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Stony Point buyouts worry owners of Sandy-damaged homes

Ann Cass and her son Chris, 16, still

Photo credit: Xavier Mascarenas | Ann Cass and her son Chris, 16, still cannot live in their home on River Road in Stony Point. Property owners in some of the hardest-hit areas along the Hudson River are still recovering from superstorm Sandy. (Dec. 22, 2012)

As 69-year-old Carol Van Pelt inhaled heavily through plastic tubes connected to an oxygen tank, her husband of more than four decades sat beside her in their Ba Mar trailer in Stony Point, wondering what would become of the place they have called home for the past 12 years.

The Van Pelt home -- along with 79 others within the Ba Mar trailer park and scattered additional homes along the Hudson...

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