The city expects to demolish approximately 200 houses damaged during Hurricane Sandy “in coming weeks and months,” the Buildings Department said yesterday.
Most of those houses are in Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens.
900 buildings citywide have received a red tag, meaning they’re unsafe to enter.
Also yesterday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency admitted to The Post that it was taking too long to cut checks to affected families who made claims for grants of up to $31,900.
“We identified the turnaround was not where we wanted it to be,” said FEMA spokeswoman Hannah Vick. “We identified the problem and took steps to remedy it, essentially a surge of inspectors.”
Before FEMA increased its number of inspectors, homeowners were waiting 10 to 14 days just to get their houses inspected. It’s now at 5.2, officials said.