Category Archives: 9/11 Community Supports Sandy’s Victims

WTC site in flood zone

By Kimberly | Published: February 27, 2013

By David Seifman New York Post The entire World Trade Center complex is now officially in a flood zone, federal officials revealed yesterday. FEMA released its new preliminary flood maps for lower Manhattan — and every square foot of the massive reconstruction site was included, from West Street all the way inland to Church Street. [...]

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World Trade Center classified as flood danger zone in new FEMA maps released after Hurricane Sandy

By Kimberly | Published: February 27, 2013
Parts of lower Manhattan now included in flood map distributed by FEMA. FEMA

By Erin Durkin New York Daily News Owners of properties will have to be forced to elevate their buildings or face skyrocketing insurance premiums. A Port Authority spokesman said the WTC was designed above the flood plain. The World Trade Center site has been classified as a danger flood zone, though Port Authority says it [...]

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South Street seaport a ‘ghost town’ months after Sandy

By Kimberly | Published: February 25, 2013
Post Sandy Brookstone

Associated Press NEW YORK – The historic cobblestone streets and 19th-century mercantile buildings near the water’s edge in lower Manhattan are eerily deserted, a neighborhood silenced by Superstorm Sandy. Just blocks from the tall-masted ships that rise above South Street Seaport, the windows of narrow brick apartment buildings are still crisscrossed with masking tape left [...]

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