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Restorers Flooded With Damaged Works, Michigan Votes No on Public Art, and …
— Queens Restorers Receive Chelsea’s Sandy-Soaked Masterpieces: Over the weekend more than 300 artworks from Chelsea galleries were delivered to Long Island City’s Gloria Velandia Art Conservation — whose clients in the past have included the likes of Pace, Gagosian, Gladstone, and David Zwirner — where its staff was tasked with saving pieces by Andy Warhol, […]
Cuomo orders locals to clear debris before storm
ISLAND PARK, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is ordering local governments to clean up massive debris piles caused by Superstorm Sandy before a second storm hits. Cuomo issued an executive order declaring the debris a health hazard and instructing officials in New York City, Long Island and northern suburbs to clean it […]
Utility workers have the power on Long Island – Penn Yan Chronicle
The Yates County area dodged the brunt of Superstorm Sandy last week, but utility workers and volunteers from the area have begun to respond to the New York City and Long Island areas that have sustained severe damage from the storm.Two days after the storm hit, Penn Yan Municipal Utility workers Jef Bodine, Mike Mullins […]
People wait in long lines across the country to vote
Long lines were expected at polling places in Sandy-torn areas of New York City and the Jersey Shore. But the surprise this year has been long lines across the country. Politico reported that in Miami, Fla., some voters reported waiting up to 7 hours to cast their ballots. In Pennsylvania, some voters in Allegheny and […]
Redistricting and Broken Machines Frustrate Hunters Point Voters
HUNTERS POINT — Voters waited in long lines at polling sites in Hunters Point on Tuesday, and many said they were confused about where they were supposed to cast their votes. Some residents discovered — only after waiting for a long time at one site — that they had been assigned a different polling site for […]
Frustrated Brooklynites sign petition as L and G trains remain suspended
Although the city’s subways are almost entirely back up and running and most New Yorkers have returned to their regular daily commutes, thousands of people who rely heavily on the L and G trains are still stranded without service in the wake of hurricane Sandy. Frustration among riders who live along those subway lines has […]
It’s In Queens! (Nov. 8 through Nov. 14)
Last week, Hurricane Sandy whacked The Noguchi Museum, located near the East River in Long Island City. Nevertheless, Director Jenny Dixon has just informed that staffers and volunteers – small in number, but huge in spirit – are working as hard as possible so Noguchi can re-open to the general public on Nov. 10. The […]
New York Looking Into Craigslist Gasoline Sales at $8 a Gallon
The New York attorney general’s office is looking into whether gasoline offered through the Craigslist website for as much as $8 a gallon is legal as motorists cope with retail shortages after Hurricane Sandy. The price for fuel in New York City and Long Island by some individual sellers on Craigslist, the online-classified ad site, […]
No, It Was Definitely A Good Idea To Cancel The New York City Marathon
Last night, ESPN The Magazine‘s Chris Jones wrote a column arguing that this past weekend’s New York City Marathon should not have been canceled, despite the fallout from Hurricane Sandy. There were three basic points: first, that the marathon would have been good for runners—and the world that was watching, Jones claimed in a Twitter […]
120 Homeless Vets Relocated to Proposed Carroll Gardens Shelter Site
After being displaced from the Borden Avenue shelter in Long Island City due to Hurricane Sandy, 120 homeless male veterans will be relocated to an unfinished building in Carroll Gardens, according to Community Board 6. The Department of Homeless Services is working to have the veterans moved into the space—the rundown building located at 165 West […]
Long Island Gas Shortage: Lines Still Long
Walk-ups at a Hess gas station in Copiague Saturday, Nov. 3 filled cans and containers of all shapes and dimensions with fuel for their cars and generators, including buckets, water jugs and antifreeze bottles. (Christopher Twarowski/Long Island Press) At the Dunkin Donuts on Pulaski Road in Kings Park, where many are still without lights, the […]
New York Looking Into Craigslist Gasoline Sales at $8 a Gallon
Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) — The New York attorney general’s office is looking into whether gasoline offered through the Craigslist website for as much as $8 a gallon is legal as motorists cope with retail shortages after Hurricane Sandy. The price for fuel available in New York City and Long Island by some individual sellers on […]
Gas Pains: Armed Motorist Busted At Astoria Pump
Federal and state officials are making urgent moves to ease long lines and short tempers at gas stations throughout Queens and the rest of the city. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last week that the Port of New York has reopened for fuel shipments. Cuomo has also waived registration fees and tax requirements for fuel tankers […]
PS 78 Still Closed After Sandy
QUEENS — As schools reopened across western Queens, P.S. 78 in Long Island City stayed dark. The ground floor of P.S. 78, which is located in the CityLights Building in Hunters Point, was deluged by flood water during Hurricane Sandy. As of Monday, the work had not yet been completed, officials said. “Although our goal […]
Storm Art Damage Overwhelms Conservators in Wake of Sandy
The Long Island City facility of Gloria Velandia Art Conservation has seen a steady arrival of damaged artworks ever since Hurricane Sandy flooded Chelsea’s art district in New York. Casualties included pieces by Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Lucio Fontana and Joel Shapiro, according to Chief Financial Officer Steve Ludmer, whose company lists on its website […]
Electricity Explains Why Some Have Gas, Some Don’t
NEW YORK November 3, 2012, 06:11 pm ET NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a question that’s rankled and bewildered many in the Northeast: Why do some areas struck by Superstorm Sandy have plenty of gasoline and others still don’t? It turns out we need electricity to drive. Even if we’re driving cars that run on […]
1.1 million tons of emergency food coming to Staten Island, hurricane-stricken …
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Help is on the way for hungry hurricane victims. More than 1.1 million pounds of food will pour into Staten Island and other areas of New York devastated by Hurricane Sandy after the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved the state’s request for emergency food resources. The food will be […]
Disaster expert hired to help Sandy’s New York homeless
People look at homes and businesses destroyed by Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 30 in the Rockaway section of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt, Getty Images) Story Highlights New storm threatens recovery efforts in New York and New Jersey About 1.4 million still without power N.Y. Gov. Cuomo relaxes voting requirements […]
A Flooded Game Maker Unloads on a Shipping Giant
Like plenty of fellow Northeast business owners, Joel Berger is still dealing with a slew of Sandy-related hassles, including cleaning up one of his flooded warehouses in Long Island City, Queens, near the Midtown Tunnel. The water, which reached about two feet up the walls, ruined “tens of thousands” of dollars worth of checker sets, […]
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 […]