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Relief efforts came late to Coney Island’s West End, much of it provided by local church groups and grassroots organizers. “No one was out there saying, ‘Look at the Cyclone, it’s sheared in half,’” noted Occupy Sandy organizer Eric Moed of the lesser damage to the amusement district. “Then once you start canvassing the buildings and seeing the residents, it’s deplorable.”