Blogfinger remembers Sandy which hit on Saturday October 29, 2012-—Today, October 29, 2026, 14 years later, we remember what happened, especially with the 25% damage to the roof of the Great Auditorium
And we now offer a new perspective with a drone image of today’s GA roof as seen from outer space on this 14th anniversary.
Going back to Sandy (2012):
October 30, 2012, 7:45 am. Rear of Great Auditorium. Paul Goldfinger photo . Click once to enlarge.
Great Auditorium roof on the morning of October 30, 2012, one day after Sandy hit. The photo does not show the front side damage. This portion of the roof is on the north side. Paul Goldfinger photo. Blogfinger.net
BF roof story 2016. below
The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association is ready to complete work on the Great Auditorium roof, but they have had daunting problems deciding about which material to use. Their plan had been to obtain zinc coated stainless steel material, but manufacturing challenges have prevented that. JP Gradone, COO of the OGCMA, sent us the comment below in response to a Blogfinger inquiry yesterday.
“Our insurance company has recently agreed to pay for the installation of a temporary EPDM rubber roof on the damaged area while we continue to work closely with the insurance company to find a permanent solution to resolvethe situation with the roofing material. The temporary roof was completed this week and gives the Great Auditorium an excellent short-term solution while we carefully determine the best material for the permanent roof.”
EPDM rubber roofing on the south side. Blogfinger photos
2026 Drone view of the Ocean Grove Great Auditorium, On the 14th anniversary of Sandy today. (10/27/26), we can see the roof in fine condition. Photographer–Contact him with his Instagram handle. @for.shore.edits
And for this article about the GA roof, here is a version of “Stardust,” a song by Hoagy Carmichael, that was performed by Louis Armstrong in the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories which featured the Great Auditorium] as the Stardust Hotel.
In 2015, we present a contemporary jazz version of “Stardust,” an instrumental, by Warren Vaché on trumpet (a Jersey boy,) Derek Watkins, and the Brian Lemon Quartet.
