If you drive on some streets in New Dorp, Staten island, Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn or along the Rockaways in Queenswill become clear: hurricane sandy is not forgotten past and the ongoing nightmare for those who lost their homes.
After the storm hit new York, which toppled thousands of buildings, then mayor Michael Bloomberg launched the initiative to Build it Back, promising the victims army of contractors to rebuild housing. But for a year, no house was rebuilt.
When the mayor was bill de Blasio, he’s revised it, simplifying the bureaucratic red tape and accelerate the repairs. It was restored more than 4 million homes, but in this case not so smooth. De Blasio said that the program will be completed by the end of 2016. Already nearing the end of 2017, but it never happened.
As reported АВС7, as of October 23, nearly 1,000 families are waiting for the completion of construction.
«Employees Build it Back not say the exact date of the end of the repair,» says mark Alberts, one of the homeowners, who had left Staten island after the hurricane. «The house is set on piles, but the work is not finished.»
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Program Director Amy Peterson notes that only last year it was renovated and restored 1,700 homes. «What we do for these homeowners is unique. No other program in America does not provide full restoration and reconstruction that the house was able to withstand the hurricanes».
According to the mayor of new York bill de Blasio, all 1,000 of the remaining houses should recover by the spring of 2018.
Recall, superstorm sandy swept through new York exactly five years ago, at the end of October 2012, taking the lives of dozens of people.
