Tom Duffy, who has lived in Breezy Point for the past 23 years, searches the rubble of his home for salvageable items. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
The boardwalk in Rockaway was shifted by the stormsurge. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
A police car drives down Rockaway Beach Boulevard, where power and street lights were out for days following Hurricane Sandy. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
Ronald Adams shows the cracked concrete basement of his home in Rockaway. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
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Phones are charged at a station outside the Hammel Houses. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
John Martin stands in the doorway of his Breezy Point home in the Hurricane Sandy aftermath. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
A pedestrian walks along Rockaway Beach Boulevard near Beach 114th Street as headlights illuminate the darkened roadway. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
Gus Zervas adjusts the curtains in his Meadowmere home about a week after Hurricane Sandy. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
A piano is among items left out for garbage pickup in Rockaway after the storm. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
Six months after Sandy, Mike Lobody Jr. still has no idea when he will return to his Broad Channel home. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
Mateel Welcome, 11, jumps over a large puddle including sewage that are overflowed into the streets following Hurridane Sandy. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
Jeinne Reskallah was using cleanser on coins following Hurricane Sandy. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
A massive relief effort was organized at St. Francis De Sales Church. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
Francis Seim adjusts his cap as he looks through belongings in his home at East 10th Raid and Channel Road in Broad Channel. Seim is a member of the Army Reserves and said his uniform was one of the few items of clothing he could salvage. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
Debris inside a car parked in Far Rockaway following Hurricane Sandy. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
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Rockaway Beach near Beach 36th Street in Far Rockaway April 2013. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
Art and Pat Duffy peer into the remnants of their summer home in Breezy Point. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
Howard Beach resident Alex Marchese, 70, surveys his destroyed boat, which floated along with the dock in the Shellbank Basin during Hurricane Sandy. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
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A flag flies in the wind outside a damaged Breezy Point home, one of many ravaged during Hurricane Sandy. Three months later, the neighborhood is beginning to rebuild. Photo for TimesLedger Newspapers
