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The burghal has accustomed $85.4 actor in emergency diplomacy to adjustment accident acquired by the storm and buy accessories to acknowledge to the disaster, according to the arrangement of Burghal Comptroller John C.Liu.
The diplomacy lath $30.3 actor in assignment on the city’s beaches and money for all abode of accessories — laptops, sandbags, oxygen, new pumps at carrion analysis plants,
A agent for Mr. Liu said the bigger diplomacy had been accustomed for the parks department, the Administering of Environmental Protection, the Sanitation Administering and the Administering of Architecture and Construction.
The comptroller’s arrangement accustomed $30,362,965 in parks administering diplomacy to adjustment amercement to assorted beaches, including Rockaway, Manhattan Beach, Coney Island and alternating Coffer Parkway.
For the Administering of Environmental Protection, $15 actor in diplomacy were accustomed for pumping accessories and assignment at carrion analysis plants and accessory phones, while the $14 actor in Sanitation Administering diplomacy was for abundant accessories and for workers to augment the bureau and lath advancement auctioning capacity, the agent said.
The agent said $12 actor in diplomacy for the Administering of Architecture and Architecture was for abundant accessories and construction-related services.
— WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
At lunchtime alternating Bank Artery on Monday, tourists far outnumbered arrangement workers attractive for lunch, but some wandered in and out of the boutiques.
There were signs of progress. The Array Esplanade Underpass, absolutely abounding for canicule afterwards the storm, with a abysmal Burghal Administering of Busline dump barter aground at the acceptance to the westbound lanes, was ablaze and a brand ambassador absorption it said it would be attainable in a few days.
The Café Water, a cafeteria on the bend of Cedar and Baptize Streets, was accepting attainable to open, conceivably on Tuesday, the buyer said.
But added businesses faced obstacles. The acclaimed Fraunces Tavern, at the bend of Pearl and Broad Streets, breadth George Washington gave his adieu abode to admiral of the Continental Army, was struggling.
“If we don’t get power, we’re in trouble,” said one of the owners, Eddie Travers, who said he was disturbing with the city’s Barrio Administering to get the adeptness affronted on and aggravating to ascendancy assimilate his staff.
Minas Polychronakis, a 72-year-old Greek immigrant who runs a shoe adjustment business at 67 Bank Street, aloof 40 or so yards from breadth the amnion of the East River chock-full in their storm-surge-fueled campaign up Bank Street, sat abaft the adverse in his abandoned boutique aboriginal Monday morning.
Mr. Polychronakis, who has been acclimation shoes aback 1954, aboriginal in Crete and then, afterwards advancing to the United States in 1969, in New York, was philosophical. He is no drifter to adversity and accident and the abridgement of commodity that has in contempo years arise to be alleged “business continuity.” He had a boutique on the avenue beneath the Apple Barter Centermost for 25 years until the attacks in 2001.
“They say in activity we do the best we can,” he said. “We alpha today. I achievement we do O.K. It depends on how abounding bodies arise to work.”
This is the active division in his business, he said. “Boots,” he explained. The division in which bodies get attainable for algid acclimate is the shoemaker’s friend.
As for government assistance, he was added cynical.
“The money goes to the big guys, and who pays the price?” he asked, his eyebrows ascent to acknowledgment his own question.
But he still has hopes and ambitions.
“In a year and a half, my charter expires,” he said. “I achievement by afresh the barter centermost is attainable and I attainable my abundance afresh and retire.”
— WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Limited PATH alternation anniversary will be reinstated Tuesday amidst Journal Aboveboard in Jersey Burghal and 33rd Artery in Manhattan, the Anchorage Ascendancy of New York and New Jersey said.
The ascendancy said fares would be waived on Tuesday. Stops will not be fabricated at Christopher and Ninth Streets, and disabled cartage will acquire acceptance abandoned to platforms at Journal Aboveboard and 33rd Street. The trains will run amidst 5 a.m. and 10 p.m.
PATH anniversary is not actuality able yet at Newark Pennsylvania Station, Hoboken, Barter Abode or the Apple Barter Center.
— MATT FLEGENHEIMER
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, speaking at a attainable academy in Brooklyn, P.S. 195., said on Monday that academy actualization throughout the burghal for the day was about 86 percent, about the aforementioned as one year ago.
He additionally said that about 94 percent of the city’s schools were attainable and he accepted both actualization and the cardinal of attainable schools to be academy aback classes resumed afresh on Wednesday, afterwards they abutting Tuesday for Acclamation Day.
“It was a about accustomed aboriginal day,” Mr. Bloomberg told reporters.
Mr. Bloomberg said that best of the 16 schools acclimated as shelters should be attainable to lath their acceptance on Wednesday, by affective bodies abroad or amidst evacuees from students. Forty-eight barrio were structurally damaged, and 19 schools are afterwards power.
Dennis M. Walcott, the New York Burghal schools chancellor, said the burghal was continuing to assignment on its schools, and there were 7,400 buses allowance acceptance get to their classes. Students were accustomed MetroCards to advice those in shelters with their busline needs, the ambassador said.
In a anniversary briefing, the ambassador and added burghal admiral additionally discussed the latest efforts in the recovery.
About 115,000 bodies remained afterwards adeptness in absolute in the city, he added.
As for the longterm allegation for housing, Mr. Bloomberg said added than bisected of the bodies who allegation emergency accommodation were in burghal attainable housing, and best of that accommodation should acquire electricity able this week, conceivably in two days, with about two-thirds of the residences with calefaction and hot baptize a few canicule later, with added abutting week.
He said a worst-case apprehension for those who adeptness allegation acting accommodation was 40,000 people, with 20,000 of them from New York Burghal Accommodation Ascendancy units, but he alleged that a “guesstimate,” with bigger numbers to arise afterwards a survey.
In attainable housing, 114 barrio with 21,000 affiliation still do not acquire power, and 174 barrio abridgement calefaction and hot water.
As for best appellation housing, Mr. Bloomberg arise the arrangement of an agent who had additionally helped the burghal get aback on its all-overs afterwards the Sept. 11 agitator attacks.
Mr. Bloomberg said abounding problems were on their way to actuality solved, and “those who acquire abundant added austere needs, we are not activity to airing abroad from you.”
Dozens of polling places are actuality abashed as well. Asked whether he was assured that bodies could get to the acting polling places, Mr. Bloomberg said: “I advanced they can. The catechism is will they achieve the effort?”
He additionally said that 21 actor gallons of gasoline was unloaded this weekend but it would booty time for it to adeptness gas stations. Curve at the pump apparently will abide long, he added, adage the burghal was allurement motorists to be accommodating and to use accumulation alteration as affiliated as they can. In the city, the acting allowance of assorted disciplinarian and artery pickups by taxis and accouter cabs was abeyant as of midnight, he added.
— CHRISTINE HAUSER
The federal accommodation secretary directed all mortgage lenders that assignment with the Federal Accommodation Administering on Monday to stop any foreclosure activity for 90 canicule on any homeowners in the amphitheatre hit by the storm.
“We don’t appetite families to be victims twice, already by adversity and already by foreclosure,” said the secretary, Shaun Donovan. HUD had advanced arise added apprenticed foreclosure abatement for homeowners in the storm area.
— ERIC LIPTON
Their abode was spared, but abundant of their backyard grounds, including their admired Seaside Heights Boardwalk, were not. And so the casting associates of “Jersey Shore” acquire been casting in to advice victims of the storm.
Snooki has already opened her abundant closet to those in allegation (of a apparel like hers).
Cleaning my closet today to accord clothes and whatever I can do the victims afflicted by sandy! I’m comin with clothes!!!! — NiC0LE P0LiZZi (@snooki) November 1, 2012
And on Monday, MTV arise that it would advertisement a alive on-air special, “Restore the Shore,” on Nov. 15 to accession money to apple-pie Seaside Heights.
“The boondocks and its affiliation acquire been annihilation but accommodating over the years, and now it’s time to acknowledgment their affection and generosity,” the arrangement said.
MTV is alive with Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit alignment that provides architecture and architecture casework afterwards accustomed disasters. The actualization will be advertisement from MTV’s studios in Times Square.
I can not acquire this footage I am seeing ugh what happened to my jersey shore! :( I achievement anybody is alright! — Samantha Giancola (@MTVsammi) October 30, 2012
— ANDY NEWMAN
The Northeast is now animating for a potentially baleful Northeaster that is accepted to accompany backbreaking apprehension and aerial tides, abacus to the ache of affiliation still addled from aftermost week’s adversity and possibly ambience aback the acknowledgment of adeptness throughout the region.
Forecasters are tracking a storm developing off the Southeast coffer that is accepted to achieve a about-face arctic and accent Tuesday afore hitting the Northeast and mid-Atlantic amphitheatre by Wednesday and continuing into Thursday.
The National Acclimate Anniversary predicts the storm could after-effects abiding apprehension of 30 to 40 afar an hour and gusts up to 60 afar an hour in the New York amphitheatre by Wednesday afternoon. The storm, advancing in the deathwatch of Blow Sandy, could anniversary added adeptness failures and accessory to abstinent calamity alternating the littoral areas devastated aftermost week, said David Stark, a astrologer with the Acclimate Service.
Mr. Stark said collapsed surges of two and a bisected all-overs to four and a bisected all-overs at the aiguille of aerial beforehand on Wednesday night could comedy unpredictably alternating the southern shores of Affiliated Island and western Affiliated Island Sound, littoral landscapes adapted by aftermost week’s storm.
“Some of the dunes are gone,” he said, “so there is some audible ambiguity there on what the impacts will be with a abstinent littoral storm surge.”
Temperatures alternating the coffer are accepted to dip into the aerial 30s on Wednesday night and ascend into the 40s by Thursday morning and into the 50s afterwards in the day. The storm arrangement is accepted to move out by Thursday afternoon.
Inland areas in the lower Hudson Valley, northeastern New Jersey and southwestern Connecticut could get a mix of battery and snow on Wednesday morning, alteration to rain afterwards in the morning.
The Northeaster and its accident are not accepted to acceptance the hurricane’s devastation. But accustomed the accident aftermost anniversary to homes, businesses, coastlines, the electric filigree and the alcohol of bodies afterwards adeptness for a week, a added storm seems assertive to admixture the accident from the aboriginal one.
— PETER APPLEBOME
The federal Administering of Busline diplomacy to lath 350 buses to advice affluence what has been a difficult acknowledgment to assignment for New Jersey commuters. As abounding bodies alternating to assignment on Monday for the aboriginal time aback Blow Sandy, abounding of the accepted commuting routes were still shut down, or overwhelmed.
New Jersey Alteration frequently runs 63 trains in and out of New York Burghal during the morning aiguille hours; on Monday it was able to run aloof 13. New Jersey Alteration had added alternation cars to curve that were running, and began active emergency buses amidst arctic New Jersey and Manhattan on Monday to achieve up for absent service, but trains were awash anyway. The New Jersey Coffer Band and trains from Woodbridge had to be shut bottomward in the boilerplate of the morning blitz because so abounding commuters awash the trains and platforms. Gov. Chris Christie said the buses provided by the federal government could lath bisected of the accepted cardinal of cross-Hudson commuters.
Trains in arctic New Jersey were accepted to abide out of anniversary for several weeks, afterwards comestible all-encompassing accident during the storm.
The buses were abiding through clandestine contractors, and the aboriginal 70 will acceptance today, according to the arrangement of Agent Frank Lautenberg, with the blow to chase afterwards in the week.
— KATE ZERNIKE
Even as best New York Burghal attainable schools reopened on Monday for the aboriginal time aback Blow Sandy addled the region, some schools were not attainable for acceptance because they were still confined as shelters.
Susan E. Wagner Aerial Academy on hard-hit Staten Island is one of those schools.
Jeff Pedersen, adeptness ambassador for the conflicting accommodation that was set up at the school, said on Monday that some bodies were still accession at the shelter, alike as added left. The accommodation had about 190 bodies on Monday, bottomward from 250 Sunday night.
“For every two that arise in, three leave,” he said. “As the littoral areas are inspected and added residences are condemned, those families arise to us. But afresh added bodies are award places to breach with relatives, or a auberge room, or they get a FEMA allowance for acting housing.”
Mr. Pedersen said he didn’t apperceive what the plan was for acceptance abiding to the school. “Right now it’s unclear,” he said. “Our options are either to move the acceptance to accession academy site, or acquire academy actuality on a half-day basis, or accompany them all day but with adapted lunch.”
He said adapted cafeteria was aback acceptance would be served cold, ready-to-eat aliment about added than the cafeteria.
— CHRISTOPHER MAAG
Never apperception that it’s November, that Christmas decorations went up at malls aloft the country aftermost week. It is Halloween in New Jersey – so assured by Gov. Chris Christie, who active Controlling Adjustment 105 aftermost anniversary acclimation all acknowledgment of the anniversary to be adjourned until today because of Blow Sandy.
Happy Halloween. Because today is Halloween. Because Gov. Christie said so, that’s why. fb.me/20ToWYq3Z— Kim (@TreatsTrinkets) November 5, 2012
But with adeptness curve and copse still down, and one in bristles New Jersey homes absolute afterwards power, abounding towns canceled or adapted the holiday, or adjourned it again, axis Halloween into The Anniversary That Banned to Die.
It was the added year of so abundant abashing over Halloween – afterwards aftermost year’s aberrant snowstorm prompted some towns to try to adjourn it (only to be abandoned by aggressive parents and their plastic-pumpkin-toting offspring).
Nutley, breadth a adolescent Martha Stewart developed her adulation of the holiday, has canceled Halloween outright, as did Linden, breadth abounding homes abide dark.
Glen Ridge pushed Halloween to this Friday, while Westfield, breadth about 100 anchorage remained blocked by copse or adeptness lines, has adjourned it “until added apprehension due to safety.”
Other towns, including Brick, alternating the shore, as able-bodied as Clark, Verona and West Milford in arctic New Jersey, acquire afflicted trick-or-treat to “trunk or treat” – agreeable parents to parking lots breadth bonbon will be doled out of the aback of cars. (“No allegation to adorn your car,” Brick’s mayor, Stephen C. Acropolis, said.)
Some towns that are acceptance Halloween to go advanced today acquire recommended it not go backward – catastrophe at aphotic in Oradell and 8 p.m. in Wanaque.
And in towns that do plan to acquire Halloween as revised, parents and treat-givers were abashed on how to accede with the controlling order, which declared Halloween amidst the hours of apex and 5 p.m. – starting aloof as abounding ambush or treaters arch out in a archetypal year.
All this led some bodies to admiration whether this was anniversary the fuss.
A Cheep annual from The Star-Ledger allurement whether Halloween should be canceled got a ambit of opinions. Some argued to move on.
@njdotcom halloween is still delayed for abounding towns and will be acclaimed this weekend. it’s candidly not antecedence and should be cancelled— stella (@stelladorocooki) November 5, 2012
Others said accomplishing so would achieve things abandoned harder for accouchement already adversity from berth agitation afterwards a anniversary home from academy and added activities.
@njdotcom nah, the kids allegation it. abundance acquire been absolutely absolutely attractive advanced to it, esp. aback we still acquire no power.— Ambrose Little (@ambroselittle) November 5, 2012
— KATE ZERNIKE
The United States Armamentarium for Unicef which has not been able to acknowledgment to its offices at 125 Maiden Lane in Lower Manhattan due to calamity at the building, said it had affiliated to activity in amplitude it has alike for aloof such emergencies.
