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Modular housing helps some rebuild quickly

Originally published: June 15, 2013 8:29 PM
Updated: June 15, 2013 9:15 PM
By TED PHILLIPS ted.phillips@newsday.com

The Seemanns of Long Beach lost their home in superstorm Sandy. In just a few months, Westchester Modular Homes was able to design and build a new modular home that will be livable before Memorial Day. Videojournalist: Howard Schnapp (April 16, 2013) (May 23, 2013 10:15 AM)

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Michael Seemann's eyes locked on the 16,500-pound "box" as a crane lifted it from the back of a truck on a street in Long Beach. The rectangle of wood and windows looked like a piece of a life-size dollhouse with a cutaway revealing a kitchen and living room.

"Crazy fast!" he said from the sidelines as workmen lined up the piece of his new home with concrete walls extending...

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