New York City Will Demolish Hundreds of Storm-Hit Homes
About 200 homes in the neighborhoods hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy will be
razed after a grim assessment of the storm-ravaged coast revealed that many
structures were so damaged they pose a danger, the reporter William K. Rashbaum
writes in Sunday’s New York Times.
The homes will be bulldozed in the coming days, city officials said, almost all
of them one- and two-family houses on Staten Island, in Queens and in Brooklyn.
That is in addition to 200 houses that are already partially or completely
burned down, washed away or otherwise damaged; those sites will also be cleared.
In addition, the Buildings Department is still inspecting nearly 500 other
damaged structures, some of which could also be demolished, according to the
commissioner, Robert L. LiMandri.
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