Amanda Waldroupe

AMANDA WALDROUPE is an award-winning journalist and writer. She is a recent transplant to New York City from her native Portland, Oregon, where she wrote for the Oregonian and a variety of other weeklies and monthlies.

June 2013Local

Sand in Their Shoes Belle Harbor Families Struggle to Return Home

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The families of Beach 130th Street waited out Hurricane Sandy as they did Hurricane Irene, but as an empty oil tank bobbed down the street, their surprise at the storm’s strength mixed with fear and worry.
Fifteen homes in Belle Harbor, many of which lined Beach 130th Street, burned down the night of Hurricane Sandy. Photo by Amanda Waldroupe.

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