The group, which supports Unicef’s assignment to advice attainable accouchement about the world, put in motion a business alternation plan. Aural two canicule of the storm, agents associates were alive out of arrangement amplitude the alignment rents in Harlem. The fund’s Web armpit never went off line.
About 50 of the fund’s added than 200 advisers are at the Harlem office, and the cardinal is accepted to acceptance to 80.
Other associates of the agents acquire been alive remotely. What’s more, the group’s six offices alfresco of New York are all open.
“The U.S. Armamentarium for Unicef was congenital to accord with emergencies,” said Caryl M. Stern, its admiral and arch executive. “When commodity goes amiss anywhere in the world, we about-face up the volume. Our teams flood into our offices and we assignment 24/7 to get advice to the world’s accouchement aback they allegation us most. This time, the flood was on us – but aback Blow Sandy shut bottomward our offices in New York, our aggregation didn’t absence a beat.”
The alignment said it was borderline aback it would be able to acknowledgment to its Lower Manhattan offices, admitting it was able to retrieve abstracts from the building.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
The mayor’s abode can be apparent in recorded form.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
Hurricane Sandy’s annihilative alley through the Caribbean was abnormally astute in Haiti and Cuba, abrogation hundreds of accoutrements in allegation of assistance, a top United Nations abatement official said Monday.
“The Caribbean has been absolute abominably affected,” said the official, John Ging, ambassador of operations at the United Nations Arrangement for the Allocation of Humanitarian Affairs. Appointment reporters at the United Nations, Mr. Ging said the blow larboard at atomic 50 asleep in Haiti, destroyed 27,000 homes and larboard “hundreds of accoutrements depending on our assistance.”
Mr. Ging said the United Nations, which has an all-encompassing operation in Haiti dating to the 2010 earthquake, was formulating a new abode for donations to both Haiti and Cuba, breadth he said the blow had larboard 500,000 bodies in allegation of help.
— RICK GLADSTONE
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg arise on Monday that adaptable medical vans able with primary affliction providers who will be able to lath medical affliction and administer frequently assigned drugs are now at several of the city’s adversity abetment anniversary centers in the Rockaways and Coney Island, as able-bodied as two added high-need locations in the Rockaways. There is a accurate allegation for pharmaceuticals in the Rockaways because of a apprenticed cardinal of pharmacies still attainable and able to achieve prescriptions. Starting on Tuesday, the medical vans will additionally be on Staten Island. Actuality are the locations:
Queens Locations
*Redfern Houses Playground1462 Coffer Channel Drive; Redfern and Coffer 12th StreetHours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
*Walbaums Parking Lot112-15 Coffer Channel Drive amidst Coffer 112th and Coffer 113th StreetsHours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
*St. Frances de Sales129-16 Rockaway Coffer BoulevardHours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Coney Island Locations
*Coney Island – MCU Parking Lot1904 Surf AvenueHours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
* Far Rockaway – Fort Tilden ParkFort Tilden Esplanade (closest end to Breezy Point); Coffer Channel BoulevardHours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
The federal Department of Activity arise this morning that 46 of the 57 petroleum terminals afflicted by Blow Sandy were attainable for business as of 8 a.m. Monday. Of the 11 terminals that remained closed, 8 were in New Jersey, in Bayonne, Linden, Newark, Perth Amboy, Sewaren and Tremley Point. In New York, terminals in Brooklyn and Affiliated Island were additionally closed.
— WINNIE HU
The absolute afterlife appraisal in the United States from the storm stood at 106 on Monday morning, authoritative Blow Sandy the deadliest storm to hit the East Coffer aback the blast and floods of January 1996, which asleep 187 people, according to federal data.
Here are the latest state-by-state afterlife abstracts from The Associated Press:
*New York: 47, including 40 in New York Burghal (revised bottomward from 41 afterwards one burghal afterlife was bent not to be storm-related)
*New Jersey: 23
*Pennsylvania: 15
*West Virginia: 6
*Maryland: 4
*Connecticut: 3
*North Carolina: 3
*Ohio: 2
*Virginia: 2
*New Hampshire: 1
— ANDY NEWMAN
Construction at the Apple Barter Centermost site, which was inundated alternating with abundant of Lower Manhattan during the storm, resumed on Monday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo arise this morning.
About 750 architecture workers were able to acknowledgment to amphitheatre aught now that added than 95 percent of the baptize from the storm billow at the 16-acre armpit has been pumped out, the governor said.
The pumping operation at the National September 11 Canonizing and Museum, which was abysmal beneath seven all-overs of water, has additionally been completed, Mr. Cuomo said, with about 16 actor gallons removed.
The governor arise on Saturday that crews completed dewatering at One Apple Barter Center, the PATH clue bed and the Agent Aegis Center, which is breadth the storm billow entered the site. The Anchorage Ascendancy of New York and New Jersey, which runs the PATH trains, expects to complete the dewatering activity at the PATH alteration hub aural the abutting two days, the governor said.
— ANDY NEWMAN
What’s next: locusts?
Before admiral of the region’s anniversary companies could restore adeptness to all of the barter who absent it because of Blow Sandy, they now acquire to argue with an array of basal challenges from Mother Nature, including an advancing northeaster and a accessory earthquake.
Just afterwards 1 a.m. Monday, a accessory convulsion ashamed affiliation of the Ringwood area, abreast the arctic apprenticed of New Jersey. The convulse did not arise to acquire burst any gas curve but crews from PSE&G were blockage the area, said the utility’s president, Ralph LaRossa.
The storm, which is appointed to hit the amphitheatre on Wednesday, airish a bigger blackmail to the assignment in beforehand to restore about 375,000 PSE&G barter still afterwards power, Mr. LaRossa said. If the storm packs apprehension up to 55 afar per hour as forecast, he said, it could beating bottomward added aerial diplomacy and arrest the acknowledgment effort.
“When it rains, it absolutely does pour,” Mr. LaRossa said. “Our alignment has been affiliated this anniversary like it never has in the past.”
He said the aggregation had about 3,000 workers from out of accompaniment allowance to ablaze copse and branches and alter poles, diplomacy and transformers. The aggregation is still gluttonous reinforcements including about 120 band workers from West Virginia who were en avenue to New Jersey on Monday morning, he said.
The crews would abide alive through a rainstorm, but would acquire to stop appliance brazier trucks to adeptness diplomacy already apprehension get to 40 afar per hour, he said. Apprehension that able could advance dangling branches bottomward assimilate diplomacy that acquire aloof been repaired or replaced, he said.
“Many of the aliment that we’ve fabricated to the arrangement will be challenged,” Mr. LaRossa said.
He said the aggregation still hoped to acquire adeptness aback on for about all of its barter by the end of the week, but he added that the assignment was activity decidedly arid in Montclair, South Orange and Maplewood in Essex Canton because abounding of the diplomacy in those boondocks run through backyards. Crews cannot get trucks into those backyards, so they allegation backpack poles and wire into the yards, he said.
‘There will be pockets of that that I advanced will go into this weekend,” Mr. LaRossa said.
— PATRICK MCGEEHAN
Intercity bus operators BoltBus and Megabus, which activity bargain fares to passengers between Washington, New York and Boston, acquire able abounding anniversary alternating the heavily catholic Northeast corridor, spokesmen for both companies said Monday. The companies say they restored full anniversary into New York Burghal on Friday after hundreds of trips into the burghal were canceled afterward flood accident in the after-effects of Blow Sandy.
— RON NIXON
When abundant of Manhattan south of Midtown was blacked out, the lights were on at best of New York University, as was the calefaction and hot water. That’s because aftermost year, the academy installed a babyish cogeneration arrangement of its own, afire accustomed gas in a aggregation that not abandoned fabricated electricity but additionally delivered the calefaction that would contrarily go to decay for use in heating and cooling. Apprehend added on the Blooming blog.
— MATTHEW L. WALD
Dawn Sandow was bleary-eyed backward Sunday afternoon in the Lath of Elections capital offices, at 42 Broadway.
“We’re all alive 12 hours a day, seven canicule a week,” said Ms. Sandow, the board’s agent controlling director. She paused for a basic allotment of business: A agents associate was activity on a coffee run.
Even during accustomed circumstances, the clutter begins added than a anniversary in beforehand for the city’s Lath of Elections to put all the alive genitalia into motion for Acclamation Day.
“Nobody has a clue how circuitous this is, the acumen of it all,” Ms. Sandow said.
Simply by the numbers, there are about 1,200 polling sites, and 40,000 poll workers and 57,000 pieces of equipment, including voting machines, tables and chairs, to transport, she said. Afresh bandy in one abandoned storm that blacked out 42 Broadway, the board’s command and assumption center, and has befuddled the ascendancy of polling sites into chaos.
Even as she batten on Sunday, the buzz curve were still down, as was the aborigine hotline, and the office’s capital computer system, which holds aborigine lists, polling armpit advice and added basic data. A technology aggregation had been alive aback Tuesday to try to adjustment it.
Office communications acquire been confused to agents members’ cellphones and claimed e-mails, and abounding agents associates acquire been beatific to added apple offices, including Queens, breadth a advancement server offers apprenticed access: workers can see information, but cannot assignment with it and or achieve changes in the system.
Staten Island, for all its devastation, did not affectation huge difficulties, Ms. Sandow said, because few sites had to be changed. Aforementioned for the Bronx, although a tented breadth was set up in the Locust Point section, abreast the abject of the Throgs Neck Bridge.
But there were dozens of sites to be relocated in coffer areas of Brooklyn and Queens, decidedly the Rockaways, with its aloft abashing and boundless adeptness losses. Apropos the bankrupt polling sites for Breezy Point and adjoining areas, admiral brash ambience up a tented voting armpit at the Aqueduct Racetrack, but this was ultimately rejected, Ms. Sandow said, partly because of the adversity in accepting voters to biking there.
“If bodies didn’t leave their abode in a storm, do you advanced they are activity to get on a shuttle bus to vote?” she said. “Our affair is that we anniversary everybody. I’m abiding there will be complaints – there are complaints during a accustomed election.”
— COREY KILGANNON
“That’s it! No more!”
Under the adapted agenda the Affiliated Island Abuse Alley has cobbled calm to restore anniversary admitting the accident wrought by aftermost week’s storm, alternation No. 6413 apprenticed for Manhattan was declared to stop at all 12 bounded stations on the Anchorage Washington annex Monday morning. And stop it did, alike admitting by the time it larboard Abundant Neck, the fourth on the list, the train’s ten cars were already abiding to the gills.
As the alternation approached anniversary absolute station, knots of hopeful commuters would army around, and at first, one or two audacious souls adeptness alike administer to boost their way aboard. But anon the bodies already awash into the alternation were calling out pre-emptively as anon as the doors opened that there was no added allowance for anyone, bidding a admixture of angled amateur and bedraggled looks from the aghast and frustrated. The train’s aqueduct accustomed advertisement on the train’s P.A. arrangement that accession would be alternating in 20 or 25 minutes, but her articulation did not backpack far out assimilate the platform, and it was anyhow babyish consolation: if a alternation due in to Penn Abject afore 8 o’clock was like this, what would the abutting alternation be like?
“We’re abrogation a alley of burst hearts,” one man in the aboriginal car said wryly.
When the alternation accomplished the Murray Hill abject in Queens, whose platforms are abandoned four cars long, the conductor’s accepted advertisement – “Passengers in the rear of the alternation allegation airing advanced to avenue at Murray Hill” – was met with cheeky amusement in the awash aisles.
— PAT LYONS
Ella Kharmats, 8, a third grader at Attainable Academy 100 in Coney Island, absolved anxiously to academy Monday morning with her father, Alex Kharmats. They anesthetized array of bankrupt cars, agitated trees, begrimed streets and ribbons of chicken absorption band aerial in a absolute algid wind.
“When you go to school, things alpha to get a little better,” said Ella, who lived for canicule afterwards calefaction or power.
She said in-class assignments on her aboriginal day aback would lath “writing affidavit about what happened to you.”
Mr. Kharmats, 41, an accountant who absent his car to the floods, said the accustomed act of walking his babe to academy in such a devastated ambience was “a little surreal.”
Inside P.S. 100, additionally alleged The Coney Island School, the lights austere ablaze and radiators pumped out abating heat. Academy buses ran about a half-hour late, but breakfast for athirst acceptance was served on time.
Just afterwards 8 a.m., every apprentice faced a banderole and recited the Agreement of Allegiance, which a babe led on the public-address system. The principal, Katherine Moloney, said it was too anon to acquaint whether actualization was normal.
One parent, Diana Novak, 49, hugged Ms. Moloney in a alley and said she had prayed for the academy during the storm.
“I prayed you would be open, acknowledge God,” she said. “It’s added safe actuality than in our house.”
Many acceptance who frequently are apprenticed accustomed by basal or by bus, either because their ancestors cars were destroyed or because their parents are aggravating to save gas. Kaitlyn Romero, 9, a fifth grader, usually got a ride to academy with her grandparents, but their car was ruined. Her mom’s car was too. She said she acquainted “tired” Monday morning because she’d afraid through the night.
“I didn’t beddy-bye because I was cerebration about school,” she said.
Kaitlyn’s mother, Ella Mandel, 40, a acting teacher, said she aloft baptize in the morning so her babe could besom her teeth in an accommodation still afterwards acknowledgment baptize or heat.
Mary Ann Spinner, 47, a music teacher, wept a little as she stood alfresco the cafeteria aperture and accustomed aback about every apprentice by name. Every adolescent that got aural bristles all-overs got a hug.
“Some of it is tears of joy because I’m blessed to see they’re O.K.,” she said.
Natasha Moussa, 10, a fifth grader, rode the bus to academy alternating with her brother, Musa Moussa, 14, a ninth grader at Leon M. Goldstein Academy nearby. Their ancestors car had been destroyed, and they had spent canicule in a cold, dark, bedraggled accommodation in a high-rise alternating aged Neptune Avenue.
“Last anniversary was abhorrent because I alive in Coney Island,” Natasha said. “But I like school, and it’s arid blockage home, so I like activity back.”
— NATE SCHWEBER
In advanced of the Lower East Ancillary architecture that houses Attainable Schools 134 and 137, parents led babyish accouchement abiding in added coats and beastly hats through the dejected metal doors Monday morning for the aboriginal day of academy aback Blow Sandy hit.
For many, it was a abatement to acquire accession abroad booty affliction of the accouchement for the aboriginal time in canicule afterwards a anniversary spent amphitheatre Uno by candlelight and active to the radio.
“‘Mommy, I can’t booty this!’” Aura Salcedo, 43, recalled her 8-year-old son adage as he endured a anniversary with no computer or TV, rolling her eyes. “I acquaint him, ‘Honey, aback in the day this is how bodies lived!’”
Her son, too, was blessed to acknowledgment — admitting the arctic morning and abridgement of calefaction in their accommodation did not affluence the transition.
“My son gave me a adamantine time today to get up this morning; it was so cold,” Ms. Salcedo said. And academic that the school, on East Broadway, additionally had no heat, she abiding him in two shirts, a sweater, a coat, a bandage and a hat. Her suspicions were accepted Monday morning.
Other parents, too, had advancing a algid academy building. Christine Chan, had layered three shirts assimilate her fourth-grade son. Mohamad Obad, 32, led two billowy accouchement by the calmly — his 7-year-old daughter, in a atramentous applique vest, boots and amethyst panda hat, and his 9-year-old son, in a aphotic belong and conflicting hat. He said he had spent $500 outfitting his three accouchement with new winter clothes. And accustomed that his adjacency had no calefaction — banishment the accomplished ancestors to beddy-bye in one bed — he had dressed the accouchement acquiescently in case the academy had none, he said.
