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Blankets Batteries and Flashlights at Oracle
Help out. > > Dear Friends of the Oracle, > > We’re collecting batteries, blankets and flashlights at the Oracle Club tonight until 11pm, and tomorrow between 8am-11pm, for those in the Rockaways who’ve been affected by Hurricane Sandy. Please forward this email and spread the words. Thanks! > > The Oracle Club is located [...]
Sandy’s impact
After 9/11, the Partnership for New York City, a business group made up of the city’s largest private-sector employers, commissioned seven consulting firms to calculate the disaster’s economic impact. All together, the loss of life, property, economic activity and revenue, as well as the public cost to the government for cleanup, tallied $83 billion, according [...]
NYC Storm Recovery: Schools Open Monday, Close Election Day
NEW YORK, New York, November 5, 2012 (ENS) – Classes resumed for nearly one million New York public school students Monday as schools opened for the first time since Hurricane Sandy brought the city to a standstill one week ago. About 90 percent of the schools are open, except for eight schools serving as emergency [...]
Voting tomorrow – where to go
Go to this site and type in your address to see where to vote and who is on the ballot http://gis.nyc.gov/vote/ps/index.htm
Climate Change and Sandy’s Impact in the Age of Inequality
One clear lesson in the wake of Hurricane Sandy is that extreme weather in the age of climate change and global warming knows no class, race and privilege boundaries. Many, many communities in the New York metropolitan area need help, but as David Rohde wrote this week in The Atlantic, “Sandy humbled every one of [...]
Climate Change and Sandy’s Impact in the Age of Inequality
One clear lesson in the wake of Hurricane Sandy is that extreme weather in the age of climate change and global warming knows no class, race and privilege boundaries. Many, many communities in the New York metropolitan area need help, but as David Rohde wrote this week in The Atlantic, “Sandy humbled every one of [...]
Two Sensible Decisions: A Call to Race, Then a Call to Cancel
Among the many decisions that Hurricane Sandy forced upon Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, two difficult ones stand out as having been sensible at the time they were made, even if many New Yorkers may not agree. The Day Clyde Haberman offers his take on the news. The first was the call to go ahead with [...]
Two Sensible Decisions: A Call to Race, Then a Call to Cancel
Among the many decisions that Hurricane Sandy forced upon Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, two difficult ones stand out as having been sensible at the time they were made, even if many New Yorkers may not agree. The Day Clyde Haberman offers his take on the news. The first was the call to go ahead with [...]
Backup school: at LIC School of Ballet this week
Day camp for parents who need some coverage today.
As Election Day looms, it’s survival vs. citizenship for storm-hit communities
NEW YORK — As the rest of the nation frets about a nail-biter of a presidential race, this city and its surroundings are still wracked by the effects of Hurricane Sandy nearly a week after its landfall. On Sunday, many New Yorkers and New Jerseyans were occupied by tasks more elemental than preparing to vote: [...]
Two Ways To Ease Gas Station Lines
A New York City police office directs traffic around a gas station as long lines form to buy gas on City Island November 1, 2012 in New York. Residents are still feeling the effects of Hurricane Sandy. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) With power still down in many cities and towns in New York and New [...]