Category Archive: New York Daily News

Feb 17

Hurricane Sandy final blow: Staten Island neighborhood abandons all hope as residents seek buyout BY MATT LYSIAK AND GREG B. SMITH

Eighty percent of the 183 homeowners in a six-block section of Oakwood Beach have banded together to ask Gov. Cuomo to buy them out — all of them at once. DEBBIE EGAN-CHIN/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Residents of Fox Beach ask the government to buy them out of their houses at pre-storm rates and use the …

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Jan 24

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

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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