caption: People walk to the beach in Breezy Point in July. City officials cite a number of factors that have affected the pace of rebuilding in the Wedge, including the time it took to determine home values and because the many of neighborhood's signature beach bungalows and cottages, some built decades ago, were not up to current building codes.
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "FILE - In this July 6, 2013 file photo, people walk to the beach in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York, past the cleared site where 111 homes burned to the ground during Superstorm Sandy the night of Oct. 29, 2012. About 350 of the nearly 3,000 homes in Breezy Point were wrecked beyond repair from flood or fire during the storm. But while many of the flooded homes began repairs months ago, the people who once lived in the fire zone are stuck in no-man\u2019s land. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)", "Image Artist": "Mark Lennihan"}