Mayor Bill de Blasio marked the third anniversary of Hurricane Sandy today with a visit to Staten Island’s south shore. Appearing in front of a home rebuilt by the Build It Back program, de Blasio lauded the progress in Build It Back during his administration. He announced that the program is to be completed by the end of 2016 and detailed the evolution in the program from the time he took office. Among the statistics he cited were “2,015 construction starts (including 1,217 construction completions), as well as 5,319 reimbursement checks totaling nearly $104 million”, while noting that each of these categories was at zero when he took office.
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