A Rocky Point homeowner is asking the government to step in and save her home because the cliff in front of the house is being washed away with every rainstorm.
Yan Cheung’s dream home is once again in danger after a rainstorm washed parts of her retaining wall and property off a cliff on Sunday evening, the second time this year that this has happened.
“It’s not right that I live in fear,” Cheung said. “This will keep happening and this is just the beginning.”
In April, part of the cliff collapsed after a storm brought heavy rains, taking away part of the road in front of her house. One of her neighbors paid to build a retaining wall on part of the collapsed cliff and had drainage installed on the remaining part of her road to divert the water.
“I thought that was it, it was going to take another five, 10 years. And then, guess what? A few months later, the second storm came and now we’re back to square one,” Cheung said.
She worries about what might fall off that cliff next during the next storm if she doesn’t get immediate help from the government.
“No one from a private association or from the property ownership community could afford this,” she said.
Their neighbor Nicholas Colonna lives just around the corner from Cheung. He says that not only they, but other neighbors whose homes were damaged after rainstorms need help quickly.
“We need help from something bigger than what we have received,” he said.
Cheung has a message for government officials as more and more of their property is on the verge of falling off a cliff.
“I am asking the federal government, the state government and the city to step in to help the residents of the North Shore,” she said.
A Brookhaven spokesman said building inspectors and crews were deployed in all affected areas of the city and urged residents to report damage by calling 631-451-TOWN.
News 12 has also reached out to the Army Corps of Engineers and is awaiting a response.
