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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 […]
Only in a free country…
Would they let this guy fuel up in this shortage. Or run a marathon after flying in from Australia… Oh wait.
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 […]
What district are you voting in?
Click here http://gis.nyc.gov/vote/ps/index.htm
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, […]
Blankets Batteries and Flashlights at Oracle
Help out. > > Dear Friends of the Oracle, > > We’re collecting batteries, blankets and flashlights at the Oracle Club tonight until 11pm, and tomorrow between 8am-11pm, for those in the Rockaways who’ve been affected by Hurricane Sandy. Please forward this email and spread the words. Thanks! > > The Oracle Club is located […]
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 […]
NYC Storm Recovery: Schools Open Monday, Close Election Day
NEW YORK, New York, November 5, 2012 (ENS) – Classes resumed for nearly one million New York public school students Monday as schools opened for the first time since Hurricane Sandy brought the city to a standstill one week ago. About 90 percent of the schools are open, except for eight schools serving as emergency […]
Voting tomorrow – where to go
Go to this site and type in your address to see where to vote and who is on the ballot http://gis.nyc.gov/vote/ps/index.htm
Climate Change and Sandy’s Impact in the Age of Inequality
One clear lesson in the wake of Hurricane Sandy is that extreme weather in the age of climate change and global warming knows no class, race and privilege boundaries. Many, many communities in the New York metropolitan area need help, but as David Rohde wrote this week in The Atlantic, “Sandy humbled every one of […]