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South of 25th Street, No Lights and Lots of Dead Cellphones
By artappraiser on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 2:44am |By Marc Santora, New York Times, October 30/31, 2012
Never before has the divide between uptown and downtown in Manhattan been starker. Or darker.
On Tuesday, as New Yorkers coped with their first post-Hurricane Sandy night without power, the dividing line between north and south in the city was 25th Street.
South of 25th, the streetlights on the West Side were not working, and the buildings were completely dark. There seemed to be no stores there, no Starbucks, no places to charge a phone and no idea when the lights would go back on. South of 25th, the effects of the storm were deeply felt. Not so uptown.
“I just biked down from Hell’s Kitchen, and it is like a Friday night up there,” said Chris Degner, who lives in TriBeCa. “And then you get down here and it is like entering a zombie movie.”
He had been at a bar in Midtown called Valhalla. He struggled to describe what it was like to go from a “pub that is packed elbow to elbow” to streets where people are scrambling to find a way to find spare candles and were worried about locating a bag of ice.[....]
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/in-lower-manhattan-still-feeling-the-effects-of-the-storm.html?hp
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Good, well-edited NYTimes' slideshow, 42 pics:
A Region Battered and Hurting
Also they have a good interactive graphics page for tri-state damage:
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 3:16am
Ditto from The New Yorker:
After Sandy, a Dark Downtown
Posted by Alex Koppelman, October 30, 2012
It’s an island, and not even a particularly big one—just 13.4 miles from tip to tip—but, as of late Tuesday afternoon, Manhattan had been divided into two separate cities.....
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 4:22am
From The New Yorker's slideshow: rare 20th-century artifact comes in handy downtown:
during 21st-century fail:
I believe the second photo is showing a scene I've seen mentioned in more than one story: the CNN crew, while ensconced in front of the building that lost its front wall, was allowing people to charge their cell phones from their power source.
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 5:03am
Thanks AA, embarrassingly OK up here on the upper westside. Daughter lost power and water down on 34th Street, but she's good. The ex lost everything out in Long Beach, but thank heavens she evacuated with the dog (after extensive lobbying by quite an assembled team). Hope you're OK.
by Bruce Levine on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 11:04am
Bruce, we too had less damage than your usual Noreaster, I reported in with a few more details on Richard Day's thread here:
http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/acts-god-15294
Genghis put a pix there, his apartment is under the dangling crane on 56th. Destor had commented there until Monday night, then he stopped, I think he might live downtown. Mr Smith and others reported in there, too.
Long Beach I saw a report on-last night-just horrible--sorry for your family's loss. The number of 90% of Long Island without power is just mind boggling to contemplate, even with the memories of the 2003 Northeast blackout still fresh in my mind, because the damage is not centralized and cannot be turned back on as easily as 2003.
My next door neighbors (retired Irish barkeep) have (had?) a summer house on Breezy Point; while they were able to figure out that their house wasn't in the blocks with the fire, they still have no idea what else may have happened to it Mrs Neighbor started crying when I showed her the photo of the remnants of church there burned on the front page of the NYT website yesterday.
The spouse went to work on the Upper East Side first today via his old junker business car. I am stuck in the Bronx now unless I go with him in the morning and leave with him at night. To just contemplate about others like me: devastating to Manhattan's economy every day the subway is down--and seeing a big boom for livery cabs and corner bodegas in the boroughs.
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 12:01pm
P.S. I see on the NYT website just now, they have asked commuters to tweet their woes:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/nyregion/hurricane-sandy.h...
I see how things are trying to open, like Broadway, but I don't get how they plan to service customers. I imagine people in hotels having to make their own breakfast buffet and find their own car in the flooded underground lot. Another example: they are planning on opening a Print Fair in the 67th Street Armory Thursday instead of Wednesday; but I don't see how they can do that without enough of people that operate it able to get in. Many of the people who actually operate Manhattan do not live in it and cannot afford a cab even if they could find one.
Example:
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 12:18pm
Another example, they can't get the airports fully operational again without mass transit for the workers who operate them:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/nyregion/hurricane-sandy.h...
