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At Great Gull Island in the Long Island Sound, sustained winds reached 75 mph (121 km/h) while Sandy was still a tropical cyclone. Wind gusts reached 95 mph (153 km/h) at Eatons Neck along the northern coast of Long Island. [5] Hurricane-force gusts occurred throughout the New York metropolitan area and along Long Island. [30]
In 2005, the Ocean Parkway – along with several other Long Island parkways – was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of a historic district, known as the Jones Beach State Park, Causeway and Parkway System. [11] The eastbound direction of the parkway was significantly damaged by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012.
[31] [32] Metro-North Railroad service was suspended on the New Haven, Hudson and Harlem lines, [33] [34] and the Long Island Rail Road experienced suspensions on the Far Rockaway Branch and Long Beach Branch. [35] A terminal at LaGuardia Airport was shut down due to flooding, while a ground stop was imposed at the airport. [36]
By AOL Real Estate and The Associated Press Flooding from Hurricane Sandy's storm surge may cause $90 billion in damage to nearly 300,000 properties in the superstorm's path, says the analytics ...
Hurricane Sandy (unofficially referred to as Superstorm Sandy) [1] [2] was an extremely large and devastating tropical cyclone which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in late October 2012. It was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds ...
In Long Island, a flash flood emergency was declared Sunday evening for Suffolk County, and expired early Monday. The National Weather Service office in New York reported that locally over 10 ...
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Because of the immense lengths of the New York Bight and Atlantic shorelines (Montauk Point, N.Y. to Cape May, N.J.), research has shown that ocean water displaced by the barrier system would only increase coastal surges adjacent to the barrier by a few inches on the ocean and western Long Island Sound sides. [52] While ocean shore communities ...