A decade after Sandy, Manhattan’s flood barrier is finally in sight — sort of

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By Jake BittleOct 28, 2022, 10:45 am211 pts
When Superstorm Sandy made landfall on October 29, 2012, it pushed 13 feet of storm surge into New York City’s harbor, sweeping across the Brooklyn and Queens waterfronts and wiping entire neighborhoods off the map in Staten Island. Flooding knocked out power in Lower Manhattan, plunging downtown into…

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