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Anger Remains Over Pace of New Jersey’s Sandy Recovery

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Wayne Parry - ASSOCIATED PRESS - TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) More than two years after Superstorm Sandy hit the Jersey Shore, many residents remain angry and frustrated at the pace of recovery.During a public hearing Jan. 6 on the state’s plans to use the final $502 million in federal storm recovery aid, many homeowners s...

Crews Uncover 19th Century Shipwreck Buried in N.J. Beach

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Erik Larsen - Asbury Park Press - BRICK, N.J. (AP) Work on a coastal steel wall to protect one of the areas hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy has come to a standstill after the discovery of a 19th-century shipwreck about 25 ft. underneath the sand.Mayor John G. Ducey said workers using a specialized drill struck the relic. T...

Sandy: Two Years Later

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Wayne Parry - ASSOCIATED PRESS - NEW YORK (AP) After Superstorm Sandy, officials in New York and New Jersey vowed to make sure the unprecedented destruction wouldn’t happen again.Two years later, would it?There are some concrete signs of tougher protections, from a nearly-finished sea wall prote...

Critics Want More Details on Sandy Recovery Project Spending in N.J.

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Geoff MulvIhill - ASSOCIATED PRESS - TRENTON, N.J. (AP) New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney said newly released reports on the state’s biggest Superstorm Sandy recovery projects are not detailed enough.Gov. Chris Christie’s administration released its first integrity monitor reports recently, more than 16 m...

’Build it Back’ Program Fails to Rebuild Damaged Homes

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Meghan Barr - ASSOCIATED PRESS - NEW YORK (AP) A year and a half after Superstorm Sandy decimated New York City’s coastline, a city-run program that was supposed to rebuild wrecked homes has only begun construction on three houses, and officials say they will need another $1 billion from the federal government in order ...

Iconic Jet Star Razed

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Wayne Parry - ASSOCIATED PRESS - SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) When Superstorm Sandy hit this past October, it was the Jet Star roller coaster itself that plunged into the waves off the amusement pier where it had been anchored for decades.Work crews began tearing down the remains of the roller coaster and placing the...

Mantoloking Begins Demolishing First of 50 Sandy-Damaged Homes on Land

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Wayne Parry - ASSOCIATED PRESS - MANTOLOKING, N.J. (AP) Cranes and bulldozers have joined seagulls and surf as the new sounds of summer in the Jersey shore town that was the hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy. Workers have started demolishing the first of 50 storm-damaged homes in Mantoloking, where all 521 houses were eithe...

L.I. Contractor Brings Fire Island Back From the Brink

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Giles Lambertson - Last October, three days before Superstorm Sandy reached New York’s Fire Island, Matt Frabizio happily rode a surfboard on wind-pummeled ocean waters. Three days after the massive storm made its calamitous landfall on the 30-mi.-long island, Fabrizio went to work helping put the island̵...

State DEP: Bay Head Homeowners Can Build Seawall

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CEG - BAY HEAD, N.J. (AP) State environmental officials are allowing homeowners to build a stone seawall in front of 15 oceanfront properties in a Jersey Shore community ravaged by Superstorm Sandy. The Asbury Park Press reported the Bay Head homeowners plan to build a 1,300-ft.-long revetment, ...

Seaport Remains Deserted Months After Sandy Hit

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Meghan Barr - ASSOCIATED PRESS - NEW YORK (AP) The historic cobblestone streets and 19th-century mercantile buildings near the water’s edge in lower Manhattan are eerily deserted, a neighborhood silenced by Superstorm Sandy. Just blocks from the tall-masted ships that rise above South Street Seaport, the windows of ...