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Montauk Mobilizes For Breezy Point

Publication: The East Hampton Press
By Virginia Garrison   Nov 6, 2012 6:19 PM
Nov 6, 2012 6:50 PM
If Sandy’s path had veered, it could have been Montauk instead of Breezy Point in Queens. Dennis O’Reilly, who now lives in Montauk, was born and raised in Breezy Point, and that’s what he was thinking last week.

“Dennis was literally beside himself when he went up and visited Breezy Point after the storm,” said East Hampton Town Supervisor Bill Wilkinson on Monday. “There he saw the devastation and destruction of 120 homes,” including a photo album belonging to his own family floating in water, Mr. Wilkinson said.

Mr. O’Reilly, along with a troop of Montauk and East Hampton residents, has been organizing caravans of relief supplies to Breezy Point, a community of firefighters and police officers not unlike the hamlet 120 miles away at the other end of Long Island. “If... more

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