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12 Years After Sandy, Residents Returning To Rebuilt Mantoloking Oceanfront Community 12 Years After Sandy, Residents Returning To Rebuilt Mantoloking Oceanfront Community
12 Years After Sandy, Residents Returning To Rebuilt Mantoloking Oceanfront Community Dale Parisi's third-generation cottage near the Mantoloking beachfront was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. "It was a very sad day," he said. "We had no idea what the future held for any of us. While some people cashed in their chips, I believed that someday we were going to return and rebuild." Nearly a dozen years later, Parisi moved into his new three-bedroom duplex in the Osborn Dunes at South Mantoloking community. The neighborhood off Route 35 has reopened for some new and returning residents after suffering catastrophic damage from Sandy, developer Walte…