Staten Island—The Forgotten Struggle
By SHAWN MOYNIHAN
Adriann Conigatti is angry.
A Staten Island resident and mother of three, she's a sharp, middle-class working woman in her early 40s who, along with her husband Rob, now finds herself in a tight spot one year after Superstorm Sandy. Not unlike many residents of Richmond County, she feels that the insurance industry has failed her.
The night Sandy swept through Staten Island dealing an unprecedented level of destruction, the Conigatti family hunkered down on the second floor of their house on Seaver Avenue about a mile from the water's edge of the Atlantic Ocean. The approaching storm surge of water, wrought by winds that reached speeds of 85 mph, “looked like a little tsunami, it was coming and taking cars in seconds,” she recalls. “It just tossed them around.”
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Shawn Moynihan
Shawn Moynihan is Editor-in-Chief of National Underwriter Property & Casualty. A St. John’s University alum, Moynihan has earned 11 Jesse H. Neal Awards, the Pulitzers of the business press; seven Azbee Awards, from the American Society of Business Press Editors; two Folio Awards; and a SABEW award, from the Society of American Business Editors & Writers. Prior to joining ALM, he served as Managing Editor/Online Editor of journalism institution Editor & Publisher, the trade bible of the newspaper industry. Moynihan also has held editorial positions with AOL, Metro New York, and Newhouse Newspapers. He can be reached at [email protected].
