Hurricane Sandy hit the seaside community of Sea Gate, Brooklyn, with savage fury, destroying homes and people's lives as its storm surge inundated the New York City neighborhood with as much as 17 feet of floodwater the evening of Oct. 29. This gallery shows the sad shape the neighborhood is still in as of Tuesday, Nov. 13, more than two weeks after Sandy made landfall.
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A beachfront home lays in rubble in Sea Gate, Brooklyn.
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A beachfront building skeleton towers over the streets of Sea Gate, Brooklyn.
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Many homes near the beach in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, sustatined catastrophic damage during Hurricane Sandy.
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A beachfront home in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, was heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
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A large pile of rubble sits by the street in Sea Gate, Brooklyn.
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The beach is littered with debris, including a piece of playground equipment, in Sea Gate, Brooklyn
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A house in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, was badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
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Houses along the water in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, sustained extensive damage during Hurricane Sandy.
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A food distribution coordinated by the Sea Gate Community Association, National Guard and NYPD takes place outside a church in Sea Gate, Brooklyn.
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A beachfront home in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, sustained heavy damage during Hurricane Sandy.
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A pile of rubble and debris has been formed on a traffic median in Sea Gate, Brooklyn.
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