Many in Coney Island still feel post-storm needs
In a cubicle-like apartment with a 12th floor view of the Atlantic Ocean, the trauma of hurricane Sandy is still fresh.
“Water came through the window up to the chair. FEMA denied our case even though everything we owned was damaged,” says Mabel James, 56, a disabled grandmother of two, describing the after-effects of Hurricane Sandy last October and her ongoing attempts to claim financial aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
James, a Nigerian-American who has lived in Coney Island for 25 years, describes how rain from the storm crashed through the windows, flooding her housing development apartment.