Tag: Brooklyn

Flailing FEMA

Sandy-ravaged communities dealing with cold and lack of housing while FEMA trailers sit idle in PA

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AP

Dozens of residents are still living without heat, hot water, or electricity in condemned structures flooded by both sea and sewer water in the Gerritsen Beach community of Brooklyn after a request to FEMA for temporary housing after Hurricane Sandy was denied.

Brooklyn Dem gets handsy

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Vito Lopez

A prominent Brooklyn Democrat Vito Lopez has been censured, stripped of his committee posts, and barred from employing young people after his colleagues determined he sexually harassed two female employees, the New York Times reports.