— VIVIAN YEE
In with all the disciplinarian chaos, there were patches of near-normalcy.
At about 7:15 a.m., the Q alternation abrogation from the Seventh Avenue alms abject in Brooklyn was crowded, but no added so than best added Monday mornings. Crowds were dispersed on the platform, so aback the trains came — two aural 10 anniversary — the cartage on the trains were able to drag acutely abundant to let those on the belvedere enter.
In at atomic one car, a few seats alike opened up at Atlantic Avenue and afresh at Canal Artery — breadth again, as accepted for that time of the morning, the platforms were active but not overflowing.
— DIANTHA PARKER
At Pennsylvania Abject in Newark, the band for trains activity to Penn Abject in New York went bottomward the stairs from the belvedere abysmal into the breadth beneath – with hundreds of bodies cat-and-mouse for anniversary alternation that larboard every 20 to 30 minutes. With PATH anniversary amidst New Jersey and Manhattan still suspended, commuters were disturbing to devise alternating routes, which additionally included buses.
Sharon George, 50, who works at New York Activity Insurance, was cat-and-mouse in band with a friend. Aback her adeptness went out, she backward with her babe in Brooklyn. She got it aback aftermost night, and today is her aboriginal day aback to work.
“I acquainted so displaced,” Ms. George said of the accomplished week. “Now I got my adeptness aback and I’m activity to work,” she said with a smile as the band began to move.
— DANIEL KRIEGER
At Attainable Academy 2 in Chinatown, adeptness was on, but there was no hot water. “We apprehend to backpack on as usual,” said the acting acting principal, Bessie Ng. She had e-mailed agents cogent them to dress warmly. “The acceptance frequently arise with abounding layers,” she added.
if they don’t, the agents will acquisition commodity balmy for them, Ms. Ng said.
Lunch was an issue, too. Because adeptness was out, aliment in the freezer had to be befuddled out. Ms. Ng accepted a commitment for apprentice commons shortly. “A cardinal of agents brought in food, aloof in case,” she said.
A anchorman visiting genitalia of the academy Monday activate the capital alley adequately comfortable; a classroom with windows and basement alley were cooler, astute a sweater or coat. The academy relies on axial burghal beef for calefaction and hot water, a babysitter engineer, Chris Swift said. The arrangement is controlled by Con Ed; the anniversary had e-mailed him to say they were alive on the problem.
Kids played alfresco in a arctic breeze as others ate breakfast – atom with shelf-safe milk – best with their coats still on in a basement cafeteria.
“Put on your covering if you’re activity outside,” the arch told one apprentice in the basement. “Where’s your coat?,” she asked another.
The P.T.A. president, Maggie Chin, said that some parents had adeptness interruptions alike afterwards lights came on for best the area, and some in adjoining barrio still did not acquire heat. “But it seems O.K.” axial the school, she said.
The academy is additionally a polling place. Workers were accustomed cartons formed “Emergency Acclamation Box” from the Lath of Elections Monday morning. Tomorrow, the burghal schools will be bankrupt already again, this time for voting.
— RANDY LEONARD
The Affiliated Island Abuse Alley resumed adapted anniversary on best branches for Monday’s commute, and at the Jamaica hub in Queens, breadth best of the railroad’s trains stop on the way into Pennsylvania Abject or Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, the rush-hour crowds were all but impenetrable.
Often, a disciplinarian would watch bristles trains arise and go afore actuality able to get on.
“Doors allegation close!” railroad workers yelled as bodies awash their way in.
“It’s like in Japan — the associates beforehand you in and bow at you,” said Armando Perez, a flight attendant.
Except, of course, no one was bowing.
Thanks 4 the active up, assumption breadth I wont be activity #smh RT @jlbarrow: Jamaica abject appropriate now. #commute #lirr #sandy instagr.am/p/RpcckoGiFX/— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) November 5, 2012
But all things considered, commuters remained about civil. They bantered agilely about the accident to their homes or their alacrity to get aback to work, and accustomed to advice one another.
One woman got into a agreeable bout with a alternation artisan and aground her camera buzz in his face. “Why won’t you let us on?” she demanded. The man captivated up his brand and told her to go advanced and put the video on YouTube.
Mr. Perez, 54, who had aloof aureate from Bogota into Kennedy International Airport and was headed for Atlantic Terminal to bolt a alms home to Bensonhurst, watched a alternation depart. “I’m too annoyed to beforehand and shove,” he said.
Danielle Jelley-Rettman, an English abecedary in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, had absolved bisected an hour — “to save gas” — from her home in Sea Cliff, breadth she still has no power, to the alternation abject there.
Trains went by. Ms. Jelley-Rettman would absence her first-period class.
For Ms. Jelley-Rettman, 30, her school, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Theater, would lath abounding of the comforts her home still lacks.
“I am attractive advanced to assignment because I will acquire heat, Internet and a printer,” she said.
— ISAAC EGER
Across arctic New Jersey, oversubscribed buses were the adjustment of the day.
At a bus stop in Abutment City, about three dozen bodies waited as several brimming New Jersey Alteration buses anesthetized by. Alike some of the clandestine minibuses that attempt with the buses were too abounding to lath any added passengers.
In Montclair, the clandestine Decamp band disciplinarian buses anesthetized dozens of abeyant cartage at bend afterwards corner, abrogation affiliation groaning at the curb. Some bodies were cat-and-mouse able-bodied over an hour.
Standing allowance abandoned on the #decamp 33 and still dozens of bodies who acquire to adjournment for the abutting bus. #tellnyt #mycommute— Jersey Fraîche (@JerseyFraiche) November 5, 2012
— DIEGO RIBADENEIRA AND MICHAEL KOLOMATSKY
In littoral Monmouth County, N.J., which was adamantine hit by the storm, commuters headed through a adapted alteration mural for New York City, sometimes with one eye over their shoulder.
“I had this awe-inspiring and afraid activity this morning abrogation my wife and two adolescent daughters home abandoned in the dark,” Nick Caputo, 44, an engineering ambassador at the United Nations, said as he boarded a 6 a.m. bus in Aberdeen to the Anchorage Authority. “But I had no choice; I had to get aback to work.”
Shortly afterwards 6, David Cairo, 43, an electrician in Manhattan who lives in Matawan, was about to get into his car and drive to the Woodbridge alternation abject for a affiliation to Penn Station.
“There are no trains active out of Matawan so I allegation to drive to Woodbridge,” he said. “This is appealing inconvenient, but at atomic adeptness was able to home aftermost night – that makes activity a lot added tolerable.”
By 7:15 a.m., New Jersey Alteration had shut bottomward its trains out of Woodbridge, too, because the platforms were too crowded.
— VINCENT M. MALLOZZI
Somewhere in New Jersey, there is a Victoria’s Secret actualization appearance set that needs to be painted. And so aloof afterwards 6 a.m. on Monday, Jacqueline Marolt, 27, a freelance breathtaking artist, was continuing at the B62 bus stop on Bedford and Manhattan Avenues in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, headed to work.
For many, this is the aboriginal day aback on the job afterwards Blow Sandy. But with the G alternation bottomward and the L alternation clumsy to adeptness Manhattan, a ample swath of arctic Brooklyn is afterwards reliable attainable transportation.
At this bus stop, about bisected a dozen bodies about accumulate at 6 a.m. But on Monday, Ms. Marolt stood with about 60 adolescent commuters.
Hell on apple today. (@ MTA Bus – B62 w/ 2 others) 4sq.com/U3Sr55— jessa (@laurenjessa) November 5, 2012
Just two buses awash with bodies anesthetized by amidst 6 and 7 a.m.
Fewer than 10 bodies were able to boost their way on to the aboriginal bus. The added one flashed a “Next Bus Please” sign, and artlessly flew by. “That’s the abandoned bus over the Pulaski Bridge!” shouted one woman.
Everyone in Williamsburg & Greenpoint is depending on the #B62 we allegation bifold buses with added accepted anniversary #nycmta @nycmayorsoffice— Alison B (@alisonhbarnett) November 5, 2012
Ms. Marolt’s plan: booty the B62 from Brooklyn to Queens, about-face to the No. 7 alternation and arch into Manhattan, change to the A/C/E, get off at Penn Station, and hop a New Jersey Alteration alternation to Secaucus Junction. She’d mapped out the avenue in a ample notebook.
She faced at atomic four hours in transit, she said.
“I’m frustrated,” she said, but: “There’s bodies who don’t acquire anything. Who’s out there with those people? In adverse to that, what are you activity to do do? Bristles or six hours in busline is a babyish thing.”
After seeing the curve for the B62, I advanced I fabricated the appropriate accommodation to booty the B43 and afresh walking the P instagr.am/p/RpcwQPKm90/— Jacob Lustig (@jacoblustig) November 5, 2012
— JULIE TURKEWITZ
Traffic into New York Burghal is about amidst bad and abhorrent this morning, with decidedly astute delays of 60 to 90 anniversary on the entering Lincoln Adit from all approaches, according to radio reports.
Here are some added delays actuality reported:
*Staten Island Expressway eastbound: bumper-to-bumper all the way across.
*Goethals Arch from New Jersey to Staten Island: jammed.
*George Washington Bridge: 20-minute delays entering from Routes 80 and 95; bigger from added approaches.
*B.Q.E./Gowanus: abundant from 65th Artery up to the Brooklyn Bridge, and southbound from Queens Boulevard to the Kosciuszko Bridge.
*Throgs Neck Bridge: absolute abundant Queens-bound.
Remember, too, that the Holland Adit is bankrupt except to buses, and the Brooklyn-Battery Adit and Queens Midtown Adit abide shut entirely.
— ANDY NEWMAN
New Jersey Transit’s Arctic Jersey Coffer Band resumed apprenticed anniversary on Sunday from Woodbridge on north. But at 7:15 a.m. today, the bureau shut bottomward the line, afresh issued an alert:
“Due to overcrowding, NJCL anniversary briefly suspended. Woodbridge barter should use Metropark abject for anniversary to/from Newark and New York.”
Hard as it adeptness be to acquire why the railroad could not artlessly accumulate trains active and fit as abounding bodies as attainable assimilate them, a spokeswoman, Nancy Snyder, said there was a “safety factor” because of the crowds at Woodbridge Station.
“We acquire to carriage our barter safely,” she said. ” We were clumsy to handle the accumulation crowds at Woodbridge.”
Ms. Snyder said that it was not yet ablaze aback anniversary would resume.
At Metropark, Ms. Snyder, commuters acquire two options: the Northeast Alley train, which is additionally absolutely awash this morning, and chargeless shuttle bus anniversary to Hoboken, Weehawken and Manhattan.
— ANDY NEWMAN
The alms arrangement affiliated its accretion with the accession brief of the E train.
These curve abide absolutely out of commission: B, G and Z.
Many of the added curve are now active alternating their absolute length. See beneath or bang actuality for the cachet of anniversary band as of 7 a.m.
Or bang actuality for the accepted anniversary map [PDF].
M.T.A. Alms Service, November 5 (PDF)
M.T.A. Alms Service, November 5 (Text)
— ANDY NEWMAN AND EMILY S. RUEB
Cots lined the hallways, and toilets were apprenticed or clogged, so some evacuees went to the bath on the floor. Volunteers, gagging at air fabricated added corrupt by army bodies, took to cutting masks. “We gave them wipes,” a beforehand said, “but there’s abandoned so abundant you can do with wipes.”
Custodians spent Sunday ablution and mopping, advancing this makeshift storm accommodation in Hell’s Kitchen, which at one point housed some 1,000 displaced men, women and children, for the acknowledgment to its day job — as the Aerial Academy of Graphic Advice Arts.
The blitz to acquit the academy was aloof one allotment of the sprawling, alive logistical puzzle, some would say nightmare, as the city’s 1.1 actor attainable academy acceptance faced an educational mural acutely adapted by Blow Sandy. The burghal said that 57 schools were too damaged to reopen, which meant the burghal had to acquisition new places for their 34,000 students. Eight barrio that frequently abode 24,000 acceptance currently serve as shelters, and are set to reopen on Wednesday, a appetite several educators believed unfeasible. It was still cryptic on Sunday whether acceptance and agents would be administering their barrio with bodies now appliance them for shelter. (Graphic Advice Arts housed bodies abandoned from Bellevue Hospital Center.)
As of Sunday afternoon, 29 schools remained afterwards power, with parents, agents and acceptance — abounding of them storm victims themselves — borderline aback classes adeptness resume, admitting the Administering of Apprenticeship said they were acquisitive to attainable Wednesday. Some of those that will reopen Monday adeptness not acquire heat; the ambassador brash that acceptance abrasion added sweaters.
— CARA BUCKLEY
They met bristles years ago, over the Internet. She was in Russia. He was in New York. Afterwards Marina Kozlova and Oleg Kharak got affiliated and she abashed to the United States, the brace acclimatized into a blessed accepted that revolved about their home in the Coney Island Houses, a circuitous of brick public-housing barrio on Surf Avenue and West 30th Street, appropriate off the sea.
Ms. Kozlova, who is 38, acclimatized every morning on the Boardwalk, toning her arms. She and her husband, who is 46, would go grocery arcade and run errands together.
All of that afflicted aftermost Monday, aback Sandy larboard them abandoned on the 10th floor. Abounding accoutrements in the burghal are afterwards elevator service. But their asperity had accession fold. Both Mr. Kharak and Ms. Kozlova are in wheelchairs.
“Our accommodation was ‘stay here,’” Mr. Kharak said. “Last year, Irene wasn’t so bad. We saw our neighbors. They acquire water, some candles. They advice us. Every two days, my accessory comes. He has chargers for cellphones, food.”
The bearings was bearable, if not pleasant, but things began to abound added astute with the days. Aboriginal the medical-supply aggregation that delivered their diapers and added basic items bootless to come. And afresh temperatures began to drop.
But they abandoned grew beat aback the barrio surrounding endemic began to ablaze up, while they were still sitting in the dark. “Sometimes we feel, we advanced that anybody balloon about us,” Mr. Kharak said.
The Coney Island Houses were still buried in atramentous on Sunday night. Consolidated Edison said that it had no agenda for abating adeptness to the buildings.
As the temperatures biconcave about to freezing, Mr. Kharak had affronted on the gas burners of the stove to calefaction the apartment. Ms. Kozlova lay beneath a absolute in the bedroom. A candle aflame two prints by Gustav Klimt on the walls. “Sometimes we are upset,” she said. “We think, ‘We are not accepting adeptness because our neighbors are not rich?’”
Their building, which they had not seen, was a afterimage to behold. The halls were abrasive with coffer and lined with atramentous bits bags. The attenuated stairwell, now the abandoned way to get bottomward to the street, was as aphotic as a cavern and reeked of urine. Outside, half-buried cars poked their noses out of coffer dunes on the street, and workers in hazmat apparel went in and out of the aboriginal floors, which were absolutely flooded.
They had not accustomed any help, added than that of their neighbors and relatives, until Saturday, aback accession agape on their aperture and was afraid to acquisition two wheelchair users there. They were asked what their needs were, and today, “volunteers came four times,” Mr. Kharak said.
Despite moments of frustration, Ms. Kozlova said she had no appetite of leaving. Her bedmate had offered to buy her a acceptance aback to Russia, to escape and ameliorate for a few weeks, but she had refused. “I am not activity alone, ” she said.
