside homes. Watch the video here: http://statenisland.ny1.com/content/top_stories/176480/s-i–residents-weigh-proposed-state-buyouts-of-storm-damaged-homes

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Feb 04

For Some Struggling on Staten Island, Buy-Outs Welcome By Colby Hamilton

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News, WNYC News

Some of the yellow demolition machines sit idle in now-vacant lots. Some are busy filling trucks with debris. The nearby homes that aren’t at some stage of being torn down in the Oakwood Beach section of Staten Island may soon meet the same fate. At least that’s what more than 130 of the residents in …

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Feb 04

Cuomo Seeking Home Buyouts in Flood Zones By THOMAS KAPLAN

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News, The New York Times

Karsten Moran for The New York Times Joseph Tirone Jr., a homeowner, leads the Oakwood Beach Buyout Committee on Staten Island. “These people have been so beat up,” said Mr. Tirone. “It’s just gotten to be too much.” By THOMAS KAPLAN Published: February 3, 2013 308 Comments   ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is proposing to spend as …

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Feb 04

Sandy-Shaken Staten Island Applauds Cuomo’s Proposal To Buy Out Destroyed Homes by Saki Knafo

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Huffington Post, News

Three weeks after Hurricane Sandy destroyed his home, Joe Monte stood up at a meeting of Staten Island storm survivors and implored them to give up on any hopes of rebuilding. “I personally don’t want no bleach, no sheetrock, that’s not what we’re here for,” he said. “That area was meant for doing what it did a …

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Jan 28

Stories From Main Street: S.I. Sandy Victim Getting New Custom Guitar From Brooklyn Man

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CBS Local, News

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Superstorm Sandy was a cruel, viscous monster. “The entire house was just covered in sewage, in mud,” said Andrew Carro of Oakwood Beach, Staten Island. He and his wife Julie lost everything. Their home shifted and the roof caved in. “It looked like someone picked up the house, shook it around with …

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Jan 24

Gov. Cuomo to Sandy victims on the coasts: Sell your house BY KENNETH LOVETT

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New York Daily News, News

The governor wants Sandy victims along the coasts to sell their homes, get a check and no longer live where ‘Mother Nature doesn’t want you.’ He expects many families to stay because the rebuilding has already begun in many areas. KEIVOM/NEWS Gov. Andrew Cuomo thinks his plan for Sandy victims is a win, with those …

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Jan 24

Cuomo considers buyouts to waterfront residents, while Bloomberg demurs

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Capital New York

Fox Beach after a recent storm. (Joseph Tirone) Governor Andrew Cuomo thinks the state should offer voluntary buyouts to residents of waterfront homes badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy. He said as much in his State of the State speech earlier this month, and again this week, during an interview with the Daily News that ran today. “At one point, …

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