Federal inspectors plan to give Brooklyn a second look Friday after initially passing up the borough for federal aid following Irene.
Brooklyn was omitted from the president’s emergency declaration, because assessment teams said they did not see serious damage there.
But now investigators will return to Brooklyn, specifically Coney Island, where the storm made landfall.
Borough President Marty Markowitz was pretty unhappy about the initial decision.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has identified 26 counties that saw “devastating effects” from last weekend’s storm. But six of those counties have not yet been declared disaster zones by the federal government. That list included Brooklyn along with Columbia, Putnam, Orange, Sullivan and Washington counties.
New York City’s other four boroughs are already getting aid.
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