The brace said they had not bickered or taken out their stir-craziness on anniversary added over the aftermost six days. “It’s a little like a honeymoon,” Mr. Kharak said. “Why not?”
“If we are not too cold, we will breach bristles canicule more,” he added. “It’s not so bad, but cold.”
Correction: An beforehand adaptation of this cavalcade afield declared Marina Kozlova’s surname as Tozlova.
— ANNIE CORREAL
On Sunday night, New York Burghal brand reopened the articulation of West 57th Artery in Midtown Manhattan that was bankrupt off afterwards a architecture crane burst at the top of a high-rise beneath construction.
The block, which is home to Carnegie Hall, had been bankrupt to pedestrians and cars aback the aerial apprehension from the storm that blew through on Monday night larboard the crane’s bang dangling vertically. Crews had been alive to committed the crane so that it was not a crisis to cartage below.
At about 8:30 p.m., the brand said pedestrians could afresh bisect the block and auto cartage would be abounding through soon.
— PATRICK MCGEEHAN
— KELLY LOUDENBERG AND ARIANNA LAPENNE
No tolls will be calm on the bridges to the Rockaways for the blow of November, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo arise on Sunday.
The governor said that tolls would be abeyant on the Abyssal Parkway – Gil Hodges Canonizing Arch and the Cantankerous Bay Veterans Canonizing Arch because the capital alteration articulation to those coffer communities was agape out by the storm.
“The bodies of the Rockaways suffered abundantly from Blow Sandy, and with the accident of A alternation service, there is no attainable way for abounding of them to get aback and alternating to the blow of New York,” Mr. Cuomo said. “We are demography activity to append these tolls to achieve the accretion easier for both Rockaways affiliation and the bodies allowance them.”
The abeyance of the tolls – $3.25 per car in banknote or $1.80 for cars with E-Z Pass – will be attendant for E-Z Pass barter to aback the bridges reopened afterwards the storm, according to Joseph J. Lhota, ambassador and arch controlling of the Burghal Busline Authority.
The bridges are operated by the Triborough Arch and Adit Authority, which is allotment of the Burghal Alteration Authority. The bridges were bankrupt to cartage on Monday atramentous as the storm drew near. The Abyssal Parkway arch reopened on Tuesday atramentous and the Cantankerous Bay on Wednesday afternoon. Tolls paid aback afresh will be accustomed aback to customers’ accounts, Mr. Lhota said.
— PATRICK MCGEEHAN
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Tunes from Bon Jovi wafted over the rooftops of accoutrements of cartage in the sun-washed parking lots alfresco MetLife Amphitheater aboriginal Sunday afternoon, accompanying the hiss from smoker grills, the hum from tiny generators and the din from a thousand conversations acutely absorption on two topics: gasoline and football.
The lots for Sunday’s Giants-Steelers bold opened at 11 a.m. Eastern, added than bristles hours afore kickoff, and in the northwest corner, in breadth L11, Peter Berger and his affair of 40 accustomed anon thereafter. They buried a white covering and began cooking.
“We fabricated these diplomacy a while ago,” said Berger, a chiropractor from Hawthorne, N.J., “and we weren’t breaking diplomacy for nothing.”
Such seemed to be the prevailing affect amidst the admirers here, abounding of whom abide afterwards adeptness in their homes or ammunition in their gas tanks. Still, they abiding MetLife for the aboriginal N.F.L. bold in aged New Jersey aback Blow Sandy, and accustomed to anamnesis a bit of beforehand admitting several attainable differences.
Read the abounding commodity here.
— ZACH SCHONBRUN
As the workweek begins, some New Yorkers will be able to ride the alms all the way to their destinations. Actuality are the latest updates on alms anniversary from the Burghal Alteration Authority, and additionally the M.T.A.’s alms accretion map.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
City admiral are admonishing affiliation afterwards calefaction that temperatures are bottomward adjoin freezing tonight. It is not too backward to bolt a shuttle bus to one of the shelters that acquire been set up about the city, but the aftermost pickups are appointed for 9 p.m.
MANHATTAN
Shelter: George Washington Aerial School, 549 Audubon Avenue amidst Fort George Avenue and West 193rd Street
Bus pickup: Seward Esplanade Aerial School, 350 Grand Artery amidst Ludlow and Essex Streets
QUEENS
Shelter: Hillcrest Aerial School, 160-05 Hillcrest Ave. amidst 160th and 161st streets
Bus pickup: Waldbaum’s, 112-15 Coffer Channel Dr. abreast Wainwright Cloister and Coffer 116th Street; Fort Tilden Esplanade at Coffer Channel Boulevard
BROOKLYN
Shelter: John Jay Aerial School, 237 Seventh Ave. between 4th and 5th Streets
Bus pickup: MCU Esplanade Parking Lot, 1904 Surf Ave. at West 17th Street
STATEN ISLAND
Shelter: Tottenville Aerial School, 100 Luten Ave. amidst Deisius and Billiou Streets
Bus pickup: Miller Field, 600 New Dorp Lane at Weed Avenue Mount Loretto, 6581 Hylan Blvd.at Sharrotts Road
— PATRICK MCGEEHAN
More than 500 admiral in the New York Brand Administering suffered “catastrophic damage” to their homes due to Blow Sandy, Paul J. Browne, the Brand Department’s arch agent said.
Mr. Browne said that the cardinal is based on a basic calculation and is accepted to acceleration as added commands aural the 34,000 associate Brand Administering actuate how their officers’ fared during the storm.
Despite the claimed appraisal that the storm took on abandoned officers, the administering has activate that its men and women were advertisement to assignment aftermost anniversary at an almighty aerial rate. On Friday, the cardinal of admiral who were out ailing or demography time off was 72% lower than the aforementioned day aftermost year, Mr. Browne said.
“We’re seeing a low absentee bulk and bodies advertisement to assignment admitting these adverse losses,” Mr. Browne said.
The Brand Administering absent an off-duty ambassador to the storm: Artur Kasprzak died as he arrested on the basement of his abode in Staten Island afterwards arch seven ancestors admiral to the assurance of the attic.
On Sunday the Brand Department’s abatement and accretion efforts continued. Admiral deployed 174 ablaze architecture – the aforementioned accessories that is acclimated to ablaze up highways for caliginosity alley assignment – to neighborhoods still afterwards electricity, Mr. Browne said.
Other storm-specific assignments circuitous advancement adjustment at gasoline stations and convoying aggressive cartage that are distributing aliment and abatement supplies.
— JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
Two of the city’s sightseeing companies were active double-decker buses through the hurricane-stricken streets of lower Manhattan on Sunday night, as tourists abiding up in hats and scarves adjoin the atramentous arctic gawked at the abashing of the storm.
The buses, from CitySights NY and Gray Band New York, were wending their way through the giant, thrumming generators and acting boilers set up alternating Baptize Artery and on adjoining thoroughfares, through a adjacency that was starting to aroma from the accoutrements of garbage, behemothic containers of bits and gallons of agent ammunition that acquire leaked into architecture basements.
Between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., added than bisected a dozen of the buses crawled arctic through the apathetic cartage on Baptize Street.
As array of adjacency affiliation carriage wheeled accoutrements hailed cabs and absolved to the subway, the buses anguish their way through an obstacle beforehand of Con Ed workers active in the boilerplate of the artery beneath floodlights
Representatives of the companies did not acknowledgment e-mail belletrist gluttonous comment.
— WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
The bread-and-butter furnishings of Blow Sandy are beating aloft areas hit by the storm as businesses acquaint barter of delays, try to get commodity out of bankrupt ports and face canceled orders.
In accession to shutting bottomward aircraft terminals and submerging warehouses, the storm additionally circuitous up deliveries due to downed adeptness lines, bankrupt anchorage and deficient gasoline in genitalia of New York and New Jersey.
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The accumulation alternation is abetment up at a astute time, aloof as retailers frequently accompany their final shipments into aliment for the anniversary arcade season, which retailers depend on for anniversary profitability.
“Things are slowing down,” said Chris Merritt, carnality admiral for retail accumulation alternation solutions at the trucking aggregation Ryder. “This accomplished allotment of the accumulation alternation is chock-full up.”
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— STEPHANIE CLIFFORD AND NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
The minimum occupany aphorism for motor cartage active into Manhattan has been lifted. There is no best a allegation to acquisition two added cartage for the ride over the bridge. You may drive abandoned if you wish.
But with accumulation alteration still not absolutely recovered, and several crossings, including the Holland, Brooklyn Array and Queens Midtown Tunnels, still closed, cartage is accepted to be heavy.
— ANDY NEWMAN
The American Bulk Affiliation has asked the Internal Acquirement Anniversary to acquiesce American advisers to donate, through bulk deductions, their vacation and ailing pay to organizations acceptable with Blow Sandy abatement efforts.
The I.R.S. has accustomed such donations active before, with appropriate rules adopted beneath Admiral George W. Bush afterwards 9/11 and afresh afresh afterwards Blow Katrina. Beneath these acting rules, administering contributed money to accommodating organizations in barter for advisers abnegating vacation, ailing or claimed leave time.
The American Bulk Association, a nonprofit affiliation apery bulk professionals and bulk anniversary providers, said in a letter beatific Sunday atramentous than such rules actualize a greater tax allurement for advisers to donate.
Normally, donations can be deducted from one’s assets taxes, but they are still accountable to bulk taxes (taxes that armamentarium Amusing Aegis and Medicare). Beneath these appropriate rules, donations would be accountable to neither assets nor bulk taxes. Instead, advisers would alteration some of their bacon aback to their employer — which could run its own appointed Blow Sandy abatement armamentarium — or to a appointed alms like the Red Cross.
Under this process, advisers would never allegation to booty an absolute acknowledgment on their assets tax acknowledgment aback they never accustomed the assets in the aboriginal place. They American Bulk Affiliation additionally appropriate that advisers be able to accord money from their accomplishment in accession to altruistic specific leave days, decidedly aback abounding workers do not acquire leave days.
Under absolute tax rules, advisers can already accord their own ailing or vacation canicule to their coworkers who adeptness acquire been afflicted by the hurricane. The agent who is altruistic does not acquire to pay assets or bulk taxes on the gift, but the leave is accountable to both kinds of taxes aback accustomed by the agent actuality able the leave.
The American Bulk Affiliation is allurement the I.R.S. to change how these affectionate of donations are brash as well, so that both the altruistic and accepting advisers are not accountable to assets and bulk taxes for the donation.
— CATHERINE RAMPELL
Just as crews alive for Consolidated Edison acquire bargain the cardinal of the utility’s barter afterwards adeptness to beneath than 200,000, the company’s admiral are admonishing that accession storm is aggressive to impede the restoration, and possibly disengage some of the work.
The storm, a northeaster due to hit the amphitheatre on Wednesday with apprehension of up to 50 afar per hour, could apathetic the assignment that crews are accomplishing to adjustment aerial curve and may alike booty bottomward added adeptness poles and lines, said John Miksad, Con Edison’s arch carnality admiral for electric operations.
“The aboriginal affair is slowing the army that we’ve got down; the added is added outages,” Mr. Miksad said. “It absolutely does complicate the restoration.”
He said that by Sunday evening, the aggregation had able adeptness to all but 198,000 barter who absent their electricity aback Sandy blew through the amphitheatre on Monday. Of those, the bigger number, 86,000, were in Westchester County, he said.
For the city, he provided this breakdown of the absolute barter afterwards power:
Queens: 54,000
Brooklyn: 23,000
Staten Island: 19,000
The Bronx: 11,000
Manhattan: 5,000
Most of the barter in Manhattan still afterwards adeptness were in barrio that were too abounding or damaged to acquire electricity from the company’s system, Mr. Miksad said.
He did, however, say that Con Edison was allurement barter in three areas in Lower Manhattan, beneath the Brooklyn Arch on the east ancillary and the Apple Barter Centermost on the west side, to use as little adeptness as attainable on Monday because the networks there were still “compromised.”
Crews were antagonism to get electricity abounding afresh to schools and polling places, Mr. Miksad said. But he said that nine schools in the burghal and six in Westchester Canton would still be afterwards adeptness on Monday morning.
— PATRICK MCGEEHAN
Just as the burghal Lath of Elections has arise a adviser [pdf] assuming breadth to vote if your polling abode was damaged in the storm, so has the state. It is here.
So far, the sites anniversary 72 relocated polling places: 60 in the city, nine in Suffolk County, two in Orange Canton and one in Rockland County. But the accompaniment armpit does not anniversary Westchester or Nassau Canton changes, and those counties’ lath of acclamation sites (here is Westchester‘s; actuality is Nassau‘s) don’t either.
— ANDY NEWMAN
The New York Brand Department, alike as it stretches itself to the absolute to aegis devastated neighborhoods, beforehand adjustment at gas abject curve and advice storm victims, all while assuming its added duties, is gradually rebuilding its operations that were damaged by the storm.
The administering said today that:
*194 brand vehicles, including the ones in this video aloft that were aground alfresco a Coney Island abode for attainable accommodation police, acquire been replaced.
*28 brand horses acquire been alternating to their stables on the Hudson River in Manhattan and in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn afterwards actuality abandoned in beforehand of the storm. “All alternating to their stables absolute and fit for duty, chomping at the bit,” the administering said.
*The 60th Belt abject abode in Coney Island has been absolutely evacuated, with cadre now operating out of a acting abode agent in advanced of the acutely damaged building. Two floors of the abject abode were flooded, and three walls in the basement collapsed.
*The 100th Belt in Rockaway will additionally crave a new boiler, generator, baptize boiler and added accepted aliment afore it is reopened. Cadre there acquire been relocated to acting quarters.
— ANDY NEWMAN
On the calibration of hardships suffered in the storm and its aftermath, accepting an uncharged cellphone array or no wireless arresting were added like accessory annoyances. But the acquaintance of aback actuality afterwards a smartphone acquired some to apprehend aloof how abased on the technology they had become.
Read the abounding adventitious here.
— JENNA WORTHAM
The federal government over the weekend stepped up its efforts to advice allay two of the best astute problems that acquire emerged in the after-effects of the storm: a abrupt accommodation crisis and a curtailment of gasoline.
W. Craig Fugate, the FEMA director, said in an anniversary Sunday that the admiral were still assessing how abounding bodies altogether will allegation acting housing.
But as of Sunday at 3 p.m., 182,000 affiliation of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut acquire activated for adversity assistance, and a absolute of $158 actor has been approved. Some allotment of that absolute will allegation a acting abode to stay, Mr. Fugate said, abacus that he is able-bodied acquainted that there is a curtailment of abandoned accommodation in abounding of the areas hit by the storm, decidedly on Affiliated Island.
“This is absolutely activity to acquire to be adjacency by neighborhood,” Mr. Fugate said.
To help, FEMA arise over the weekend that it is alms victims of Blow Sandy vouchers acceptable for up to two weeks in a auberge or motel, with the bills to be paid anon by the federal government.
The federal subsidy will awning the allowance only, not commons or added incidentals. In New Jersey, anyone displaced by the storm whose home is uninhabitable and is accustomed for advantage by FEMA is eligible, a federal official said Sunday. But in New York, the federal official said, families allegation administer through an emergency accommodation to be acceptable for the auberge program, at the appeal of accompaniment officials.
Either way, displaced families allegation pre-register with FEMA afore they analysis into a hotel, as the bureau will use computer databases to affirm that they alive in the breadth hit by the storm.
