On July fifteenth,nineteen thirty-three, Post took off from Floyd Bennett Field in New York.
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More than fifty thousand people waited at Floyd Bennett Field.
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Just before the bridge to the peninsula, at least two-dozen cars filled with recovery workers lined up at the turn-off to FloydBennett Field, the nerve center of the relief efforts.
New York is nowhere close to full strength, and badly in need of assistance by Friday, those shots of flooded avenues and coastal damage had given way to federal authorities and the National Guard staging trucks at FloydBennett Field.