Click here to listen to part 1 of the program Click here to listen to part 2 of the program Click here to listen to part 3 of the program New York’s Governor Cuomo says the lesson of Superstorm Sandy is the vulnerability of coastal development to climate change. Instead of rebuilding damaged properties, he wants to …
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Feb 06
Oakwood Residents Concerned About Flooding From Storm By Aaron Dickens
NY1 VIDEO: Some Island residents were concerned Friday that the incoming snowstorm would overflow a nearby estuary, which spilled out into their homes during Hurricane Sandy. To watch the video please click here
Feb 06
Mr. Cuomo’s Sandy Plan Editorial
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 …
Feb 05
Staten Island lawmakers back Cuomo proposal to buy and demolish homes destroyed by Sandy By Tom Wrobleski
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 …
Feb 05
Staten Islanders call on Cuomo to buy out Sandy-wrecked homes By GERRY SHIELDS
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 …
Feb 04
S.I. Residents Weigh Proposed State Buyouts Of Storm-Damaged Homes By: Aaron Dickens
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
Feb 04
For Some Struggling on Staten Island, Buy-Outs Welcome By Colby Hamilton
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 …
Feb 04
Cuomo Seeking Home Buyouts in Flood Zones By THOMAS KAPLAN
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 …
Feb 04
Sandy-Shaken Staten Island Applauds Cuomo’s Proposal To Buy Out Destroyed Homes by Saki Knafo
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 …
Jan 28
Stories From Main Street: S.I. Sandy Victim Getting New Custom Guitar From Brooklyn Man
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 …