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Storm-hit gasoline stations lose power, some run dry
October 31, 2012|David Sheppard and Edward McAllister | Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) – Drivers and homeowners scrambled to secure fuel for their cars and generators in the U.S. Northeast on Wednesday as storm-hit gasoline stations started to run dry. More than half of all gasoline service stations in the New York City area and New […]
Hunters Point Residents Clean Up After Sandy
QUEENS — On Wednesday afternoon, a group of residents sat at tables at Foodcellar supermarket in Hunters Point. Some brought laptops, others read books. One family came with two suitcases. They were the tenants from The PowerHouse nearby, a luxury condo at 2-17 51 Ave., a former steam power station that has been without electricity […]
Transportation Options After Sandy
Updated Nov. 1, 2012 7:50 AM Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared a transportation emergency on Wednesday night and has waived all the fares for the MTA commuter trains, subways and buses on Thursday and Friday. City residents can also now take advantage of the East River Ferry service. Officials were alarmed with the traffic clogging […]
(UPDATE) East River Ferry to resume, HOV restrictions on two bridges
UPDATE: Governor Cuomo announced on Wednesday night that he has authorized the MTA to waive all train and bus fares for the remainder of the week. 14 of the city’s 23 subways will be running on Thursday in segments, largely leaving out lower Manhattan, where there is still no power. MTA Chairman Joe Lhota expects […]
New Yorkers in fuel scramble as storm-hit pumps dry up
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Drivers and homeowners scrambled to secure fuel for their cars and generators in the U.S. Northeast on Wednesday as storm-hit gasoline stations started to run dry. More than half of all gasoline service stations in the New York City area and New Jersey were shut because of depleted fuel supplies and […]
Limited Subway Service To Resume Thursday
Gov. Cuomo announced that limited commuter rail service on Metro North and the Long Island Rail Road will begin at 2 p.m. today–and some subway service will follow tomorrow. The subway service, he said, will be supplemented by a “bus bridge” from Brooklyn to Manhattan. While he didn’t specifically say which lines will be back […]
New Yorkers scramble for fuel, gas stations run dry
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Drivers and homeowners scrambled to secure fuel for their cars and generators in the U.S. Northeast on Wednesday as storm-hit gasoline stations started to run dry. More than half of all gasoline service stations in the New York City area and New Jersey were shut because of depleted fuel supplies and […]
Cuomo, Bloomberg push to protect NYC, cite climate
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York 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 protection of the […]
Commuter Hell: Long Lines, Nightmare Traffic, And Chaos Buses
With the subways still down in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, and no timetable yet on when they might be back (although we’re expected to get a better idea of that sometime today), the city is offering partial, free bus service to help commuters get to work today. While it’s understandable there might be some […]
New York City bars reopen in the wake of Hurricane Sandy
Many of New York’s trendiest cocktail bars are located in areas of the city heavily impacted by Hurricane Sandy—the East Village and Lower East Side, DUMBO, Long Island City, Brooklyn Heights, even the Financial District. Regions that saw inundation during the hurricane, and continue to face power outages in the days to come.Thanks to a […]
Long Beach, NY: Contaminated water, no power
LONG BEACH, N.Y. (AP) — In Long Beach, Long Island, the city’s water is contaminated and the electricity is out. Several dozen people gathered Wednesday at a free cell phone charging station outside a closed supermarket. One of the shell-shocked residents recalled how he parked on higher ground, thinking his car was safe. It was […]
Cuomo says Sandy NYC-area recovery will be "long term"
Oct 31, 2012 — Governor Cuomo, who says he spent a “frightening” night monitoring storm devastation in lower Manhattan, held a briefing Tuesday addressing short… Oct 31, 2012 — Emergency declarations have been canceled across the North Country now that Hurricane Sandy (now Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy) tracked away from our… Oct 31, 2012 — Hurricane […]
Lower Manhattan Staggering
Lower Manhattan Staggering MANHATTAN (CN) – The lights of the Empire State Building marked the divide between a nearly blacked-out Lower Manhattan and the rest of the city Tuesday night, as New York City reeled from the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy. Six hundred thousand Con Ed customers were still blacked out Tuesday, the company said, […]
4 men arrested in Long Island store burglary try
EAST GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) — Police on Long Island say four men were arrested for attempting to rob a store that had been damaged by the recent storm. Newsday reports (http://bit.ly/Tm7M05 ) the four men entered the Hempstead store, Expression, early Tuesday morning. The store’s door had been damaged, but them men left empty […]
President Obama Declared A Major Disaster In New York and Long Island
By: WSPA Staff, Associated Press, CNN, CBS | News Channel 7 Published: October 30, 2012Updated: October 30, 2012 – 11:52 PM NEW YORK, NY — Millions Still Without Power After Sandy Moves Inland he death toll continues to rise and the scope of the devastation from Sandy is still being calculated. At least 50 deaths […]
Sandy’s impact: Scenes from New York City
Originally published: October 30, 2012 8:33 PM Updated: October 30, 2012 10:59 PM By MARTIN C. EVANS, RANDI F. MARSHALL, ROBERT LEWIS AND ZACHARY R. DOWDY [email protected] Photo credit: Getty Images | An apartment building in Chelsea, downtown Manhattan, is seen Tuesday, the morning after it lost its facade while Sandy, with near-hurricane-force winds and […]
Cuomo says Sandy recovery in NYC area will be "long term"
Oct 31, 2012 — Governor Cuomo, who says he spent a “frightening” night monitoring storm devastation in lower Manhattan, held a briefing Tuesday addressing short… Oct 30, 2012 — Whipping winds from Hurricane Sandy haven’t caused much damage so far in St. Lawrence County. Emergency officials say things were relatively calm… Oct 30, 2012 — […]
7 Shocking NYC Flooding Videos
In this surreal footage, water gushes into the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. With the exception of the Lincoln Tunnel, all major bridges and tunnels in and out of Manhattan were closed on Monday, leaving the island almost completely isolated. The water level at Battery Park was measured at a record 13.88 feet. The storm also pummeled […]
New York City after Hurricane Sandy: Outages, fire, destruction
NEW YORK (AP) — Hurricane Sandy pummeled the East killing 10 people in New York City and leaving the nation’s largest city eerily quiet Tuesday, with no running trains, a darkened business district and neighborhoods under water. It was “a devastating storm, maybe the worst that we have ever experienced,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who […]
Assessing the Damage From Hurricane Sandy
More than six million customers lost power Monday as Hurricane Sandy felled trees, downed power lines and flooded substations. The storm led to power failures in at least 17 states, including more than a million customers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and about 660,000 in New York City. Roughly a quarter million customers lost power […]