Staten Islanders Call on Cuomo to Buy Out Sandy-Wrecked Homes

DISASTER: Staten Island homes like this one in Oakwood would be eligible for buyouts.  Reuters

nypost.com - Gerry Shields - February 5, 2013

ALBANY — They want to flee Mother Nature’s wrath on Staten Island — but not in Long Beach.

Residents in the Oakwood Beach and Fox Beach sections of Staten Island overwhelmingly want a buyout Gov. Cuomo is proposing for victims of superstorm Sandy, the island’s state senators said yesterday.

But residents of hard-hit Long Beach want to stay put, according to their assemblyman, Harvey Weisenberg.

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