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A boarded up home. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Neighbors who missed out or gave up [/three-years-after-sandy-build-it-back-makes-headway-in-sheepshead-bay/] on the city’s Build it Back [http://www.nyc.gov/html/recovery/html/homeowners/rebuild.shtml] program may get a second chance to have their home elevated thanks to an $8.8
governors office of storm recovery
Sewage backflow inside a Lake Avenue bungalow. (Photo: Melissa Haggerty / NY Rising [http://stormrecovery.ny.gov/sites/default/files/crp/community/documents/gerritsenbeach_sheepsheadbay_nyrcr_plan.pdf] )When Superstorm Sandy’s record-setting 13-foot surge rolled into southern Brooklyn, it overwhelmed the city’s aging sewer infrastructure [/deutsch-wants-a-solution-to-sewage-back-ups-after-storms/]. Millions of gallons
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Coast at Sea Gate. (Photo: Dennis [https://www.flickr.com/photos/samsebeskazal/11939724114/] / Flickr)Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries announced Monday they had secured $100,000 from FEMA [https://www.fema.gov/] to begin reconstructing the damaged sea wall to protect Sea Gate and Coney
extreme weather events
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration is looking for organizations willing to take a bundle of state cash and turn it into a job training program aimed at low and very low income New Yorkers in Southern Brooklyn and Staten Island. The Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR) announced today
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The Gerrittsen Beach Fire Department (Source: GBFD.net)The Gerrittsen Beach Fire Department [http://gbfd.net/], the volunteer firefighting base of Gerritsen Beach where many locals took refuge after Superstorm Sandy, is slated to get a $2.4 million overhaul to protect it from future extreme weather events. The funds