Sandy Buyout Program Expanded

The Cuomo administration, as part of the state's Superstorm Sandy recovery process, has expanded the NY Rising Housing Recovery Program, aimed at reversing the tide of residential development into vulnerable coastal wetlands by offering buyouts to 129 flooded-out Staten Island homeowners.

Homeowners in the Ocean Breeze section, where two people drowned in the flood last year and many homes

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"Build It Back" Slowed by Shutdown?

In back-to-back NY 1 interviews, Republican State Assembly Member Nicole Malliotakis and Republican Congressional Representative Michael Grimm scored the city's "Build it Back" Hurricane Sandy Recovery Program as slow to arrive on Staten Island.

According to Grimm, the city has done nothing, more than a year down the road, to help hard-hit Staten Islanders move back home.

But according to the

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Albanese to Local, State and Federal Government: "Subsidize Flood Insurance"

Democratic Mayoral candidate Sal Albanese has called on U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Michael Bloomberg to subsidize flood insurance payments for homeowners hard-hit by Hurricane Sandy through an intergovernmental partnership

Government failed, at every level, to take proactive steps to protect New York from a coastal storm we had

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Unity Towers Residents Associations Re-Open

According to a press release from Brooklyn Community Services, on Family Day, Saturday, August 24, residents of NYCHA Unity Towers Housing Development in Coney Island will celebrate the re-opening of the Towers' Residents Associations (RAs), closed since Hurricane Sandy.



Before the hurricane, the RAs provided residents, through events like Family Day, with arts and crafts for seniors and

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BAT Ferry Service Extended through January

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Council Member Vinnie Gentile today announced the extension of weekday ferry service between Sunset Park and Wall Street through January 31, 2014.

Mayor Bloomberg acknowledged that ferry service has proven to be a
popular and effective mode of transportation for Rockaways and Brooklyn
residents.

Ferries will continue to originate from the Rockaways, where the

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Battery Five Times More Likely to Flood again by Mid-Century

According to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Battery, at Manhattan's southern tip, is one of five national historic sites most likely to be lost to climate change.

When Superstorm Sandy hit New York City last year, its record storm
surge -- more than 14 feet above average -- flooded the Battery's 17th
century fortress Castle Clinton, now a museum and
entry point for

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Help with "Build It Back" Applications

State Senator Marty Golden is helping the Bloomberg administration get out the word about the "NYC Build It Back Program", offering assistance to homeowners in rebuilding their Sandy-damaged homes and businesses in hard-hit areas like Gerritsen Beach, Manhattan Beach and Sheepshead Bay.

You can download the application here: http://www.nyc.gov/html/recovery/html/home/home.shtml and call or

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