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recovery mode

I’ll Be Home for Christmas? Apartment Listings For Sandy Refugees Are Live

It’s not the holiday homecoming that Hurricane Sandy refugees had dreamed of, but a temporary apartment is a definite upgrade
By Kim Velsey

Here’s Why We Need Our Own Disaster Housing: FEMA Refuses Setting Up Trailers in New York

Recently, The Observer reported on a secret plan the Bloomberg administration has been developing for years now to create a
By Matt Chaban

Bill Rudin Wants to Consider ‘A Variety of Options’ for Protecting the City from the Next Disaster

Earlier today, we ran a post about how Bill Rudin rather pragmatically welcomed the flooding of the Brooklyn Batter Tunnel,
By Matt Chaban
A freak show of another sort. (Getty)

Coney Island Is Still Devastated, From the Boardwalk to the Neighborhood Parks

By Kit Dillon

Shipping Container Living Looks Pretty Nice: Inside NYC’s Secret Disaster Apartments

By Matt Chaban
Sea Box village. (Sea Box)

Home, Sweet Shipping Container: NYC’s Secret Plans for the Perfect Disaster Apartments

By Matt Chaban
The traffic is usually bad enough as it is around Thanksgiving—could gas rationing make it worse? (Getty)

With Busiest Travel Day of the Year Ahead, New York City Gas Rationing Will Continue Through Friday

By Matt Chaban
Should we be living here anymore? (Getty)

‘This Is a Challenge to Our Democracy:’ Kimmelman and Planners on the Tough Choices After Sandy

By Kit Dillon
A Bay Head home

Michael Kimmelman and the AIA Debate New York After Sandy Tonight

By Matt Chaban

Stars in a Storm: Saving Sandy Survivors Is All the Rage

By Charlotte Lytton
Senator Schumer (far left) and Congressman Nadler (far right) at the mouth of a flooded Brooklyn Battery Tunnel—the kind o damage both hope to prevent. (Jay Fine/MTA)

Schumer and Nadler Say Sandy Was Our Wake-Up Call for Better Disaster Infrastructure

By Matt Chaban
A house floated into a field on Staten Island.

Mr. Fix-It: Mayor Bloomberg Launches ‘Rapid Repairs’ Program for Sandy’s Homeless

By Matt Chaban
Secured. (Getty)

Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri: ‘We Knew the Crane Wasn’t Going to Fall’

By Matt Chaban
Let's eat. (EPA)

The Hurricane Sandy Diet: Joe Lhota, Ray Kelly, Janette Sadik-Khan and Other Leaders Share Their Stormy Snacks

By Matt Chaban
Don't forget all the blood donors. (Mayors Office)

Lloyd Blankfein, Big Real Estate, Diane Von Furstenberg, <em>Vogue</em> Among Major Sandy Donors

By Matt Chaban

The Power Is Back On Downtown, But Maybe Not Your Lights and Definitely Not the Subway

By Matt Chaban

Normalcy Returns: Tourists at the Bull, Lines at Shake Shack, the Lights Are on in Zucotti Park

By Matt Chaban
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