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LIC businesses collect supplies, provide charging stations and free shows in …
Long Island City businesses, individuals and politicians are all coming together to help out neighborhoods that were pummeled by Hurricane Sandy. LIC Market at 21-52 44th Drive has a growing pile of clothing — especially sweatpants, sweatshirts, socks, coats and underwear — non perishable foods, baby supplies, batteries, flashlights, water and daily newspapers donated from […]
Teebs missed Moogfest, not playing Glasslands, but is in Long Island City …
Reggie Watts at a Brooklyn loft party last month (more by Gretchen Robinette) Teebs and The Mast were supposed to play Glasslands tonight (11/2), but that show, we just realized, was cancelled last month and instead Glasslands will host Cultfever and Kenji Urada (not Blonds, as originally listed) tonight and a late night Hurricane Sandy […]
Power, gasoline and ferry service bring relief to many hurricane-weary New …
Gary Hershorn/Reuters People board a ferry bound for New York at a dock on the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey, Friday. Four days after Sandy smashed into the Northeast, rescuers were still discovering the extent of the death and devastation, and anger mounted over gasoline shortages, power outages and waits for relief supplies. Relief […]
MoMA PS1 Offers Shelter to New Yorkers
MoMA PS1 offers place to rest and charge cell phones. (DNAinfo/Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska) QUEENS — MoMA PS1 is inviting New Yorkers who may need shelter to come over and make themselves at home. New Yorkers can visit the Jackson Avenue museum for free, spend as much time as they want during its hours, charge their phones […]
DiNapoli Estimates Economic Loss from Sandy Could Top $18 Billion
(Albany, N.Y.) New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today projected the economic damage from Hurricane Sandy could exceed $18 billion for New York State. “These are difficult days for New Yorkers as we work to clean up and recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy,” DiNapoli said. “Lives have been lost, homes and […]
Hurricane Sandy Death Toll 41 In New York City, Hard Hit Staten Island …
Breezy Point Fire Damage caused by a fire at Breezy Point is shown Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, in the New York City borough of Queens. The fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in the flooded neighborhood. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Firefighters look up at the facade […]
Hurricane Sandy Aftermath: Staten Island Residents Frustrated, Angry, Says …
Books Review | Jessica Durham Updated: Nov 02, 2012 10:30 AM EDT (Photo : Reuters) Anthony Lipin helps his family throw flood damaged furniture from his home onto the street in the New Dorp Beach neighborhood of the Staten Island borough of New York on Thursday. Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath is one that many didn’t imagine […]
Long lines at gas stations continue to frustrate drivers
Cabdriver Harum Prince joined a nearly mile-long line for gasoline early Friday in Manhattan after already spending three hours in a similar queue in the Bronx — only to have the station run out of gas when it was almost his turn. Prince leases his cab from a garage for $130 a day; in order […]
Storm brings flooding, gas shortages to western Queens
Photo by Rebecca Henely Long Island City resident Sal Vito points out where the storm surge rose on 47th Road near Center Boulevard during Hurricane Sandy. By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers While northwestern Queens was not hit as hard as other parts of the borough during Superstorm Sandy, residents were still feeling its effects after […]
Sandy Leaves Thousands In The Dark
By MEGAN MONTALVO While Superstorm Sandy may be out of sight, the after-effects of power loss are still plaguing residents Citywide. The day after the devastation, Consolidated Edison reported that approximately 780,000 customers were without electrical service, including 116,000 in Queens alone. Another 7,000 Long Island Power Authority customers were also without power […]
In hipster Brooklyn, a fuel terminal padlocked as drivers steam
By Edward McAllister NEW YORK (Reuters) – As drivers in Sandy-battered New York sit steaming in long lines to buy gasoline, a small fuel terminal on a remote road in a trendy Brooklyn neighborhood lies idle, gates padlocked – mute testimony to the root of the energy crisis now gripping the city. Motiva’s plant in […]
Why Isn’t the G Train Running? [Updated]
Down and out of service. (lesterhead/Flickr) Update 11/1 8:09: We finally sort of found out how it is the G train flooded even though it does not go under the East River. Currently, the section of the train running under Newtown Creek is full of water (between the oil, the Superfund sites, and now this, that […]
Hurricane Sandy floods Long Island City, Astoria
Western Queens as a whole weathered Hurricane Sandy without too much damage, residents said. A few trees and lots of branches came down; Gantry Plaza State Park was flooded, but the water subsided by Tuesday afternoon; LaGuardia Airport also filled to the brim and didn’t open until 7 a.m. on Thursday; but nevertheless most of […]
Officials Reach Out To Aid Storm Victims
By ROSS BARKAN Superstorm Sandy, a weather system seemingly without precedent, ravaged Queens earlier this week, flooding, burning and cutting the power to numerous neighborhoods. Sandy killed more than 20 New Yorkers, scorched Breezy Point and sent water crashing through neighborhoods like Howard Beach, Broad Channel and Hunters Point in Long Island City. The […]
Sandy power outages could last another 10 days; new winter storm builds
MSNBC’s Richard Lui reports on the massive fuel outages following Hurricane Sandy. By Miguel Llanos, NBC News Hundreds of thousands of people in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey may not have power restored for up to 10 more days, officials warned Thursday. Meanwhile, weather forecasters said a winter storm could hit the […]
How To Save New York
Flooding in downtown New York’s Financial District on Monday night Photograph by Andrew Burton/Getty Images. Growing up in New York City, I never had much consciousness of it as a coastal city. The beaches are in the farthest-off parts of the outer boroughs, and the population centers in Manhattan and Brooklyn are oriented inward rather […]
Businesses in Queens Plaza Welcome Crowds of Frustrated Commuters
QUEENS — Thousands of people streamed into Queensboro Plaza Thursday — one of the few places commuters are able to travel directly to Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy — snapping up everything from bicycles to sandwiches and helping local stores recover some of the losses from the monster storm. Dunkin’ Donuts, which is located right next […]
Long Waits, But Here Are NYC’s Current Transportation Options
[Crowds waiting for the shuttle bus at Barclays Center, photo via Twitter/BlingLingBling] Partial subway service resumed this morning on 14 lines, and while the trains seem to be running pretty smoothly, albeit more crowded, the waits for the connecting buses are extremely long. At 6:30 a.m. this morning, one person reported that the line for […]
Federal Storm Aid Available for NYC, NJ, LI Residents
Getty Images Oct. 31, 2012: Seaside Heights, N.J.– Rescue workers gather around a house wrecked by Superstorm Sandy. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says federal funding is being made available to storm-affected residents and business owners in New York City, parts of New Jersey and on Long Island. Assistance includes grants for temporary […]
Cuomo, Bloomberg push to protect NYC, cite climate
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday pushed for new and better protection of the nation’s biggest city that could include sea walls and levees to ward off what Cuomo fears is an emerging pattern of violent storms. Cuomo continued his call for better […]