Behind the Scenes: Checking Out Sandy Recovery Work At Ocean Bay-Oceanside

On March 22, NYCHA staff gave NY1 a tour of Ocean Bay-Oceanside in the Rockaways to show how much progress has been made on Sandy recovery work at the development. Ocean Bay-Oceanside, home to more than 400 families, was hard hit by Superstorm Sandy and is one of more than 30 developments the Authority plans to build back stronger as part of its Sandy Recovery to Resiliency Program.

The tour included a visit to one of the development’s roofs; roofs of all seven buildings that make up Ocean Bay-Oceanside were replaced and now have steel dunnage that will hold stand-by generators to provide full back-up power. The generators will arrive in June for installation. In addition to new roofs, the development is receiving new electrical, mechanical, and plumbing systems that were damaged in the storm, new site lighting, flood proofing, upgraded playgrounds, as well as a full renovation of its senior center. NYCHA expects to complete the project at Ocean Bay-Oceanside by the end of the year.

Recovery work at Ocean Bay-Oceanside is funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In 2015, NYCHA received almost $3 billion in FEMA funding—the largest single
FEMA grant to be awarded in history. 

For updates about NYCHA’s Sandy Recovery to Resiliency work, visit on.nyc.gov/nycha-sandy.