Sandy Homeless Trapped by Forces of Nature, NYC Market
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Lorraine Massoni crawled north on Brooklyn’s Coney Island Avenue in a rented minivan along with her three children, hoping she wouldn’t miss an apartment viewing in her hunt to relocate from a flooded Rockaway home.
“I have reached out to I can’t even tell you how many Realtors,” Massoni, 44, said as traffic slowed beside yet another blocks-long line for gasoline. “They tell you they have places, they say, ‘Let me talk to the landlord and see if they take dogs,’ then nothing. They don’t even call you back.”