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A Coney Island Star is Reborn
Friday, June 7th, 2013Seven months after Hurricane Sandy, the Lola Star Boutique in Coney Island is back in business, to the relief of owner Lola Star, and the delight of customers who helped rebuild the shop.
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A NEW STAR-T: Lola Star's Coney Island boutique is back open, seven months after Sandy ravaged the popular shop.
Girl’s ‘Silver Lining’ to Storm
Thursday, May 30th, 2013When Ariel Creamer, 14, gets home from school, her mother sets a timer for 30 minutes. This is Ariel’s time to go on Facebook before she starts her homework. But she’s doing a lot more than posting party photos or chatting with friends.
Ariel lives in Rockaway, Queens, a neighborhood hit hard by Superstorm Sandy last October. After evacuating with her family, she returned to find friends and neighbors who had lost everything. Ariel decided to help.
She created “Survivors Silver Lining,” which connects people in need from her neighborhood to donors from around the country. Since February, Ariel has helped more than 50 people get their things back.
Ariel was recently named a “Champion of Change,” and invited to the White House to share her story with other volunteer leaders and discuss the power of social media. She was the youngest one there.
Post-Sandy Pipeline Concerns
Thursday, May 30th, 2013The company seeking to run a gas pipeline under Floyd Bennett Field and build a meter and regulating station in a historic airplane hangar there commissioned a report that found a .2 percent chance the planned facility would be flooded, even amid rising sea levels.
The Williams Transco pipeline company’s report came in response to an April 4 letter from the New York Department of State seeking reassurance that the station couldn’t be breeched after the Federal Emergency Management Agency updated its flood maps, post-Hurricane Sandy.
“Infrastructure in general was severely impacted by Sandy and NYDOS would not be adequately addressing coastal policies if we did not try to ensure that new infrastructure projects were able to withstand coastal impacts, including flooding,” Laz Benitez, an NYDOS spokesman said in an email.
