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The furniture is still wet and the curtains are black with mold in Pura Gonzalo's Far Rockaway home, where the 89-year-old Cuban immigrant says she has throat problems and feels exhausted.
WSJ: 3 months after Sandy, victims waiting for relief
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"We had just finished our first day on the subway, " Mr. Fleischner said of the storm surge that devastated the film's above-ground Rockaway locations, "pretty much demolished" the director's own home and knocked out train service for weeks.
WSJ: The Longest Subway Ride
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While some residents of Staten Island have said they planned to take advantage of government buyouts of their flood-prone properties, most of the city's coastal residents from Breezy Point to Rockaway Beach have indicated they will stay at the shore.
WSJ: Reshaping Shore Homes
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Despite being unsatisfied with the city's response to the damage wrought by Sandy in Far Rockaway, Mr. Fougere said he was voting for Mr. Richards because he was a familiar face around the community.
WSJ: Sandy Shapes Council Race in Rockaways
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His two-story house in the Far Rockaway section of Queens hasn't had working heat since Superstorm Sandy's floodwaters destroyed the oil burner in the basement.
WSJ: 3 months after Sandy, victims waiting for relief
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"Out there" is Breezy Point, the westernmost part of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens, a fish-rich stretch of water that's the unofficial separation of the Atlantic from the harbor of New York.
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