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Foreclosure help starts in Suffolk

A state mobile command center visits Brentwood on

Photo credit: Daniel Brennan | A state mobile command center visits Brentwood on Thursday to begin an initiative to counsel homeowners facing foreclosure. (Feb. 9, 2012)

James Bernstein

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The New York State Department of Financial Services' huge white mobile van rolled into a Pathmark shopping center lot in Brentwood about 7 a.m. Thursday. Aboard were several foreclosure counselors ready to help homeowners in a part of the state hit harder than any other by the mortgage crisis.

By 8:30, 10 people had already visited the van. By 9, the number had grown to more than 20. And the...

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