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.
A beachfront home lays in rubble in Sea Gate, Brooklyn.Connor Adams Sheets / International Business TimesA beachfront building skeleton towers over the streets of Sea Gate, Brooklyn.Connor Adams Sheets / International Business TimesMany homes near the beach in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, sustatined catastrophic damage during Hurricane Sandy.Connor Adams Sheets / International Business TimesA beachfront home in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, was heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy.Connor Adams Sheets / International Business TimesA large pile of rubble sits by the street in Sea Gate, Brooklyn.Connor Adams Sheets / International Business TimesThe beach is littered with debris, including a piece of playground equipment, in Sea Gate, BrooklynConnor Adams Sheets / International Business TimesA house in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, was badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy.Connor Adams Sheets / International Business TimesHouses along the water in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, sustained extensive damage during Hurricane Sandy.Connor Adams SheetsA food distribution coordinated by the Sea Gate Community Association, National Guard and NYPD takes place outside a church in Sea Gate, Brooklyn.Connor Adams Sheets / International Business TimesA beachfront home in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, sustained heavy damage during Hurricane Sandy.Connor Adams Sheets / International Business TimesA pile of rubble and debris has been formed on a traffic median in Sea Gate, Brooklyn.Connor Adams Sheets / International Business Times
