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Two years after Sandy, FEMA aid to hospitals questioned

By NBC New York  
   October 30, 2014

On New York City's First Avenue, two hospitals sit two blocks apart, but the scenes last week could not have been more different. In front of Bellevue Hospital Center, a dozen news vans clogged the street. Reporters jockeyed for position in front of the main entrance. They were gathered to cover the city's response to the region's first confirmed case of Ebola. Just north of the media spectacle, First Avenue was calm. At NYU Medical Center, it was business as usual -- no crowds of journalists, no Ebola patient. The stark comparison raised uncomfortable questions about disparities in the way FEMA has treated the two hospitals in the wake of Sandy.

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