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The subway comes back, in GIF.
Since Sandy left town, we’ve been downloading MTA subway-recovery maps to feed WNYC’s Changing Trains map. Our Steve Melendez put them together in a time-lapse GIF. Click through to the full-size image.
Great graphic — one that shows the speed of the recovery.
We’ve been training for a year. I think they did the right thing by canceling it. But what else were we going to do? We wanted to run.Runner Ola Lilja • Discussing why she took part in what was described as an “underground” marathon in NYC on Sunday, despite the fact that the city had cancelled the official one. Thousands showed up to race anyway, with all the makings of the race — including the finish line — set up and security guards playing a role in keeping everything in line. Not everyone took part — many runners instead chose to travel to Staten Island, which was devastated by the hurricane, to help out.
Please, I know sometimes people are reticent to take advantage of services. The cold really is something that is dangerous.NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg • In a plea to residents suffering from the effects of Hurricane Sandy, encouraging them to work with the city to fight the cold. The city, citing temperatures falling to the 30s, recently opened warming shelters for those who needed to get out of the cold, and also handed out 25,000 blankets to people who chose to stay. 700,000 people in city are still without power.
Get ready New York…
Brilliant. Such a show of quiet resiliency. Their best cover since this one.
Six ways you can help Hurricane Sandy’s victims.
The Subway Is Back (Sorta)
As of tomorrow, mass rail transit is kinda returning to New York City!
The upshot, basically, is:
- You can get from the Bronx to Upper Manhattan, and Upper Manhattan to the Bronx.
- You can get from Queens to Upper Manhattan, and Upper Manhattan to Queens.
- You can kinda get around Queens and the Bronx
- You can get east to west in north and central Brooklyn, and
- from central Brooklyn to parts of South Brooklyn, and vice versa.
- If you want to go between Brooklyn and Manhattan you can take one of three shuttle busses, running from, respectively, Atlantic Center, Jay Street and Hewes St. and all going to 57th and Lexington Ave.
Here is a map:
The slow crawl back to normalcy continues. Good luck, New Yorkers.
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Resources: NYC Evacuation Zones | Flood Gauges | Transit TrackerThe @WNYC beacon. Seemingly the only power in the nabe after Lower Manhattan plunged into darkness. #sandy
WNYC has done a great job covering this hurricane. It only makes sense that they’re doing everything in their power to stay online.
Have a very large branch down on the street outside of my house, but that clearly is nothing compared to what NYC dealt with last night.
According to Slate, YouTube is doing a better job than Twitter of telling us the important stories coming from NYC tonight. Example: Here’s a clip of an entire wall falling off a building in Chelsea. (?!?)
From the description: ”Jane’s carousel is basically an island now. Poor horses.” (ht @pbump)
Dark NYC (7th Ave looking downtown from 22nd)
The city with the world’s brightest lights, without said lights. Stay safe, Dan.
A partially collapsed crane hangs from a high-rise building in Manhattan as Hurricane Sandy makes its approach in New York October 29, 2012. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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