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On the second floor of a Housing Authority building in Coney Island’s West End, seawater still stands on a second-floor hallway a week after Hurricane Sandy. Years later, as repairs still lagged, tenant leader Steve St. Bernard remarked: “Once you hit 23rd Street, where everything is still messed up? We call it the dark side.”