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 12:43pm
Ok so maybe this is a silly question, but is anybody delivering bikes?
by erica20 on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 12:45pm
They'd have to deliver them to millions over a huge area to make a dent in the problem. You don't even need a bike if you live in Manhattan, it's small enough to walk anywhere. The problem is that most of the people who run Manhattan live in Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Staten Island, Long Island, New Jersey. Plus their commutes are often an hour or more on the trains in normal times, via bike in many cases it would be quite the marathon, not too helpful for your typical maid, cook, clerk, hospital aide, school worker or teacher. You have to be in a pretty good state of health to bike it over the Brooklyn Bridge First I think bikes would be helpful to get kids to school, but then I think parents would worry about them being in the traffic (lots of older kids commute to schools outside their nabes.)
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 1:04pm
Ah, that makes sense.
by erica20 on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 1:07pm
I biked over the 59th St. bridge to find a cafe I like in Queens. Rough going because of the mass of pedestrians swarming into Manhattan.
by Michael Wolraich on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 2:05pm
Were you feelin' groovy?
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 3:25pm
I had dinner last night next door to Valhalla--the bar that they mention in the article. It was packed in there--and everywhere else that was open.
by Michael Wolraich on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 2:12pm
So is dinner in Hell's Kitchen and morning coffee in Queens via bicycle the new black? Or are you just trying to get back at friends who razz you for not living in Williamsburg?
(I swear I recently heard people talking that the Upper East Side is going to be the new Brooklyn because the rents are cheaper there.
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by artappraiser on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 6:44pm
This is post-Apocalypse - people will be moving to high rent districts just to save 60-90 minute walks. That look across the river? Only on weekends now.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 7:06pm
Public service announcement for New Yorkers, here's the new temporary subway map for tomorrow:
http://www.mta.info/sites/default/files/pdf/HurricaneRecoveryMapOct31201...
The other news is that because of what happened today, no one is allowed to cross into Manhattan in a car tomorrow with less than 3 people in it, from 6AM to midnight, excepting the GW Bridge .(And no, I don't know why New Jersey peeps are considered so much more valuable than the rest.)
<snark>Plus, this just in: if at a inbound crossing you are found to have a soda larger than 16 oz in your car or cigarette butts in your ashtray, you will be instructed to proceed directly to Riker's Island. </snark>
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 6:57pm
Meantime, life does go on. Just got back from trick-or-treating with a gaggle of screaming youngsters, my Noa in her lady bug get up right in there with the best of them. They came back to the apartment and trashed the place. It doesn't get much better than this. Hope does spring eternal.
by Bruce Levine on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 8:06pm
good to hear
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 9:15pm
I read that OWS is doing quite a lot of organizing and volunteer work, canvassing people for needs, etc.
All those fit young people with bikes and sensible foul weather gear, it makes total sense!
by erica20 on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 9:00pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 9:20pm
Ooh yay, I haven't seen that one! (I mean the power loss layer.)
It's like nerd Christmas.
by erica20 on Thu, 11/01/2012 - 12:12am
A map so cool you will want it as a screen saver.
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/currents/glcfs-currents-month.php?mo...
If you lost a pair of sunglasses in Lake Ontario last summer, you could have found them on the beach near Rochester NY on Monday.
by erica20 on Thu, 11/01/2012 - 1:16am
Thanks, I will be sending that to some Wisconsin friends and family
by artappraiser on Thu, 11/01/2012 - 3:43am
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by artappraiser on Thu, 11/01/2012 - 3:32pm
The Red Cross representative was just grilled on air by phone on NY1 right now (she was tough on him.) He basically said the City government did not want them anywhere, that they sat down with the City on the planning for the storm and the City wanted to handle shelter and other needs and not have Red Cross conflicting. But that now that they have been asked to come in, they will have boots on the ground in Staten Island today; same situation in the Rockaways, they will be there ASAP now that they know they are wanted.
The buck is passed back to you, Mayor Bloomberg! What say you?
by artappraiser on Thu, 11/01/2012 - 3:41pm