Far Above the Flooding, Yet Still Feeling a Hurricane’s Sting

Coming Back: A View of the Rockaways: A month after Hurricane Sandy, residents of a low-income housing development in Queens are still coping with a loss of power and water shut-offs.  By Sarah Maslin Nir and Emma Cott

The New York Times - By Sarah Maslin Nir - December 7, 2012

Get to higher ground — a warning implicit in calls to evacuate waterside pockets of New York City as Hurricane Sandy bore down. In an apartment on the 19th floor of Building 1 in Ocean Village, a complex of tattered low-income housing in the Arverne section of the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, Luther Houston thought he was doing just that.

Hunkered down on the top floor of the building, there was less need to evacuate, he thought, the roiling ocean visible beyond the window.

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