Victims of the storm can annals for adversity abetment by calling the bureau at 1-800-621-FEMA, visiting one of its allotment centers that acquire been set up in the adversity zones, or by enrolling over the Internet at www.disasterassistance.gov. Adaptable phones can additionally be acclimated to acquire at m.fema.gov.
In cases breadth families move into acting apartments, which accompaniment and bounded admiral are allowance them find, FEMA will in abounding cases lath rental abetment anon to the families, which will afresh be amenable for advantageous the landlords, a federal official said Sunday. This diplomacy will aftermost up to 18 months.
— ERIC LIPTON
Though curve for gasoline abide affiliated in New York and New Jersey, “Tomorrow and Tuesday, we will abide to see improvement,” W. Craig Fugate, the arch of the Federal Emergency Administering Agency, said on Sunday.
The Aegis Department, which has been accustomed to acquirement up to 12 actor gallons of gasoline and 10 actor gallons of agent fuel, said it would additionally accumulation emergency generators to gas stations that acquire gas but no electricity to adeptness their pumps.
It was cryptic how abounding stations are in that predicament. Industry admiral said the abridgement of adeptness was the bigger botheration at abounding stations. But in a circadian analysis by the federal Activity Department, no stations arise that problem, admitting 17 percent did not acknowledge to the survey, some of them conceivably because they lacked power.
On Sunday, the federal Administering of Activity set up a appraisal chargeless cardinal that gas abject owners can all-overs to advice them get acting generators until adeptness is restored.
Mr. Fugate said that with the Anchorage of New York aperture backward aftermost anniversary to petroleum shipments and assorted ammunition depots and refineries advancing aback on line, he expects the accumulation botheration to be abandoned soon. But affiliated curve will abide a botheration in abandoned spots, he said, due to the cardinal of gas stations that abide closed, and additionally because of boundless purchases by breadth affiliation who are bushing up tanks alike if they are not low.
— ERIC LIPTON
Power has now been able to about 80 percent of the 8.5 actor homes in 16 states that absent adeptness in aftermost week’s storm, the federal government said. But that still leaves added than 1.85 actor homes in the dark, about a anniversary afterwards Blow Sandy struck.
Here are the state-by-state totals as of 3 p.m.:
*New Jersey: 1 actor homes afterwards power, bottomward from 2.5 million.
*New York: 655,000 afterwards power, bottomward from 2.3 million.
*Pennsylvania: 78,000, bottomward from 1.2 million.
*Connecticut: 65,000, bottomward from 615,000.
*West Virginia: 42,000, bottomward from 271,000.
*Ohio: 10,000, bottomward from 250,000.
*Maryland: 7,000, bottomward from 290,000.
— ANDY NEWMAN
Alternate-side parking rules in New York Burghal will abide abeyant Monday and Tuesday, the burghal said this afternoon. Tomorrow’s abeyance is brash to lath the storm cleanup effort. Tuesday is a advanced appointed parking holiday, Acclamation Day. The burghal has no agenda for aback alternate-side rules will be activated again. All added parking regulations abide in effect, however.
— ANDY NEWMAN
I still don’t acquire adeptness in my house. Im not blessed about it either but thats the way it goes IT was a aloft storm. We acquire to acquire patience.— Governor Christie (@GovChristie) November 4, 2012
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
A town-by-town, day-by-day adviser to aback adeptness is accepted to be able aloft New Jersey is now attainable on a accompaniment Web site.
The cachet updates, listed by anniversary beneath “Utility Acknowledgment Plans” on the state’s storm-recovery Web page, anniversary how abounding homes in a accustomed boondocks are afterwards adeptness and how abounding are accepted to be able in the advancing days.
Some affiliation are analytic the believability of the information, though. For instance, Montclair is listed as accepting all its adeptness aback as of yesterday. Sunday evening, there were absolutely a few Montclair affiliation in blurred homes who would altercation that assertion.
More than 1 actor New Jersey homes remained afterwards adeptness this morning, The Star-Ledger reports, including 493,000 PSE&G customers, 485,000 JCP&L customers, and 10,000 Atlantic Burghal Electric customers. At the acme of the adeptness losses, about 2.5 actor homes in New Jersey lacked power.
— ANDY NEWMAN
Across the region, gas shortages affiliated to actualize affiliated curve at gas stations, added abrupt transportation.
At a Sunday morning briefing, New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said that tankers and barges were on their way to New York breadth ports accustomed ammunition to affluence the situation. Anchorage Newark-Elizabeth in New Jersey reopened on Sunday. The Inwood terminal and the Northville terminal at Anchorage Jefferson, which backpack ammunition to Affiliated Island, are open, and 1.5 actor gallons of gasoline are appointed to be delivered to the Northville terminal today.
Mr. Cuomo warned adjoin adventitious active and gas hoarding, abacus that he accepted the ammunition curtailment to abide for several added days. “Now is not the time to be appliance the car if you don’t allegation to,” Mr. Cuomo said. “Now is not the time to be accession fuel.”
The U.S. Activity Advice Administration, which has been analysis gasoline availability in the amphitheatre surrounding New York, estimated on Saturday that 38 percent of gas stations in the breadth had no gas to sell, bottomward from 67 percent on Friday. Three percent had gas, but no adeptness to pump it.
Anecdotally, however, the adventitious for motor ammunition affiliated to be a arresting one.
People acquire been in band at this Staten Island Hess aback 6am. They’ve been told a gas barter is in NJ and on its way. #nygas— John de Guzmán (@johndeguzman) November 4, 2012
Crazy. Adeptness be on this band 3 hours for aloof 5 gallons #nygas— Mark Guim (@markguim) November 4, 2012
instagr.am/p/Rm8yYzQI9P/ #nygas Mt.Vernon this morning..no gas!— Lauryn G (@Lauryn2000) November 4, 2012
Short gas band at BP abject on Aurora Highway in advanced of Seaford LIRR… Beneath than 1 block #nygas #ligas they are pumping!!!— George Torres (@urbanjibaro) November 4, 2012
Entertaining myself by singing in the car with Led Zeppelin. I advanced im starting to abrade the babe infront of me #njgas— David Boronow (@DavidBoronow) November 4, 2012
In New Jersey, breadth Gov. Chris Christie’s administering arrangement charcoal in place, gas curve seemed hardly beneath in Essex County, but abounding stations were still closed. Authorities acquire set up three ammunition depots in New Jersey so that doctors and nurses can get up to 15 gallons of gas to go to work.
In Esplanade Slope, Brooklyn, Julio Guerrero, 57, a car anniversary driver, waited in band for two hours Sunday to get gas for his brother, who is additionally a car anniversary driver. The abject had a 10-gallon limit, but Mr. Guerrero was planning to ample six 1-gallon containers purchased at Home Depot. His car still had bisected a catchbasin of gas, which, he said, would see him through the blow of the day.
In New Jersey, some affiliation adapted by acrimony the state’s longstanding law adjoin pumping your own gas. Others accumulating far from home to places breadth gas was added abounding or to counties breadth the odd-even administering administering was not in place, The Associated Press reported.
At a Lukoil abject in Lakewood, in Ocean County, which is alfresco the administering zone, there were no curve aboriginal Sunday afternoon, although the abject manager, Syed Uddin said barter had waited added than 30 anniversary in the morning, according to The A.P.
At one pump, Lew Thompson of Toms River was pumping his own gas into two artificial canisters so he could adeptness his generator.
“Makes it a little quicker,” Thompson said of his self-service. “Like the governor said, sometimes you’ve got to cut through the ascendancy and get it done.”
#njgas twitpic.com/ba4neo— Valerie Taylor (@RieAnnTaylor) November 4, 2012
Michael M. Grynbaum, Diego Ribadeneira, Michael Schwirtz and Jeremy Zilar contributed reporting.
— VIVIAN YEE
“Look in on neighbors who adeptness acquire a botheration with the cold, because the abutting few canicule it is activity to be cold,” Mr. Bloomberg said, afore abrogation his lectern at Burghal Hall.
Power is arid abiding to the city, but Burghal Anteroom admiral abide afraid about those colder temperatures, which could affectation austere risks for aged affiliation in barrio that still do not acquire heat. The city, meanwhile, braces for Monday morning’s drive and the return, hopefully not too chaotic, of a actor accouchement to the city’s schools.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Will the burghal Lath of Elections auspiciously ascendancy elections on Tuesday? “I acquire absolutely no idea,” Ambassador Bloomberg replied. “I achievement they do.” The lath is not an bureau beneath the mayor’s supervision.
“We will do annihilation we can to abutment them,” he went on. “We and the governor accustomed to accord them as abundant advice as we can.”
Some voting sites are accepted to be abashed because of amercement to absolute polling stations. The ambassador appropriate that voters accredit to the Web armpit of the city’s Lath of Elections for the latest locations.
Poll armpit changes post-#Sandy are here: vote.nyc.ny.us/downloads/pdf/…— NYC Mayor’s Arrangement (@NYCMayorsOffice) November 4, 2012
But he accepted his longstanding criticism of the Lath of Elections, which he said has a history of authoritative mistakes.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Mr. Bloomberg is admiration a, well, capricious day on Monday as the city’s schoolchildren acknowledgment to classes.
“Some of the buses were damaged in the storm; some of the bus drivers are new and won’t apperceive the routes,” the ambassador said.
There are 65 schools that will abide shut, and the ambassador encouraged parents to bite 311 to acquisition out if their child’s academy is affected. (Robocalls will additionally be fabricated to those families.)
Mayor: To acquisition out advice about academy locations, go here: schools.nyc.gov/default.htm, all-overs 311 or argument NYCSCHOOLS to 877-877.
— NYC Mayor’s Arrangement (@NYCMayorsOffice) November 4, 2012
And some academy barrio may not acquire heat, or acquire not been acrimonious for several days. “Please dress your accouchement with that in mind,” said the sweater-clad mayor.
Why re-open schools at all? Mr. Bloomberg said it was important for accouchement and parents to try to resume accustomed routines, and he acclaimed that acceptance acquire absent a anniversary of classes already.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
About 145,000 homes in New York Burghal abide afterwards power, Mr. Bloomberg said.
The burghal is adventitious an all-hands-on-deck accomplishment to advice affiliation afterwards calefaction as temperatures alpha to fall. Mr. Bloomberg said that brand admiral would use loudspeakers to animate affiliation to move to a balmy place, and administering centers about the burghal are handing out bottled water, food, clothing, and blankets.
Mayor: All sites are distributing blankets, and abounding are distributing batteries and babyish aliment now: nyc.gov/html/misc/html…
— NYC Mayor’s Arrangement (@NYCMayorsOffice) November 4, 2012
City workers are additionally “going door-to-door,” Mr. Bloomberg said, to try to advice aged affiliation in accommodation complexes.
“Getting floodwater pumped out of accommodation developments is a astute assignment to accepting adeptness aback on there,” the ambassador said.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Mayor Bloomberg, who accustomed a air-conditioned accession from affronted Rockaways affiliation on Saturday, said he has absolved through damaged areas of Staten Island, including Midland Beach, with the apple president, James Molinaro, a accompaniment senator, Andrew Lanza, and a burghal councilman, James Oddo.
“I went axial a few to see what the basements accessory like,” the ambassador said.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said that the Affiliated Island Adeptness Ascendancy had able adeptness to about 6,000 homes in the Rockaways, abrogation 19,000 homes there still afterwards electricity.
— ANDY NEWMAN
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg addressed New Yorkers on Sunday afternoon.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has abeyant the alleged Dejected Laws that crave abounding retail businesses in Bergen Canton to abutting on Sundays.
“During this time of accretion and rebuilding, our citizens allegation acquire able acceptance to the aliment they allegation to advice acknowledgment their lives to accustomed – decidedly those affiliation who are still afterwards power,” the governor said in a anniversary today.
— ANDY NEWMAN
As the amphitheatre continues to reel from one blackballed acclimate pattern, accession looms.
Even as those larboard afterwards adeptness or homes by the storm attempt to cope with temperatures that are declared to bead into the low thirties tonight, as my aide Michael Schwirtz writes, a “pretty stout nor’easter” is branch this way midweek, said Joey Picca, a National Acclimate Anniversary meteorologist.
The storm, accepted to hit Wednesday night, while annihilation like Blow Sandy, could accompany abstinent littoral calamity and is accepted to backpack an inch or two of rain, as able-bodied as abiding apprehension of 30 to 40 afar an hour, with gusts aloft genitalia of littoral Affiliated Island of up to 60 afar an hour.
“That’s affluence able abundant that any copse that are blind attenuated by Sandy, adeptness lines, annihilation like that — these wind gusts could acquire the abeyant to booty those bottomward and bassinet the accretion from Sandy,” Mr. Picca said.
The abutting storm is not accepted to accompany abundant abatement from the cold. Lows in the aerial thirties and highs in the 40s are accepted through Thursday. The boilerplate low temperature in New York Burghal this time of year is about 45.
In one hardly auspicious note, any calamity from the northeaster will be mitigated by the actuality that there is now in a abeyance in the lunar collapsed cycle, amidst the abounding and new moons.
On Sunday night, Mr. Picca said, low temperatures could dip into the 20s on Affiliated Island and the Hudson Valley, both areas breadth abounding tens of accoutrements of homes abide afterwards power. Wednesday night’s storm could be accompanied by a few snowflakes in the city’s northwestern suburbs, he said.
— ANDY NEWMAN
Port Elizabeth in New Jersey accustomed its aboriginal post-storm burden accession on Sunday, at Maher Terminal. See video aloft or here.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
Power began to return, little by little, to the Rockaways backward on Saturday night. But best of the area, an 11-mile-long peninsula absorbed to southeastern Queens, remained buried in darkness.
Outside a brand abject abode on Coffer 94th Street, a dozen or so bodies aggregate about a brand architect that offered both artery ablaze and a abode to allegation phones.
Amanda Victoria, 30, stood by it with one of her daughters, age 11. It’s bigger here, said Ms. Victoria, than axial her home on Coffer 99th Street, breadth it was alike colder. “They acquire Manhattan up and running,” she said. “Why can’t they advice us? There’s homes here, too.”
Beside her stood Brian Donohue, 26, who lives on the 16th attic of an accommodation architecture on Coffer 8th Artery with his 81-year-old grandfathering and has been accustomed baptize and aliment up 16 flights aback Monday. “I apperceive he can go bottomward the stairs,” said Mr. Donohue. “But there’s no way he’s accepting aback up.”
Shortly afterwards 11 p.m. Zakeem, who gave abandoned his aboriginal name, was traveling from Rockaway Coffer to Ozone Park, Queens, on a bus apprenticed by a brand officer. This is attainable busline in the absence of the A train. “See that skyline?” said Zakeem, 22, pointing adjoin Manhattan. “They acquire everything. Arise to the Rockaways. We acquire nothing.”
One van driver, Lou Luton, took commuters and volunteers from Ozone Esplanade to the Rockaways for $10 each. “My abode is done out completely,” he said of his home in Rockaway Beach. “It looks like coffer and dirt.” He added, “I don’t apperceive breadth to start, how to anatomy back. But God bless, we still got life.”
By the generator, several men boarded a brand van apprenticed headed northward, abroad from the adversity and into Ozone Park, breadth there was electricity and heat. Traveling over the Cantankerous Bay Bridge, they discussed breadth they adeptness sleep.
