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In a first for the New Jersey recovery effort, FEMA has provided a trailer to a New Jersey family on land they already own.
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The latest in a series of tough winter storms brought more flooding and more destruction to New Jersey and Massachusetts shore towns.
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As flood insurance rates get ready to spike sharply upward, buyers and sellers are worried about the consequences.
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A Maryland builder says requirements for downspout sump pits are forcing him to damage tree roots.
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“I cried all the way home,” said Staten Island homeowner Emilya Malkin after encountering New York City Parks Police on the beach near her house. Malkin says police threatened her family with arrest as she strolled with her husband and children.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was quick to embrace FEMA’s new flood plain maps. But not everyone feels the same way.
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Manhattan business leaders are keen to let people know that parts of the island worst hit by Superstorm Sandy are bouncing back.
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Communities on Long Island’s south shore are facing a new problem: with the protective barrier island damaged, tides flood their streets every day.
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Four months after Hurricane Sandy, it’s not just the beach communities in New Jersey to Long Island that are still in rough shape. Parts of Manhattan are also far from recovering.
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A South Carolina blue-ribbon commission working to re-envision the state’s 25-year-old Beachfront Management Act will likely give up on the law’s central notion, a policy of retreat from the shoreline to move development away from the water.