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Robert Combs and his son, Robert Combs Jr., still in dust masks, take a break from mending their home to cast their ballots. This is the younger Combs' first time voting.
Grace Toland, originally from Ireland, lost everything when the Sandy Storm surge destroyed her home. "I have to vote, it's my most important American right." she says.
Lyrixs Ricketts has lived in the Rockaways for the past eight years. His house is ruined. "Young people will make a difference," he says.
John and Marie Howley: "Our house has no front stairs."
“It’s my right to vote,” says Rashford Mendez.
Rockaway resident Marie Masiewicz
Faces of the Voted: The Rockaways, Queens
“People are voting in the dark. There are no lights, there is no heat.”
It was how NPR’s Robert Smith described the situation at the polls early this morning, in the Rockaways, Queens, which is in one of the regions hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy’s wrath. Of the 38 polling stations that had to be relocated in the borough, 23 are here — in tents, outdoors, running on generators, and some without heat at all.
Photojournalist Ben Lowy is covering the aftermath of Sandy — including the struggle to get to today’s polling locations — on assignment for Tumblr with an iPhone camera. He’s spent the last two days in the Rockaways, where thousands of residents remain displaced, and the once-famous five mile boardwalk is in splinters.
Photos, left to right from top:
* Robert Combs and his son, Robert Combs, Jr., still in their dust masks, take a break from mending their home to cast their ballots. This is the younger Combs’ first time voting.
* Grace Toland, originally from Ireland, lost everything when the Sandy Storm surge destroyed her home. “Do you like my hat? I love it,” she says. “I got it from the church since I lost everything else. I sleep in it since I have no heat… I have to vote, it’s my most important American right.”* Lyrixs Ricketts has lived in the Rockaways for the past eight years. His house is ruined. “I believe young people should vote,” he says. “Young people will make a difference.”
* John and Marie Howley make their way to the voting booths. “Our house has no front stairs,” they said.
* “It’s my right to vote,” says Rashford Mendez.
* Rockaway resident Marie Masiewicz
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