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Date: October 31, 2013
Type: Digital image
Identifier: aql:17497
Description:
A backyard under an overcast sky in the Rockaways, covered with debris after Hurricane Sandy.
Date: October 31, 2012
Type: Digital image
Identifier: aql:16204
Description:
A boarded up gift store at 116th Street in the Rockaways, two days after Hurricane Sandy.
Date: October 31, 2012
Type: Digital image
Identifier: aql:16212
Description:
Many homes and cars were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. Fire and water caused much of the damage.
Date: October 31, 2012
Type: Digital image
Identifier: aql:17502
Description:
On the second day after Sandy hit, only debris is left in the back yard of a resident's home, along with a burnt brick chimney and a drive way filled with two burnt and oxidized car frames.
Date: October 31, 2012
Type: Digital image
Identifier: aql:17492
Description:
The Rockaways were damaged by Hurricane Sandy but survived after the storm passed. The street sign stands a a symbol of the resiliance of residents and homes that weathered the storm. [From Adam: I co
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Date: October 31, 2012
Type: Digital image
Identifier: aql:17506
Description:
In the aftermath of the storm, burned and rusted cars, druined household items and garbage collected in one lot behind the Harbor Light Pub.
Date: October 31, 2012
Type: Digital image
Identifier: aql:17494
Description:
A row of burned and rusted out card frames marked off by a strip of police tape.
Date: January 2, 2013
Type: Digital image
Identifier: aql:16206
Description:
Post Sandy, the clean up from the hurricane had the residents and businesses putting the garbage in big piles in the Jacob Riis park recreation area.
Date: December 20, 2013
Type: Digital image
Identifier: aql:17491
Description:
The remains of the American flag still waving near an abandoned warehouse in Fort Tilden.
Date: January, 2013
Type: Digital image
Identifier: aql:17495
Description:
As part of Hurricane Sandy restoration, construction workers dumped sand to raise the land higher than the water.
Date: November, 2012
Type: Digital image
Identifier: aql:16201
Description:
Houses on the beach front were ideal places to live before Hurricane Sandy came and destroyed the homes.
Date: December, 2012
Type: Digital image
Identifier: aql:17501
Description:
After the storm passed a lot of sand was distributed over more that just the beach front so the people placed the sand in dunes. The view is from inland toward the beach front.
Date: November, 2012
Type: Digital image
Identifier: aql:16208
Description:
During Hurricane Sandy, a truck was slammed into a house. The house was knocked off its foundation.
Date: December 1, 2012
Type: Digital image
Identifier: aql:16211
Description:
Two houses damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
Date: November 1, 2012
Type: Digital image
Identifier: aql:16213
Description:
Electrical lines blew out and started fires that destroyed businesses on Rockaway Beach Blvd and 116th Street during Hurricane Sandy.