NY Rising, a community reconstruction program administered by the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery, has finished razing the last of 16 Hurricane Sandy-ravaged properties it purchased in Flanders.
New York State turned the ownership of the properties, located in the Reeve’s Bay watershed, over to Southampton Town, which will maintain the parcels as wetlands and open space.
In mid-December, NY Rising demolished what remained of the house at 206 Sylvan Avenue. The other Flanders addresses that are now cleared are 27, 31, 35, 52, 70, 76 and 92 Pine Avenue, 301 Longneck Boulevard, 141 and 191 Temple Avenue, 287 and 298 Royal Avenue, 186 and 194 Sylvan Avenue, and 35 Fantasy Drive.
Most of the properties were among a list of buyouts that the New York State Homes and Community Renewal agency shared in June 2016. The 11 listed purchases, all made in 2015, ranged in price from $225,000 to $500,000.
The Southampton Town Board voted in February 2016 to accept ownership of all of the properties at no cost from the state.
27east on Dec 29, 2017