For Public Housing Residents After Sandy, 'A Slow-Motion Katrina'

Image: Public housing in Brooklyn faces difficulties after Hurricane Sandy.

huffingtonpost.com - November 9th, 2012 - Lucas Kavner

Ask anyone living in Cobble Hill or Carroll Gardens or Park Slope earlier this week, and they would tell you that they have power, hot water and Wi-Fi. In fact, most of the $1 million-plus townhouses and local businesses in Brooklyn's wealthier neighborhoods never lost any basic necessities, even during the worst of the storm.

But the Gowanus Houses, a low-income public housing complex owned and operated by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) which falls almost at the intersection of those three neighborhoods, is an exception.

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