Gov. Andrew Cuomo stood in a spot that Hurricane Sandy flooded with eight feet of water as he announced last Sunday that the state would provide $13 million for the installation of both a seawall and …
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Two months after the State Assembly overwhelmingly passed legislation that would allow the city to borrow millions of dollars in serial bonds to cover costs associated with Hurricane Sandy — and …
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Standing just a few feet from an 8-foot-tall pile of debris at the end of Louisiana Street, Cheryl Ives paused for a moment as her neighbors carried large pieces of sheetrock, soggy insulation and …
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“Not a day goes by that someone doesn’t come running up to the E.R. doors for care,” said Dan Hayes, director of nursing for the emergency room and intensive care at the Long Beach Medical …
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“Sorry, we’re closed,” Lindell Deli and Grocery co-owner P.J. Whelan told a potential customer last Friday.
“Everyone is asking us when we’re going to open,” he said, “and I can’t …
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Just weeks after the city held the last of a series of meetings in which it solicited residents’ input on rebuilding the boardwalk, officials unveiled a preliminary design of the structure at …
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When Long Beach resident Kevin Reilly, a civil engineer who lives in the Canals, received his NY Rising award letter recently, he immediately noticed that something was wrong.
Reilly and his …
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Several hundred Oceanside residents — cold, angry and still without power — gathered at School 8 Friday morning to voice, and oftentimes scream, their disapproval of the efforts of the Long Island Power Authority and local politicians in the nearly two weeks since Hurricane Sandy devastated their homes and community.
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County Legislator Denise Ford (R-Long Beach) is calling on Long Beach Medical Center’s Chief Executive Officer Doug Melzer to address the public over the fate of the hospital, which remains closed …
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Hurricane Sandy victims statewide may soon see some much-needed financial relief.
The New York Rising program, tasked with distributing $1.7 billion in federal Sandy aid money allocated to the …
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