Handyman Insurance, Sandy’s NY, NJ Damage Totals About $62.8B, NYC Stalled Projects on the Rise and More
Immediately after Super-storm Sandy hit, N.Y. and N.J. officials said damage estimates would be staggering, but now they have tallied preliminary costs showing just how formidable the storm was. The combined total damage estimate for both states is about $62.8 billion, according to official reports.
In addition number of stalled construction sites in New York City has risen 17% to 691 from February to November, “erasing virtually all of the progress made in the prior 15 months,” according to a recent New York Building Congress (NYBC) analysis of New York City Dept. of Buildings (DOB) inspection records. Some 26% of the stalled projects were added to the list this year, NYBC says.