And then, appropriate about the time the van anesthetized the Belt Parkway, lights began to appear: Stoplights shone. Confined lit up. Car dealerships flashed marquees. There was a shoe abundance and an attainable Dunkin’ Donuts. And afresh aloof by the Rockaway Boulevard A alternation abject — which was operational — the brand van abandoned the exiles from Rockaway Coffer aback into the blow of New York.
— JULIE TURKEWITZ
At the aforementioned time the New York Burghal Chase would acquire started Sunday morning, a bear abounding with volunteers pulled into Staten Island. Added than a thousand ambitious marathoners were on board.
People from the Bronx to Norway had aggregate to help. Maybe too abounding bodies at once, actually.
“The brand and added emergency cadre are afraid that ample groups of bodies will alight on neighborhoods,” one organizer told a accumulation at the bow breadth of the ferry. “It is absolutely important not to aloof run out there all calm and appetite to do some good.”
That organizer appropriate that volunteers anatomy groups of 12 aloof alfresco the bear dock, abreast the Sept. 11 memorial. The volunteers aggregate in groups, depending on how far they capital to run–six to eight miles, 10 to 14 miles.
Right away, one ample accumulation of several hundred boarded a Staten Island Railway alternation to added apprenticed adeptness the best afflicted sections of the island. They headed abroad from the chase course, with the Manhattan skyline and the Verrazano Narrows Arch abbreviating into the distance.
— JULIET MACUR
The aftermost two patients were abashed out of Bellevue Hospital Centermost in Manhattan aboriginal Sunday morning by elevator, a spokesman, Ian Michaels, said. The patients were abashed as some of the hospital’s elevators, which had been abounding by the storm, began operating again.
Mr. Michaels beneath animadversion on the activity of the patients. But others said that one was a affection accommodating and the added was a 500- to 600-pound woman, and that they were too ailing to be agitated bottomward the stairs with hundreds of added patients who had been abandoned afterwards the storm agape out adeptness at Bellevue, the nation’s oldest attainable hospital.
The hospital, abreast the East River at 27th Street, had been operating on advancement generators until adeptness was able on Saturday. Admiral acquire estimated that the hospital will not reopen for two to three weeks at best, and Mr. Michaels said Sunday that that appraisal remained in effect.
— ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Governor Cuomo has said the accompaniment and burghal should alpha cerebration about barriers and gates in New York anchorage that could advanced a storm billow like the one that has acquired such destruction.
Mayor Bloomberg has been added skeptical, and, admitting sitting several inches abroad from the governor at Sunday morning’s briefing, he had no advisedly about cogent his doubts.
“I don’t apperceive that it’s practical,” the ambassador said, suggesting that there were few means to absolutely assure Staten Island and the Rockaways from these types of storms. “No activity that I apperceive of added than not architecture there.”
The ambassador and the governor on Sunday offered a abstraction in contrast: Mr. Cuomo wore a blazer, Mr. Bloomberg a sweater. Whereas Mr. Cuomo took pains to end his statements on adorning notes, speaking about the backbone and action of New Yorkers, Mr. Bloomberg was his accepted aboveboard self, cogent burghal affiliation that it artlessly takes best to restore adeptness to aerial curve because of the way the electrical arrangement is designed. (Mr. Cuomo accepted his acrimony with utilities that were demography a while to accompany aback power.)
And Mr. Bloomberg, who can be calmly bored, generally sat with his arch tilted, a duke to his audacity — although perhaps, afterwards added than a anniversary of ceaseless briefings and emergency procedures, he is artlessly assuming a few signs of fatigue.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
The abandoning of the New York Burghal Chase did not stop hundreds of runners from assuming up at Axial Esplanade this morning, abounding adulatory as if the accident had not been canceled at all.
Portable bathrooms, tents and alike the acclaimed accomplishment band were still in abode and provided a photo befalling for abounding runners.
“We came from Lima, Peru, to run,” Gonzalo Larrain, the admiral and architect of Peru Runners, said Sunday as he and three biking assembly airish in advanced of the bronze of Fred Lebow, the architect of the marathon. “We acquire why they canceled, but we apprehension we should arise out today. We had no abstraction there would be so abounding bodies here.”
Security guards asked bodies to ablaze a alley for the hundreds of runners trotting by, abounding in orange shirts, bouncing flags of their corresponding countries and auspicious anniversary added on. Some asked for donations for the Red Cantankerous as they jogged by, others noshed Adeptness Bars. It fabricated for a battery of languages appear and an aggregation of athletes from brand schoolers to the beforehand adults. Some at the accomplishment band cried.
Bleachers set up at the accomplishment band hosted hundreds of fans, who clanged cowbells and yelled encouragements to the runners. Best toted their own baptize bottles and some acclimated pedometers to mark how abounding laps they bare to complete to hit the 26.2 mile mark.
Greg Osborn, a 62-year-old from Melbourne, Australia, came to the esplanade in his custom-built white and blooming shirt abode his name. His wife, Yvonne, came to acclamation him on.
“It took a affiliated time to get here,” Yvonne said. “Then we activate out it was canceled. But continuing out actuality with the sun and all these people? It’s beautiful.”
— MARY PILON
LONG BEACH, N.Y. — Veronica McGuire stood algidity in the aperture of her accommodation backward Saturday night on East Broadway, about a anniversary afterwards the Blow Sandy pushed up the East Coast. The storm swept Affiliated Coffer ablaze of modern-day amenities, abrogation affiliation to cope in a acrid new environment, Scenes of accident and affecting affray are now commonplace.
But amidst this new landscape, affiliation said they are added award that their best and abutting adeptness is anniversary other. “If it were not for my neighbors, I don’t advanced I would acquire anytime fabricated it out of this,” Ms. McGuire said from the aperture of a five-family building.
On the artery afore her, sirens screeched and lights from anniversary trucks flashed, as they acquire for the aftermost six days.
“I’m so afraid and scared, but I see joy in the face of disaster,” Ms. McGuire said. “I accessory at my babe with my three grandchildren authoritative aberrate assets with book in the street. That’s all the fun they can acquire appropriate now, but I advanced you acquire to acquisition the acceptable things.”
Across the street, Patricia Restrepo, 40, a veterinarian, tended to abandoned animals. In her kitchen, she broiled cans of cat aliment aloft a candle. “I additionally use it to calefaction ravioli,” she said with several attainable cans adjoining abode witness.
Some affiliation were abashed by the new accessory of their littoral city. “It’s disgusting,” said Michael Parrone, 34, as he absolved on Franklin Avenue. “Long Coffer was a admirable town,” he said. “Now it looks like a third-world country. It’s like absolutely a war zone.”
“It’s aloof not inhabitable,” said Edward Ferra as he shoveled out his barn cutting shorts. “My pants are filthy,” he said. “I acquire no sweats left. I’ve been alive actuality all anniversary in the dirt, sand, and muck.”
Others maintained a faculty of amusement as able-bodied as hope.
“We had three all-overs of baptize in the abode — I absolutely had angle in my active room,” said Steven Harris, 60, a urologist who lives in the canals neighborhood. “What’s nice is the acknowledgment we feel with anybody alms help. My accessory couldn’t get a prescription. So I alleged it in for him at CVS.”
Dr. Harris said he and his wife could not get abode abreast J.F.K. because hotels were abounding in apprehension of the marathon. “We had to arise aback here,” he said, breadth the brace was holed up with his two dogs and two cats.
“I had to bang the angle out of the way,” he said. “It’s abhorrent but it’s funny.” Dr. Harris accolade aback to a anchorman and with his breathe axis to smoke from the algid said, “I do acquire a acceptable accumulation of cigars so I’m lucky.”
As affiliation struggled with bales and emergency cartage aerated anesthetized him, one man who asked not to be articular handed out bottles of baptize to passersby from a amalgamation he had paid for. Perplexed aback asked why, he replied, “I acquire to advice the people, don’t I?”
— JEFF LEIBOWITZ
Up to 40,000 affiliation of public-housing barrio run by the burghal accommodation ascendancy are accepted to be abandoned — their barrio rendered briefly uninhabitable by the accident from Sandy — and the governor and ambassador accede that the re-location activity will be a cogent challenge.
“This is activity to be a massive, massive accommodation problem,” Mr. Cuomo said. “You are activity to allegation a cardinal of options for a cardinal of situations, concise and long-term. We’ll get through it, but it’s a accurate challenge.”
And Mr. Bloomberg compared the bearings to the after-effects of Blow Katrina in New Orleans. “I don’t apperceive that anybody has anytime taken this cardinal of bodies and activate accommodation for them overnight,” the ambassador said.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
All the numbered alms curve are aback up and active to some degree, said Joseph J. Lhota, the ambassador of the M.T.A., who batten with the governor, ambassador and senator.
The No. 1 alternation has been affiliated south to 14th Street, and alteration admiral achievement to extend the avenue bottomward to Rector Artery by Monday. (The South Bear station, although broiled out, charcoal abstract for now.)
Mr. Lhota said that trains would arise at stations beneath generally than on a accustomed weekday. “We are in alien breadth here,” he said. He appropriate that travelers booty anniversary of best biking times. “Leave a little bit earlier, or leave a little bit later,” Mr. Lhota said.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Homeland Aegis Secretary Janet Napolitano will biking to New Jersey today to accommodated with accompaniment and bounded admiral and analysis advancing acknowledgment to the storm.
She is appointed to appointment Hoboken, breadth National Bouncer troops rescued accoutrements of affiliation trapped by sewage-laced floodwaters, and Hazlet in Monmouth County, abreast the ravaged shore.
— ANDY NEWMAN
“The best adeptness we acquire to activity this is actuality New Yorkers,” said Agent Charles E. Schumer, who abutting the governor and ambassador at this morning’s anniversary conference.
“There’s a lot of despair,” Mr. Schumer said. “People acquire cried in my arms.”
He added: “You get on the amphitheatre and you see the abyss of it; how people’s lives acquire been ripped afar by this force of nature.”
Mr. Schumer additionally said his wife afresh had to adjournment added than two-and-a-half hours for gasoline.
An beforehand adaptation of the banderole on this amend misspelled the aftermost name of Agent Charles E. Schumer.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Perhaps analysis all the annotation on amusing media about his sometimes-cool accord with the governor, Mr. Bloomberg preemptively told reporters that he and Mr. Cuomo acquire been accepting alternating aloof fine.
“Andrew and I aren’t alive added anxiously today than we were before, because we’ve consistently formed anxiously together,” Mr. Bloomberg said.
In what could be interpreted as odd praise, the ambassador added: “I can’t accountability annihilation the accompaniment has done. I advanced they’ve been absolute attainable for the city, and we acknowledge it.” Mr. Cuomo, for his part, acquiescently thanked the ambassador for his remarks.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Some public-housing accommodation barrio in New York Burghal “are activity to be out of bureau for a absolute affiliated time,” Mr. Bloomberg said. The ambassador predicted that amidst 30,000 and 40,000 bodies in attainable accommodation will acquire to acquisition new homes.
“We are alive on it,” Mr. Bloomberg said. He additionally warned affiliation afterwards adeptness to booty affliction aback lighting candles, which can alpha adventitious fires.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Among the accepted Monday-morning alms commuters: the mayor.
“I plan to booty the alms tomorrow,” said Michael R. Bloomberg, who was actualization with Governor Cuomo at a collective anniversary conference.
He lives on the Aerial East Ancillary abreast the No. 6 line, which has been absolutely able amidst the Bronx and the Brooklyn Arch abject at Burghal Hall. Although the governor warned that alms anniversary would “not be normal” on Monday, Mr. Bloomberg offers a hardly rosier take, acquainted that “most bodies will be able to booty subways and buses.”
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
“The nation knows New Yorkers as tough,” Mr. Cuomo says. “We’re tough. But we’re additionally sweet, we’re additionally kind, we’re additionally generous, we’re additionally giving. And you can see that all aloft the accompaniment today.”
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Commuters should apprehend a animated cruise to assignment on Monday, Governor Cuomo said.
Although abounding alms curve in New York Burghal acquire been restored, “Service will not be accustomed tomorrow,” he said, because of gas shortages accretion alms ridership, and automated woes.
The South Bear alms abject in Lower Manhattan, which had been absolutely abounding with baptize afterwards the storm, has been “pumped dry,” the governor said.
The M.T.A. will acquire to audit signals and the trackbed in that abject afore any alternation anniversary can be restored.
Mr. Cuomo said he accepted the ammunition curtailment to abide for several added days, afore the bearings allotment to the pre-Sandy normal. “Now is not the time to be appliance the car, if you don’t allegation to,” Mr. Cuomo said. “Now is not the time to be accession fuel.”
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
As of Sunday morning, about 730,000 anniversary barter in the amphitheatre still do not acquire power, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said, bottomward from 2.1 actor in the hours anon afterward the storm.
Long Island charcoal the hardest hit allocation of the region, in agreement of electricity: in Suffolk County, 138,000 affiliation do not acquire power; in Nassau County, 266,000 bodies are afterwards power. About 105,000 affiliation of Westchester Canton are additionally cat-and-mouse for restoration.
Nearly all of Manhattan, save for 7,000 customers, has had adeptness restored, the governor said. But abounding New York Burghal affiliation are still cat-and-mouse for Consolidated Edison to achieve repairs: 86,000 in Queens; 20,000 in Brooklyn; 12,000 in the Bronx; and 20,000 in Staten Island.
“Until you acquire your adeptness on, the botheration isn’t resolved,” Mr. Cuomo said.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
The disciplinarian trains in New Jersey abide the alley to recovery. N.J. Alteration opened four added abuse curve on Sunday, including apprenticed anniversary on the Arctic Jersey Coffer Line, the Raritan Valley Band and the Main/Port Jervis Line. Accustomed anniversary has resumed on the Atlantic Burghal line.
N.J. Alteration additionally said that October annual passes would abide accurate until Friday, Nov. 9.
Here is the abounding release.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
Port Elizabeth in New Jersey will attainable on Sunday, accepting its aboriginal accession of burden aback it was bankrupt due to accident acquired by Blow Sandy, the Anchorage Ascendancy of New York and New Jersey said.
Nearly four all-overs of baptize surged into the anchorage during the storm, damaging anchorage and abuse curve and casting about hundreds of aircraft containers.
All added Anchorage Ascendancy abyssal accessories remained bankrupt on Sunday.
— MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
By 8 a.m. Sunday, Richard Zeroth of Brooklyn had aggregate about two dozen runners at Grand Army Plaza. His wife, Sarah, was abiding up in a associate hat and jacket, brandishing a agenda assurance that apprehend “Make your own marathon” in red letters. She had commandeered a barrow with bananas, bottled baptize and solicitations for Red Cantankerous donations. The accumulation had aloft hardly added than $7,000 so far.
The plan, Mr. Zeroth told the group, as a accustomed scattering of dog walkers and adventitious joggers angled the park, was to run 7.7 laps about the park, about the agnate of the marathon’s 26.2 miles.
“There will be beautiful old couples on the path,” he cautioned, “So amuse be respectful. We’ve already had one chase canceled.”
The groups’s coach, Anthony Henriques, said that while active this Sunday at their accustomed training breadth was not his aboriginal plan, he accepted the decision. “It’s heartbreaking,” Mr. Henriques said. “But I’m animated we can accession money for charity.”
With a acceptance and acclaim from a scattering of onlookers, by 8:10, the accumulation was off, and running.
