A year After Superstorm Sandy, Federal Aid Trickles in

In this Oct. 13, 2013 photo, people walk along the rebuilt boardwalk in Seaside Heights, N.J. A year ago the boardwalk was destroyed and the area was inundated by sand in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.

In this combination of Nov. 5, 2012 and Oct. 21, 2013 photos, Rockaway resident Christine Walker walks along the beach under what is left of the boardwalk in the wake of Superstorm Sandy in the borough of Queens, New York and the same site nearly one year later.

This combination of Nov. 14, 2012 and Oct. 17, 2013 photos shows construction equipment working on debris collected during the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy in the parking lot of Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaway section of New York.

Larry Racioppo, a retired photographer for New York City's Housing and Preservation Department, displays his personal diary and photo album at his home in the Belle Harbor section of Queens, Oct. 15, 2013, in New York.

Photographer Larry Racioppo's album is part of "Rising Waters," an exhibit of 200 photographs taken after Superstorm Sandy in New York, Long Island and New Jersey. The pictures were culled from among 10,000 submissions from the public.

Pieces of an oceanfront home destroyed by Superstorm Sandy are scattered next to an existing home in Mantoloking N.J., Oct. 15, 2013.

This combination of Nov. 22, 2012 and Oct. 13, 2013 photos shows debris left by Superstorm Sandy where the boardwalk had been in front of Lucky Leo's arcade in Seaside Heights, N.J. and the bottom photo shows people walking near Lucky Leo's one year later.

People line up along the beach in the Belle Harbor section of the Rockways during the "Rockaway Rising: Hands Across the Sand," beachside ceremony commemorating the one year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, Oct. 27, 2013, in New York.