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 […]
Hurricane winners
National Scrap at Queensboro Plaza
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 […]
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 […]