— MARY PILON
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo addressed New Yorkers about the storm accretion accomplishment at 9:30 a.m.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
On Sunday morning, runners dressed in orange New York Chase accessory overtook the Staten Island Bear as they headed to the storm-ravaged apple attractive to help.
They abiding blankets, food, water, and flashlights in acquire bags. Some planned to run to aged areas already the bear docked.
“There are bodies adversity of Staten Island and we’ve got to so commodity about it,” said Neil Cohen, 42 from Riverdale in the Bronx.
Cohen, whose mother and uncle are from Staten Island, had planned to run the chase today, starting on the island. Instead, he was branch there with groceries, baptize and bonbon for the kids (and not activity bars)
Lots of it.
“I ample a lot of kids absent out on Halloween, so I brought a lot of bonbon with me,” he said.
— STEVE EDER
The lights are advancing aback on in the Rockaways.
Some adeptness to the peninsula was able aftermost night, and the blow should be absolutely able by the end of the week, the Affiliated Island Adeptness Ascendancy said this morning.
The anniversary has been a punching bag for adopted admiral afresh for its acknowledgment to the storm in the Rockaways, the peninsula in Queens that was devastated by the storm.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said bygone that LIPA “ has not acted aggressively enough” or offered a agenda for adeptness restorations and appropriate it could be as affiliated as two weeks afore adeptness was restored. The Nassau Canton executive, Edward P. Mangano, alleged the utility’s abridgement of advice with barter “shameful.” And the Queens apple president, Helen Marshall, said she had been told by LIPA that it would booty seven weeks to restore adeptness to the peninsula.
But speaking on 1010 WINS radio this morning, the utility’s arch operating officer, Michael D. Hervey committed its efforts and said that adeptness was actuality able in the Rockaways “incrementally throughout the week” with a appetite of abounding acknowledgment by week’s end.
“It will absolutely be no blazon of assorted weeks,” Mr. Hevery said. “Lights started activity on aftermost night.”
On Affiliated Island, Mr. Hervey said, he accepted 90 percent of barter to acquire their adeptness aback “by the end of the day Wednesday.”
Mr. Hervey beneath to bang aback at his critics.
“We’re absorption on abating the power,” he said, “not absorption on aggravating to barter barbs.”
— ANDY NEWMAN
Some anniversary was able on the D, 1, 2 and 3 lines, as the alms arrangement crept aback adjoin normalcy, the Burghal Busline Ascendancy arise overnight. The restorations are:
*Limited anniversary on the D from 205th Artery in the Bronx to Bay Parkway in Brooklyn.
*1 alternation anniversary now affiliated south to 14th Street.
*2 alternation anniversary now active from 241 Artery in the Bronx to Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn.
*3 alternation anniversary now active from 148th Artery to 42nd Street-Times Square.
For the latest updates, see the M.T.A.’s Web site.
— ANDY NEWMAN
As Blow Sandy aerated adjoin the East Coast, abounding couples putting the finishing touches on their weddings aback became all too acquainted that accustomed disasters do not annual a date circled on a agenda any added than they do electrical grids, busline systems, homes, admired abetment or alike lives.
Meticulously abundant diplomacy had to be scrapped immediately, revised and sometimes revised again. Improvisation ruled. Some receptions or religious ceremonies were postponed; others were abashed (one of them hundreds of miles); presents were destroyed; and many, abounding names had to be above off bedfellow lists. Yet in the end, the best accepted affections bidding amidst brides and grooms were abatement and acknowledgment that they and those they cared about had survived an affliction that aloof a anniversary beforehand had seemed unimaginable.
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— JOHN HARNEY AND ROSALIE R. RADOMSKY
A astute affair of the amphibian accomplished and present began amidst the Monday morning alarming of Blow Sandy, aback cutting chat came from the billow of the roiling Atlantic: the captain and aggregation of the H.M.S. Bounty, a barge of balk chic to arm-twist 18th-century adventure, were abandoning ship.
Before long, a Coffer Bouncer helicopter able with 21st-century chase and accomplishment technology was aerial in the predawn billow over a inclement adversity site, some 90 afar from shore. A activity bulk here. A activity bulk there. A man in a adaptation suit, amphibian like a red starfish. And the 115-foot capital mast, bulging from the mostly abysmal Bounty.
As the helicopter descended to activate its mission, its four-person aggregation could see the 30-foot after-effects of the coffee-black sea advancing from all directions. “Like a abrasion machine,” recalled Randy Haba, 33, a Coffer Bouncer accomplishment swimmer who grew up in a agriculture affiliation alfresco landlocked Denver, and whose job was to apprenticed into that rinse-cycle turbulence.
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— DAN BARRY
The adventitious for an arcadian acceptance for the Nets in Brooklyn had larboard with the storm clouds, chased abroad at a time aback the burghal bare abounding things, but not yet basketball.
Saturday’s alleviation opener adjoin the Toronto Raptors was never activity to be the same. Too abounding pockets of the amphitheatre were dotted with devastation. Too abounding curve of the alteration arrangement remained quiet. Too abundant Andrea Bargnani, not abundant Carmelo Anthony.
Even the best irrepressible cheerleader, the Brooklyn apple admiral Marty Markowitz, accustomed that the Nets’ season-opening bold would not, and should not, unfurl as the affair he had already hoped it would be, afore the abiding furnishings of Blow Sandy led to the cessation of Thursday’s bold adjoin the Knicks.
“You can’t aloof affair abroad and abstain how abounding bodies are suffering,” Markowitz said. “How abundant sweeter it would acquire been if anybody in the apple were active the lives they were active afore the storm.”
And so it was that the acknowledgment of able sports to Brooklyn, a moment added than a half-century in the making, accustomed Saturday with commodity added than a bang and as commodity beneath than a celebration.
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— MATT FLEGENHEIMER
Crime during Blow Sandy and its after-effects beneath in New York Burghal by 32 percent compared with the antecedent year, the brand said on Saturday, but alike the storm’s acerbity did not stop some from aggravating to booty advantage of the abashing and anarchy that followed.
In the Midland Coffer breadth of Staten Island Saturday morning, a man dressed in a Red Cantankerous anorak was bent blockage the advanced doors of abandoned houses, the brand said in a statement. The brand arrested the man and answerable him with burglary.
Nearby, brand arrested three bodies who were empiric “auto surfing,” blockage car doors to see whether they were unlocked. Brand said the two men and a woman were in ascendancy of baseborn property, including keys to a Mercedes Benz that they may acquire been planning to steal.
Burglary, the brand said, is the abandoned blazon of abomination to acquire risen in the aftermost week, up 3 percent from Monday through Friday compared with the aforementioned aeon aftermost year.
Thousands of brand acquire been deployed to convoying the areas of the burghal larboard blurred and destroyed by the storm. Abounding admiral are on affiliated tours, accomplishing duties alfresco their accustomed beats to advice with the recovery. They acquire been deployed to beforehand adjustment at gasoline stations and to administer carriageable artery lights to areas afterwards power. With cartage lights out aloft the city, 500 brand academy recruits acquire stepped in to absolute cars. And 100 New York Brand Administering retirees acquire been mobilized to administer aliment and do added storm-related tasks.
— MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
New Jersey affiliation who acquire been displaced by Blow Sandy will be able to vote in the acclamation on Tuesday through e-mail or fax, the administering of Gov. Chris Christie arise on Saturday.
The New Jersey Administering of Accompaniment has instructed canton clerks to acquire applications for mail-in ballots via e-mail or fax until 5 p.m. Tuesday, and to lath mail-in ballots the aforementioned way. Voters will afresh acquire until 8 p.m. on Tuesday – aback polling places abutting in New Jersey – to abide their ballots via e-mail or fax.
A anniversary of canton clerks is attainable on the Web armpit for the New Jersey Administering of State. The Christie administering additionally said that any aborigine displaced by the storm would additionally be accustomed to casting a conditional acclamation in actuality on Tuesday in a canton added than the one in which he or she is registered to vote.
— THOMAS KAPLAN
The Times’s Absolute Acreage and Burghal sections accessory at how the storm will affect the approaching of active alternating the waterfront.
Real Acreage If Close Storm Irene aftermost year was an eye-opener,Hurricane Sandy was a absoluteness check.
Waterfront acreage in the New York breadth is some of the best coveted in the nation, but afterwards back-to-back years of allegedly once-in-a-generation storms, attainable officials, developers, brokers and homeowners are actuality afflicted to re-evaluate.
Although absolute acreage experts say acreage ethics are absurd to ache in the affiliated term, it is attainable that new zoning and planning regulations — and buyers’ expectations — could adapt how residential accommodation alternating the baptize is built, marketed and sold. Apprehend added here.
Metropolitan The Big Burghal cavalcade explores how the accident acquired by the storm speaks to commodity so attainable it is generally overlooked: New York Burghal shores are not fit for living. Apprehend added here.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
With temperatures accepted to bead abutting to freezing brief in areas afflicted by Blow Sandy, admiral are auspicious those afterwards calefaction to seek ambush in a shelter.
W/ the acceptance of algid acclimate we animate anyone defective calefaction to visitone of our heating centers or analysis into accommodation #SandyNYC #Recovery— Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) 3 Nov 12
Temperatures are accepted to bead into the 30s brief in abundant of the region, according to the National Acclimate Service.
Temps abreast the freezing mark accepted tonight in areas afflicted by #Sandy. Those afterwards adeptness should adapt for a algid night. #NWS #nywx— NWS (@usNWSgov) 3 Nov 12
A anniversary of accommodation locations in New York can be activate here.
For shelters in added regions, see Google’s Superstorm Sandy crisis map.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has apprenticed all those attractive for avant-garde means to calefaction their homes to be active of the dangers.
Do not use a stove or oven as a calefaction source. Attainable oven aperture or lit stove burners can be alarming & are abortive as a calefaction antecedent #Sandy— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) 3 Nov 12
Never use grills as an calm heating source. Charcoal & propane acquiesce carbon monoxide gas and are not acceptable for calm use.— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) 3 Nov 12
— MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
Tens of accoutrements of weekend warriors will acknowledgment to their day jobs, accepting absent abandoned biking costs and acceptance fees with the abandoning of the New York Burghal Marathon. But contenders absent a adventitious to acquire what amounted to bisected a year’s salary.
A cardinal of aristocratic runners said they accepted why the chase was alleged off, accustomed the attainable clamor adjoin appliance capital casework to adviser a chase while abounding in the amphitheatre are disturbing to balance from Blow Sandy. Still, abandoning brought a cogent arrears to the best runners in the field. Apprehend added here.
— JERé LONGMAN
The fallout from Blow Sandy is assertive to complicate voting on Tuesday in some genitalia of New York and New Jersey, but Connecticut appears to be in bigger shape. At a anniversary appointment in Bridgeport on Saturday afternoon, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said the accompaniment was affective to angle up generators at a babyish cardinal of polling places that remained afterwards power. But he said the generators were actuality installed abandoned as an allowance activity of sorts. “I acquire that all of the polling places will be attainable on Tuesday with approved current,” Mr. Malloy said.
— THOMAS KAPLAN
Out of the about one actor Consolidated Edison barter who absent electricity during Blow Sandy, 670,000 acquire had adeptness restored, John Miksad, the company’s arch carnality admiral for electric operations, said in a teleconference on Saturday evening.
About 270,000 barter were still afterwards power, as abounding as had absent electricity during Blow Irene aftermost year, he said. About 40 schools and 70 polling places remained in the dark.
“We still acquire in advanced of us accession hurricane’s anniversary to restore,” Mr. Miksad said. “We are not done by any amplitude of the acuteness and will be at it for a absolute affiliated time.”
He said the electricity networks for those with able adeptness were still “precarious” accustomed the accepted abridgement of back-up in both administering and transmission.
— MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
Since Tuesday, affiliation of storm-ravaged neighborhoods on Staten Island’s eastern coffer acquire been carriage bits from their homes and assessing how abundant Blow Sandy had adapted their lives. Some families acquire formed alone, others with the advice of a few neighbors, accompany or relatives.
But on Saturday, hundreds of bodies from about the burghal and amphitheatre caked into these abandoned neighborhoods, alms a duke to strangers in need.
By backward morning, the attenuated lanes of Midland Beach, one of the best afflicted areas on Staten Island, were active with activity. Groups of volunteers accustomed hoes, rakes, brooms and shovels went aperture to aperture alms their labor. Others circled the blocks in auto trucks abounding of food, blankets, clothes and charwoman supplies. Impromptu administering centers accumulated aerial with aliment and secondhand clothes sprung up on every added corner.
“Anybody allegation anything?” a man shouted from a barter to a accumulation charwoman out a abode on Olympia Boulevard. A few anniversary later, two women diplomacy rolling accoutrements paused in advanced of the aforementioned house. “Need anything?” one said. “Toiletries?”
There appeared to be added volunteers alms advice than affiliation who absolutely bare it.
At a abode on Hunter Avenue, Alfredo Zapata, 60, his wife, Beatriz, 47, were charwoman out the charcoal of their aged bungalow aback a babyish accumulation of strangers showed up and asked if they bare a hand.
One of the volunteers, Katie Nguyen, 32, an agent at an beforehand bank, said they were amidst about a dozen accompany who had catholic calm from Manhattan that morning to advice out. They had brought aliment and clothes to donate.
“I’ve never been to Staten Island,” Ms. Nguyen said.
But they said volunteering their casework and authoritative donations had been added difficult than they had anticipated.
One of the volunteers, Samuel Palmer, 31, said that beforehand in the anniversary he had helped assemblage a accumulation of accompany and colleagues for a mission to Staten Island.
“I spent two canicule online aggravating to bulk out breadth to accompany all the bodies who capital to help,” said Mr. Palmer, a administering consultant. Clumsy to acquisition a distinct point of coordination, he said, the accumulation decided to artlessly go to the apple and bulk out already they got there how they could be best helpful.
Once on Staten Island, however, they visited an American Red Cantankerous administering centermost abreast Midland Beach, but coordinators affronted the accumulation away, adage they did not allegation any added donations. The accumulation afresh chock-full by a Federal Emergency Administering Bureau command centermost but got little advice from the authorities there, Mr. Palmer said.
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So the volunteers absitively to breach up into babyish groups and arch out into the adjacency to see how they could be of service.
Mr. Zapata had a rental accommodation abaft his abode still awash with appliance and accouterments destroyed by the storm, and the accumulation slipped on elastic gloves, beggared on dust masks and got to work.
— KIRK SEMPLE
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg accursed the Affiliated Island Adeptness Authority, which provides adeptness the Rockaways in Queens, adage the anniversary has not formed adamantine abundant to restore adeptness in the neighborhood, which was amidst the hardest hit by Blow Sandy.
He said the anniversary could not accord him a agenda for aback adeptness would be able there and appropriate it could be as affiliated as two weeks.
“In our view, L.I.P.A. has not acted aggressively enough,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “When it comes to prioritizing resources, we advanced they should be aboriginal in line,” he said of the Rockaways.
With the acclimate accepting colder, Mr. Bloomberg said the bearings for abounding was growing added precarious, and he apprenticed bodies to go to burghal shelters if they needed.
“The algid absolutely is commodity that is dangerous,” the ambassador said. “If you acquisition yourself algidity uncontrollably, these are the signs of hypothermia.”
Earlier in the day, aback visiting the Rockaways, Mr. Bloomberg was confronted by affronted affiliation who said they acquainted forgotten. In his animadversion Saturday, Mr. Bloomberg did all he could to assure them that was not the case.
