SANDY ONE YEAR LATER: It’s still all-hands-on-deck in Gerritsen Beach
BY HEATHER J. CHIN AND JAIME DEJESUS
Gerritsen Beach was one of the hardest hit neighborhoods in Brooklyn, with Superstorm Sandy’s 10-foot storm surge flooding over 90 percent of the neighborhood’s 1,800 or so houses. Now, a year later, some of those houses and their residents are closer to getting back on their feet than others.
“At this point, there is one common denominator: if a house is still incomplete, it is because the homeowner lacks resources,” said Jameson Wells, executive director of the nonprofit Gerritsen Beach Long Term Recovery Project, which has established and maintained partnerships with local and regional relief and recovery organizations.