For his latest feature in New York Magazine, Marc Jacobson spent time in the Rockaways, where the calendar now counts the days according to a post-Hurricane Sandy timeline. To the west, a 100,000-pound mountain of trash grows in the Jacob Riis parking lot as the burnt homes of Breezy Point are cleaned up, while to the east, local gangs cause anarchy, going door to door claiming to be from the power company. "The brave feats and dramatic destruction of Day One had morphed into soul-numbing process by Day Nine." [NYM]
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