Sen. Charles Schumer, left, and Billy Crystal, right, are apparent in Long Beach on Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, area they asked for $2.5 amateur in government aid to alter 2,500 copse asleep by superstorm Sandy. (Credit: Howard Schnapp)
Sen. Charles Schumer, left, and Billy Crystal, right, are apparent in Long Beach on Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, area they asked for $2.5 amateur in government aid to alter 2,500 copse asleep by superstorm Sandy. (Credit: Howard Schnapp)
Long Beach built-in and amateur Billy Crystal and Sen. Charles Schumer addled for Long Beach on Monday, allurement for $2.5 amateur in government aid to alter 2,500 copse asleep by superstorm Sandy.
Schumer alleged on the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to ability an acceding in the abutting ages to armamentarium the city's backup of copse on...
Long Beach built-in and amateur Billy Crystal and Sen. Charles Schumer addled for Long Beach on Monday, allurement for $2.5 amateur in government aid to alter 2,500 copse asleep by superstorm Sandy.
Schumer alleged on the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to ability an acceding in the abutting ages to armamentarium the city's backup of copse on accessible acreage and thoroughfares.
He aggregate with Crystal and the Long Beach Burghal Council on East Chester Street, a adjacency area the storm larboard the artery arid of best trees.
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Crystal, who lived in Long Beach for 25 years until 1976, said the copse beyond from his adolescence home on Park Avenue -- area he abstruse to comedy baseball -- are gone.
"The kids actuality charge copse and you can't leave stumps," Crystal said. "I buried my roots here. Everything happened actuality area I grew up and fell in love. We charge this. This isn't aloof a beautification project."
The floodwaters of Sandy asleep about bisected of the copse in the city, abrogation 45 percent of copse dying or decayed. The Long Beach Burghal Council afresh accustomed a activity to abolish burghal copse beneath a 200-point analysis by arborists. The backup activity does not awning asleep copse on clandestine property.
Schumer said the burghal cannot allow the $2.5-million amount out of its anniversary $81-million budget. He said FEMA gave $1.6 amateur to alter copse in Florida afterwards Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and additionally replaced copse in New Orleans afterwards Hurricane Gustav in 2008.
FEMA has agreed to awning the abatement of the trees, but has not agreed to alter them with complete trees. FEMA and HUD accept disagreed area the allotment should arise, Schumer said.
"The basal band is we charge some advice from Washington. Long Beach will not be able to alter these copse after some federal reimbursement," Schumer said. "It's actual important for Long Beach to complete this assignment after breaking the bank."
Title : Billy Crystal goes to bat for hometown Long Beach, advancement admiral to pay for new trees
Description : Sen. Charles Schumer, left, and Billy Crystal, right, are apparent in Long Beach on Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, area they asked for $2.5 ama...