Brooklyn Cafe Cleans Up Sandy With Eye on Sandwich Order
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His basement was filled with eight feet of seawater. Thousands of dollars of food and supplies were ruined. And New York City restaurateur Frank Morales felt lucky.
The day after superstorm Sandy slammed into Brooklyn’s trendy Red Hook neighborhood, Morales, 43, got his hands on a water pump and start putting his F&M Cafe & Restaurant back together. As he and a crew of workers removed water and debris yesterday, neighbors and fellow shop owners descended on his restaurant offering him money to let them use the pump.