Tracking the toll of a disaster like Superstorm Sandy is not like keeping score at a baseball game. Its damage to lives and property may never be known precisely, and there are multiple ways to tally it. In the case …
Superstorm Sandy punished low-income people in New York and New Jersey, especially renters who are now at risk of being unable to find new homes, according to a pair of studies released on Wednesday said. Forty-three percent of the 518,000 …
New York City is beginning a $15 million program to clean up at least 2,000 homes that became contaminated with mold after they flooded during Superstorm Sandy.The program, paid for with private donations, comes following months of desperate pleas from …
Capt. Harold “Smitty” Smith couldn’t believe it — they were everywhere, hundreds of them.Stacked in piles by the dozen. Leaning against homes and on top of cars. Peeking out from murky waters and marshes up and down the New Jersey …
A national insurance association is applauding New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s decision to adopt new advisory flood maps issued last month by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and implement more stringent rebuilding guidelines for flood zones. “The Property Casualty Insurer …
