by Thomas Altfather Good

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Across Staten Island - our lives are wrapped in yellow caution tape.
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Video Clips (NLN on YouTube)

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Alice Austen House

The stairs leading from Buono Beach to Alice Austen House. During
Hurricane Sandy the storm surge raised the water level to the top step.
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Two trees fell on the southern section of the Austen House picket fence, destroying it.
The branches of the larger tree rested on the roof of the building, doing no damage.
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The nothern edge of the Austen House park, littered with storm surge debris and broken fencing.
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Repairs at Alice Austen House are underway.
Here a worker builds a fence on the east side (seawall) of the park.
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A post hole digger works below the Austen House seawall staircase.
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Building a fence along the seawall...
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Buono Beach, just north of Austen House, was hard hit and is now closed.
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Workers removing debris from the Alice Austen House park.
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Repairing a roof in Rosebank - the neighborhood Austen House is part of.
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Clifton

North of Rosebank, in the Clifton section, a shattered tree is covered with debris.
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A dozer at work on Front Street in Clifton.
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The wreck of the John B. Caddell - a tanker that grounded during the hurricane.
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In New York anything that sits still, gathers graffiti.
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New York humor: "All Ashore"
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The first casualty of Sandy?
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Stapleton

One of many airborne watercraft, now inoperable.
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A taxi comes to a perpendicular end.
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Stapleton

Trash pulled from a flooded building...
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Chase and Citibank in Stapleton were severely damaged.
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Verizon workers had no time off from Halloween through Thanksgiving Day.
And on Black Friday it was back to work.
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St. George

In St. George life slowly returns to normal.
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A month after the storm you cannot walk a block without stepping over downed wires.
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An abandoned home in St. George
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Trash.
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The Brighton Heights Reform Church - wind damage.
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Staten Island Borough Hall
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Found Art.
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South Ferry, Manhattan

Across the harbor, South Ferry train stations were severely damaged.
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(Photo: Thomas Altfather Good / NLN)