Hurricane Sandy relief

A leading regional infrastructure expert expressed relief. “The idea that there's something like half a billion ... The existing tunnels filled with salt water when Hurricane Sandy inundated the region in 2012 and will eventually have to be closed for extensive repairs. All trains running along the busy Northeast ...

New renderings are out for the conversion and expansion of the old church at 120 Java Street, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and YIMBY has the exclusive close-ups. The project is located just three blocks away from the Greenpoint Avenue subway station, serviced by the G trains. The existing structure had ...

The location was used as a relief site during Hurricane Sandy, YIMBY reports. SL Development is taking on the conversion now, with a design from Rawlings Architects. The dramatic upgrade, reuse and expansion will bring apartments averaging 1,300 square feet to Java Street, just a block from the G train ...

During Hurricane Sandy, Hook Creek overflowed, flooding the backyards of many homes in the Mill Brook section of Valley Stream. Five years have passed, but the problem has persisted in the area during storms. “The creek overflowing has impacted a lot of my neighbors,” said John Campbell, a board ...

We got more than $37 billion in federal disaster relief after Sandy. Last year Congress passed a hurricane-relief package that coincidentally also hit $37 billion. But it was for all the hurricanes that hit Texas, Florida, the U.S Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. And then there's the question of using relief funds for ...

Will Weissert, a reporter with the Associated Press, says that the recovery process was in fact quicker on the east Coast following Hurricane Sandy. He says ... In Texas, relief has been administered differently. ... Now the state has launched a relief tracker to bring more transparency to the recovery process.

Authorities said he secured $177,225 in relief funds he wasn't entitled to, including $150,000 from RREM. They allege he falsely claimed to be living at his second home on Spinnaker Drive in the township, damaged by Sandy, but actually lived in Edison. Silva is charged with second-degree theft by ...

Five more New Jersey residents have been charged with defrauding the state and federal government out of Hurricane Sandy relief money by claiming their damaged properties were their primary residences. In all, 109 people have been charged since 2014 with applying for assistance under false ...