Four public hospitals in flood-prone parts of New York City are getting at least $1.6 billion in federal money to protect them from the kind of damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy, officials announced Thursday. Money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will create a new, storm-resilient building to house the emergency room and such key equipment as X-ray machines at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, where the storm inundated the basement and came into the first floor in 2012. The water plunged the hospital into darkness and sent staff members scrambling to move patients on stretchers to higher floors before ultimately evacuating.
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