Rebuilding After Sandy in Breezy Point

New construction is rising in Breezy Point, the Rockaway beach community totally devastated by Hurricane Sandy. The storm left around 350 of 2,800 homes completely destroyed and the rest badly damaged. But the New York Daily News reports that construction’s started on about half a dozen new homes, with The Breezy Point Cooperative currently looking through 70 building plans from residents. (This is in contrast to the New York Times’ assertion just last week that reconstruction has started on only one home thus far.) The News profiles a family who replaced their destroyed house with a modular build on top of an eight-foot high concrete base. The modular homes take five days to build and two weeks to assemble. So far about 60 percent of the community has returned — turns out many Breezy residents faced holdups securing building permits because their houses were not on city-mapped streets.

First New Breezy Point Homes Are Starting to Rise After Superstorm Sandy [NY Daily News]
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