Hwanggumpyong is a sandy island at the mouth of the Yalu river that divides North Korea from China.
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While some homeowners and advocates have complained the "Rapid Repairs" program got off to a slow start, Bloomberg and residents of a Sandy-ravaged island heralded it Friday as a first-time initiative that helped about 54, 000 get back home.
The future for three other schools remains up in the air, including two on superstorm Sandy-ravaged Staten Island that need extra time to assess their needs.
Separation is the new reality for the Gatti family, a clan of several generations that shared the same three-story home near the ocean on Staten Island until Sandy destroyed it.
The black, brackish water from Superstorm Sandy that filled her Long Island house has receded.
One of the most criticized actors during and after Sandy the Long Island Power Authority was set to play a different role in the blizzard.
Officials at the New York Aquarium, which was damaged by superstorm Sandy, said the Coney Island institution would reopen in late spring, when a new sea-lion demonstration also will have its debut.
Schneiderman told The Associated Press that the action is part of his continuing investigation into claims of jacking up gas prices in New York City, its suburbs and on Long Island immediately after Sandy slammed the region last fall.
Sturgeon Lake at the north end of the island has a sandy beach for swimming and it joins with the waterways of Steelman and Mud Lakes, making it an ideal spot for more experienced kayakers who are looking for a challenge.
As Long Island residents try to cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, many are upset and angry over the way Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) handled the restoration of power around their neighborhoods especially those who continue to be without power thirteen days later.
Mr. Trivelli, a 64-year-old retired Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker, said he had been staying in hotels paid for by FEMA since Sandy destroyed his house in Staten Island's Tottenville neighborhood.
Sarsour's 14-year-old son, Tamir, has been using a photo of him posing with Aboushi, when the offensive lineman helped Staten Island victims of Superstorm Sandy in December, as his Facebook profile picture.
On Wednesday, Steve Bellone, the Suffolk County executive, blamed the breach Sandy cut in an eastern Fire Island preserve, the Otis Pike Fire Island High Dunes Wilderness, for making the bay more volatile.
It was not good news in portions of New York and New Jersey, where homes destroyed by Superstorm Sandy in places such as Staten Island and Far Rockaway, Queens, lacked basic utilities needed to restore heat.
The Staten Island neighborhoods hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy dodged another round of flooding.
Many residents in the western part of the island remain without telephone service since Sandy, because saltwater destroyed copper cables buried underground.
Nevertheless, in coastal areas of Queens and Long Island, not nearly recovered yet from Sandy, memories were easily stirred.
And not long before that, he had volunteered to go to Long Island to help those suffering after Superstorm Sandy, New York Lt.
Members of the People's Coalition of Coney Island, a community organization formed after Sandy, and other groups demonstrated opposite Luna Park with placards and leaflets calling for more assistance.
During summer weekends and on holidays (particularly over New Year's Eve in January and Carnaval in February or early March) a mix of Brazilian and Argentine sunseekers -- and a handful of international visitors -- pack the sandy streets, overwhelming the calm that pervades the island for the rest of the year.
"Help The Babies Affected By Hurricane Sandy" is collecting supplies for affected families in Long Island.
The piping plover is protected in many Atlantic Coast states, but the issue on Fire Island is particularly acute in the aftermath of Sandy.
Photographer Limor Garfinkle walked through the hard-hit coastal Staten Island neighborhood of South Beach the weekend after Sandy made landfall, wondering how she could help.
Still, the prospect frightened Eddie Malone, a resident of Lindenhurst on Long Island whose house has been under renovation since Sandy's flooding wiped out his first floor.
The agency's commissioner, Ronald Richter, said the funds will be used to repair 12 child-care centers in areas including Staten Island, Coney Island and the Rockaways that were damaged by Sandy.
The neighborhood, right by the Long Island Sound, was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy but residents have done a remarkable job of clean-up and now decorating for the Christmas season.
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National Grid, which took over storm preparations from the Long Island Power Authority after LIPA was lambasted for its Sandy problems, did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Nor did he speculate how many more bodies might lie in the sandy scrubland behind the beach on the south shore of Long Island, just east of the New York City border.
New York (CNN) -- The National Park Service announced that there is no projected reopening date for New York's iconic Ellis Island due to extensive damage it sustained during Superstorm Sandy last October.
They focus instead on the island's 100km (60 miles) of sandy, mostly undeveloped, shoreline, hoping it has the same pulling power as the beaches of Hainan, a (much larger) tropical island off the southern coast that has become the playground of China's rich.
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