New Yorkers’ easier commute is welcome post-storm progress
By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dreaded Monday morning commute into New York City two weeks after Superstorm Sandy was eased slightly by lighter holiday traffic, restoration of some train lines and a long-awaited opening of the final tunnel shut by historic flooding. Tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the hardest […]
Gas station manager: “everything is normal”
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A Policy Wreck: Gas Rationing Amid Plenty of Fuel
If you need gasoline in storm-struck New York City, Long Island or most of New Jersey, your chances of buying some today are no better than 50-50. But don’t blame Sandy for your ongoing inconvenience; misguided politicians are doing most of the damage now. New York City and Long Island imposed gasoline rationing last week […]
Hurricane Sandy Damage Amplified By Breakneck Development Of Coast
By John Rudolf, Ben Hallman, Chris Kirkham, Saki Knafo and Matt Sledge On the night that Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, Vinny Baccale was in his Staten Island living room, plotting a last-minute escape and regretting not evacuating, when his kids shouted to him from another room. Their neighbor was outside, trying to start […]
Hurricane Sandy Service Update: Verizon Is Out in Force on Veterans Day …
<!– end javascript to email the article –> Company Has Purchased 8,500 Poles and 50,000 Fiber-Optic Drop Lines, Used More Than 14 Million Feet of Wire Since Sandy’s Oct. 29 Landfall FiOS Stores in Most-Affected Areas Offer Free Device-Charging to Those Without Power PR Newswire BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Nov. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — On this […]
SBA Opens Business Recovery Center in Long Island City, NY
U.S. Small Business Administration openes Business Recovery Center in Long Island City; Representatives on hand at the Center to answer questions about the disaster loan program and assist business owners in completing applications (Long Island, N.Y.) On Nov. 9, 2012, the U.S. Small Business Administration announced that it has opened a Business Recovery Center in […]
Questions: Why is there still a gas crisis and why are prices high at the pump? – The Jersey Journal
NEW YORK — Many drivers in New York and New Jersey are still struggling to find gasoline nearly two weeks after Superstorm Sandy battered the region’s energy infrastructure. To help alleviate long lines at service stations, a gas rationing plan that lets motorists fill up every other day went into effect in New York on […]
Drivers grapple with NYC gas rationing after Sandy
With police monitoring lines, motorists in New York City and Long Island on Friday began dealing with a new piece of fallout from Sandy the monster storm: odd-even gas rationing. By Jim Fitzgerald, Tom Hays, Associated Press / November 10, 2012 Police direct cars to gas pumps outside a gas station in the Brooklyn borough of […]
SBA Opens Business Recovery Center in Long Island City, NY
ATLANTA, Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Small Business Administration opens a Business Recovery Center today in Long Island City, New York. Businesses with physical damages or loss of revenue caused by Hurricane Sandy should consider visiting the Center and applying for an SBA disaster business loan. SBA’s customer service representatives are on hand at the Center […]
Grub So Hard: LIC’s Corner Bistro Goes Beyond the Burger
Corner Bistro 47-18 Vernon Blvd.718-606-6500cornerbistrony.com Perfect For: Strange conversations with regulars at the bar, inhaling burgers after imbibingOn the Speakers: Incubus – “Make Yourself”Wallet Stress: Low ($2.75 to $8) Corner Bistro’s original West Village location is a New York institution. Tipsy hoards have been lured in by the bar’s vintage red neon sign (which they’re in the process […]
Hurricane Sandy Service Update: Verizon Continues Round-the-Clock …
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As post-storm gas rationing hits NYC, shorter lines, but drivers short on patience
NEW YORK – A return to 1970s-era gas rationing seemed to help with hourslong gas station lines that formed after Superstorm Sandy, but it didn’t end a fuel-gauge fixation that suddenly has become a way of life for drivers in the nation’s largest city. With police monitoring lines, motorists in New York City and Long […]
Gas crunch eases
Both Hunterspoint BP and Getty have gas. Lines short.
100000 NY Homes, Businesses Face Months Without Power
About 100,000 homes and businesses in New York City and Long Island were so damaged by Hurricane Sandy that restoring power to some of them may take months, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said. About two-thirds are on Long Island’s south shore, with 36,000 clustered in Staten Island and the Rockaways where the most flooding […]
Superstorm Sandy: Long Lines, No Power Two Weeks Later
Nov 10, 2012 10:04am Kathy Willens/AP Photo) After spending nearly two weeks in the dark, Long Island residents are directing their anger toward their local power company, which many say is out of touch, sending bills instead of updates. “Nobody knows nothing in the building. Save your breath,” a frustrated resident told ABC News. Nearly […]
Sandy Gas Rationing: Post-Hurricane Challenges Continue As New Jersey And …
Long Island Residents, Many Still Without Power, Continue To Clean Up After Superstorm Sandy LONG BEACH, NY – NOVEMBER 09: A man walks past a destroyed section of the boardwalk at the base of Lincoln Boulevard as Long Islanders continue their clean up efforts in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy on November 9, 2012 in […]
Drivers grapple with NYC gas rationing after Sandy
Drivers grapple with NYC gas rationing after Sandy By JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press – 4 hours ago NEW YORK (AP) — A return to 1970s-era gas rationing seemed to help with hourslong gas station lines that formed after Superstorm Sandy, but it didn’t end a fuel-gauge fixation that suddenly has become a way of life […]
Recycling Services, Out Since Sandy’s Start, Will Resume Soon
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After the Storm, a City Full of Stories
Julie Glassberg for The New York Times ON THE JOB Ed Shevlin, a sanitation worker from the Rockaways, said: “I’ll be wearing this uniform every day for months.” ED SHEVLIN looked out over a mountain range of soggy trash in the parking lot of Jacob Riis Park in Queens and proclaimed it “an tubaiste mor” […]
Promoting Queens and Discovering It
Karsten Moran for The New York Times Jukay Hsu, 28, founded Coalition for Queens, a nonprofit group promoting development and the tech industry in the borough where he grew up, in May 2011. Since Hurricane Sandy, the coalition, based in Long Island City, has worked with local officials to gather storm relief information and resources […]