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Council Member Treyger Calls for Hurricane Sandy Relief Task Force

Council Member Mark Treyger of the 47th District (Photo via Council Member Treyger’s Office)With the 5-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy approaching, City Council Member Mark Treyger has called for the creation of a new Hurricane Sandy Recovery Task Force. Council Member Treyger, of the 47th District, is chair

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Treyger Calls On FEMA To Conduct Review Of Insurance Companies Underpaying Sandy Victims

In the wake of multiple reports [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/nyregion/hurricane-sandy-victims-say-damage-reports-were-altered.html] that insurance companies underpaid Superstorm Sandy victims by altering damage assessment forms — from Manhattan Beach and Coney Island — Councilman Mark Treyger is calling on FEMA to conduct a comprehensive review of all Sandy payout

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The Total Number Of Build It Back Construction Projects Hits New High At… Six

Sheepshead Bay’s Randazzo’s after the flood.Mayor Bill de Blasio announced over the weekend that Build it Back payments were finally in the mail [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2014/03/mayor-first-build-it-back-payments-are-in-the-mail-additional-100-million-allocated/] , and that some construction projects are now underway. The city’s new director of Housing Recovery, Amy

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Sandy-Stricken NYCHA Houses Stuck With Shoddy, Expensive Boilers Until 2016

A home in Seagate after Sandy. (Photo by Erica Sherman)The Committee on Recovery and Resiliency held its first hearing last Thursday in Coney Island and during the meeting New York City Housing Authority revealed that housing projects that were affected by Superstorm Sandy would be stuck with shoddily built