— MARC SANTORA
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said that workers were accepting the bang of the crane that had been alarmingly dangling 1,000 all-overs aloft the amphitheatre in Midtown Manhattan to the mast. He said he accepted the alley beneath the property, West 57th Street, to reopen this evening.
— MARC SANTORA
Two patients remained in the abandoned Bellevue Hospital Centermost on Saturday afternoon because they were too ailing to be agitated bottomward the stairs, according to several bodies accustomed with the East Ancillary hospital.
One of the patients was a woman who brash 500 to 600 pounds, and the added was a man who was appointed to acquire attainable affection anaplasty via emergency generator, according to the sources, who batten on the activity of anonymity because Bellevue advisers had accustomed an e-mail aggressive them with adjournment if they batten to the anniversary media.
Ian Michaels, a agent for Bellevue, said adeptness had been able to the hospital, at Aboriginal Avenue and 27th Street, on Saturday, as it was to abundant of Lower Manhattan. He added that admiral hoped to alteration out the aftermost two patients as anon as the elevators, which had been flooded, were aback in service. But he beneath to say annihilation about the patients or their condition.
The sources additionally said that afterwards Blow Sandy hit, the Bellevue antipathy was beneath water, so the bodies of patients who died of their illnesses afterwards the storm had to be kept elsewhere. Ellen Borakove, a backer for the burghal medical examiner, accepted that the Bellevue antipathy had been flooded, but that with the abetment of the medical examiner, the bodies had been put on academy racks to accumulate them out of the water.
She did not apperceive how abounding bodies there were. Ms. Borakove said the medical examiner’s morgue, which is separate, remained dry.
On the night of the storm, Bellevue, which housed 725 patients, absent adeptness and went on advancement generators. But aural a abbreviate time, the basement flooded, the ammunition pumps agriculture the generators bootless and elevator shafts flooded.
— ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
On Saturday, crews formed to fix the damaged crane that afflicted the closing of allotment of West 57th Artery in Manhattan.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
The plan for the aggressive to administer chargeless ammunition to the attainable in New York was put off afterwards the swarms of bodies that showed up for gasoline accepted overwhelming.
“We acquire asked the accepted attainable to no best arise to these administering centers,” said Eric Durr, the ambassador of attainable diplomacy for the New York Division of Aggressive and Naval Affairs.
At a news appointment on Saturday morning, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo arise that four adaptable administering stations would be accustomed in four spots about the city. Beneath the plan, anniversary motorist could acquire up to 10 chargeless gallons of gasoline. But not affiliated afterwards that, the breadth in Queens was aground by motorists.
As a result, Mr. Durr said, the accommodation was fabricated to lath ammunition abandoned for emergency workers. He said that with 28 actor gallons of gas on its way to the state, as the governor had announced, there anon will not be a allegation for the emergency fuel.
It is additionally a bulky activity to pump.
The way it works, Mr. Durr said, is that at anniversary armpit there are two trucks – one that holds 8,000 gallons and accession that holds 2,800. The abate barter distributes gas to cartage and aback it runs dry, it needs to be refueled by the bigger truck.
— MARC SANTORA
Gov. Chris Christie said that he could not appraisal how affiliated New Jersey’s gas administering arrangement would acquire to abide in place, abacus that the bigger botheration for the state’s gas stations was adeptness alike added than accumulation at this point.
In arctic New Jersey, Mr. Christie said, abounding of the stations do not acquire the adeptness to be affiliated to generators, commodity the governor said he was blind of until the storm hit.
“In New Jersey, no one had a complete anniversary of all the gas stations,” he said. “You can bet we are activity to acquire one now.”
Stations that can get adeptness from a generator, Mr. Christie said, acquire been absorbed up by the National Guard.
He committed the accommodation to allowance gas with the odd-even system.
“I capital to see if this could boldness itself afterwards the odd-even system,” he said. But as he toured the accompaniment and saw the curve coil for miles, he absitively that he had to booty amazing measures.
The accompaniment will additionally acquire 11 actor gallons of gas from the aggressive but instead of ambience up administering centers, as New York is doing, he said the plan was to bear gas to the distributors.
Mr. Christie additionally offered an amend on the beforehand abating power.
“There are now 1.2 actor bodies afterwards power,” he said. That is bottomward from 2.7 actor anon afterwards the storm hit.
He said added workers abide to arise into the accompaniment and anon there would be 11,000 bodies alive to “get done what they allegation to get done.”
— MARC SANTORA
If, as altitude experts say, sea levels in the amphitheatre acquire not abandoned gradually increased, but are additionally acceptable to get academy as time goes by, afresh the catechism is: What is the way forward?
In this week’s Burghal breadth are three proposals — some traditional, some fantastic, but all at atomic apparently applicable — brash to abate the furnishings of storms like Blow Sandy on three abnormally attainable New York neighborhoods: Lower Manhattan, the Red Angle and Gowanus sections of Brooklyn, and the arctic coffer of Staten Island. Apprehend added here…
Also in Metropolitan, a sherpa becomes the savior of the lox during Blow Sandy.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey is afterlight the attainable with the latest on the accretion from Blow Sandy in his state.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
I alive on Staten Island and acquire been aggravating to advice my neighbors as best I can. But I cannot abide to do that on an abandoned gas tank.
So I’m cat-and-mouse in band at the Hess abject at New Dorp Lane and Hylan Boulevard.
Though Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and added accompaniment admiral acquire fabricated assurances that abatement is on the way, my aggravate is aerial a beard aloft a division catchbasin now, and the gas abject isn’t alike in my view. According to Google Maps, I’m absolutely a bisected mile away.
Tensions are high. As I wait, I can see volunteers walking with baptize to a devastated breadth a few blocks away. The accomplished few days, all you apprehend are sirens and helicopters, and it makes you feel alike added afraid about actuality trapped afterwards transportation.
Like the guy I heard about who waited for bristles blocks at a BP abject in Grasmere. He was appropriate at the acceptance of the abject aback it ran out of gas — and so did his car.
“When we awash out at 3 a.m., one guy was agreeable because his car died,” Nori Levy, a artisan at the BP gas abject told me. “They had to tow it away.”
That could acquire calmly been me. Aloof afore midnight on Friday, I accustomed chat that a abject had aloof gotten a delivery. I jumped in the car and raced there. Abundance was one of the few cars affronted away at 3:30 a.m. They had aloof awash out, and I had ashen gas sitting there, waiting.
These gas curve acquire become a accustomed afterimage on Staten Island, and the bulk of gas larboard in your car is amidst the aboriginal questions asked of strangers after, “Are you O.K.?”
At a Getty abject in Grant City, aloof a few blocks from my apartment, bodies were lined up every day afterwards the storm, abrupt cartage alternating Richmond Road. But I didn’t acquire why those bodies were waiting.
Orange band was strung aloft the pumps. A agenda assurance read: “We are closed. Out of gas.”
“We’re aloof continuing on band with the affiance of gas,” a chump alleged Greg Ferraioli told me beforehand in the week.
He had accustomed at the station at 5 a.m. on Thursday with his Ford F-150. “I’m on E, so I’m able to adjournment all night.”
The station’s owner, Nino Cutillo, said a commitment was accepted soon, but hours later, annihilation had accustomed — not alike an amend on aback a alpha accumulation would come.
“We will get gas ancient this afternoon,” is all he could offer. I alleged the abject back at 9 p.m. that day. “No, no gas,” Mr. Cutillo said.
Amy Padnani is a Web ambassador for The New York Times.
— AMY PADNANI
At an Exxon abject in Bayonne, N.J., brand admiral and bodies cat-and-mouse in band for gasoline argued over the acceptation of Gov. Chris Christie’s new activity apropos gas rationing.
The brand had been accustomed an estimation of the activity that read: “If your vehicle’s authorization bowl ends in a letter (A,B,C…), you are abandoned acceptable to ammunition the agent on odd-numbered days.”
The problem: All authorization plates in New Jersey end in letters, except for vanity plates. So on Saturday, best anybody in the accompaniment could buy gas. Or so it seemed. But according to the absolute accompaniment policy, the aftermost cardinal on a bowl is declared to actuate odd or alike status, not the letter.
Correction: A antecedent adaptation of this cavalcade independent a baloney of the New Jersey administering policy. The Bayonne brand were appliance a arbitrary of the activity that said the canicule motorists could get gas was based on the aftermost letter of their authorization plate. Actually, the canicule are bent by the aftermost cardinal on the authorization plate, not the aftermost letter. A antecedent alteration additionally referred afield to the summary. The brand were commendation that, not accompaniment policy.
— CHRISTOPHER MAAG
The accomplishment band for the 43rd New York Burghal Chase stood bashful in the calmness of Axial Esplanade on Friday night, its signs advertisement the sponsors of a chase that had been canceled hours earlier. The bronze of Fred Lebow, the race’s founder, disregarded the abandoned scene.
“Few things in activity bout the adventure of a marathon,” apprehend a citation from Lebow, placed beneath his statue.
Few things in New York life, however, acquire akin the abashing of Blow Sandy. And no bulk how the city’s admiral and chase organizers accustomed to abate its appulse to canteen this year’s 26.2-mile chase through bristles boroughs, its end came abruptly Friday.
Earlier aftermost week, in the face of ascent criticism, Ambassador Michael R. Bloomberg stood abutting in his aegis of the marathon, adage it would lift the city’s alcohol and ample its coffers. Mary Wittenberg, the admiral and arch controlling of New York Alley Runners, the alignment that directs the race, championed the accident as a attribute of resilience.
Now the city, alternating with Alley Runners, will be afflicted to annual with cogent losses, ones admiral could not alike activate to annual in ablaze of the accustomed disaster. Apprehend More
— LIZ ROBBINS AND KEN BELSON
The New York Burghal parks administering reopened the majority of its 2,000 accessories on Saturday, but the anniversary of parks and added areas that remained bankrupt was extensive. The list, attainable on the parks department’s Web site, included Fort Greene Esplanade in Brooklyn, Fort Tryon Esplanade in Manhattan and Kissena Esplanade in Queens.
All burghal beaches and boardwalks remained closed, and alike in parks that were open, some genitalia were still off limits, a department backer said.
So admitting the gates to Axial Esplanade reopened on Saturday, the Abundant Lawn, the Sheep Meadow, genitalia of the Ramble, and all playgrounds and brawl fields were closed.
— ELIZABETH A. HARRIS
The No. 4, 5, 6 and 7 alternation curve were able to abounding anniversary as of Saturday morning, accompaniment admiral said. The acknowledgment of the No. 4 and 5 trains fabricated the Barclays Centermost in Brooklyn attainable from Manhattan by alms for the aboriginal time in days.
The D, F, J and M curve were accepted to be aback in abounding anniversary by Saturday afternoon, at which point the shuttle buses that were bushing in anniversary gaps would be discontinued. The Q alternation was additionally accepted to acknowledgment on Saturday afternoon, and the No. 2 and 3 trains were accepted to be aback in operation by Sunday.
hallelujah! RT@nygovcuomo: #NYtransit: A alternation accepted to resume afterwards today,pics of #flood amnion in #subway tunnel: facebook.com/GovernorAndrew…— Laurel (@laureleena) November 3, 2012
The A alternation was accepted to be aback on Monday morning and would run bounded from 168th in Manhattan to Lefferts Avenue in Brooklyn.
The L band from Manhattan to Brooklyn, however, remained abounding Saturday, from what Joseph J. Lhota, the ambassador of the Burghal Busline Authority, declared as “wall to wall” inundation. The G alternation adit was abounding as able-bodied and is not accepted to be aback in anniversary until afterwards this week.
Limited anniversary has been able on the Staten Island Abuse system, accompaniment admiral said.
— MATT FLEGENHEIMER
Consolidated Edison crews acquire able electricity to added than 645,000 customers, or about 70 percent of all those who absent adeptness aback Blow Sandy airtight through New York, according to a anniversary from the utility.
Some 280,000 bodies abide afterwards power.
Here is the latest breakdown:
As of Saturday morning, Con Edison arise that about 280,000 barter did not acquire electricity. That included 5,800 in Manhattan, 81,000 in Queens, 31,000 in Brooklyn, 31,000 in Staten Island and 25,000 in the Bronx.
— MARC SANTORA
For those afraid about affiliated gas curve and shortages, adopted admiral in New York promised on Saturday morning that advice is on the way, at atomic in that state.
More than 8 actor gallons of gas acquire been delivered to anniversary stations, with 28 actor added gallons on the way, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said.
Additionally, the aggressive is trucking in 12 actor gallons and will set up administering centers starting afterwards on Saturday.
The ammunition will be free, but drivers will be apprenticed to 10 gallons.
“Do not panic,” Mr. Cuomo said. “We did acquire a curtailment in ammunition delivery,” he said. “That bearings has been remedied.”
— MARC SANTORA
At apex on Saturday, a gas administering arrangement will go into aftereffect in 12 New Jersey counties:
“Once in effect, all retail dealers of motor ammunition will be appropriate to abandoned advertise motor ammunition for use in a disciplinarian auto abode authorization plates, the aftermost cardinal of which is an alike number, on alike numbered canicule of anniversary month,” accompaniment admiral said in a statement.
The counties afflicted are: Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Monmouth, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Abutment and Warren.
— MARC SANTORA
Before dawn, the runners were ambit Axial Esplanade in throngs.
As 8 a.m. approached, the time abounding parks aloft the burghal were declared to reopen, the runners were abutting by throngs of dog walkers, weekend strollers and tourists. Everybody agog to get aback into the abode that is for many, the affection of Manhattan.
“The bodies acquire been advancing all morning, allurement if they can get in,” said Affluent Brown, who has been alive aegis at a aboideau at Columbus Circle. “I acquire to acquaint them they can’t go, that the brand may arrest them.”
It will be nice, he said, not to acquire to do that any more.
“I grew up in Manhattan. I adulation Axial Park,” he said. “If Axial Esplanade were not here, the burghal would be added crazy than it is.”
The chase signs and orange ING banners were still up and the gates were still bankrupt at 7:45 a.m., but Maya Gloria sat with her dog, Gracie, attainable to resume their accepted esplanade routines.
“I arise appealing abundant every morning,” she said. While she has been demography Gracie on affiliated walks every day, it was not the same. “She knows the difference,” she said. “All these dogs are aloof crazy to get aback in.”
— MARC SANTORA
At 6:30 on Saturday morning in Abutment Square, a staging breadth for anniversary workers afterwards the storm, the air thrummed with dabbling engines and the buzz of an casual bus. Electricity had been able to the breadth on Friday evening.
Ralph Godbee, 60, a aegis bouncer from Georgia Power, was attractive advanced to a coffee from McDonald’s, the aboriginal restaurant to open, aloof afore dawn, aback the storm agape out power. He spent the night patrolling the aboveboard but said he spent best of his time answering questions about aback the electricity would be restored.
“People acquire been absolute friendly,” he said. ” They abode ‘welcome Georgia Power.’ And ‘please about-face our lights on’ with a annual of a bulb. It’s like accepting a acknowledgment note.”
As the adjacency was alpha to get aback to normal, the farmers’ market, a accoutrement at Abutment Aboveboard aback the 1970s, able for its aboriginal day of business aback the storm in a new, acting location: Madison Aboveboard Park.
— STACEY STOWE
On Friday night, NBC presented an hourlong telethon, “Hurricane Sandy: Advancing Together,” to accession money for the American Red Cross. It was aloof four canicule afterwards the storm fabricated landfall in New Jersey on a beforehand that would accident littoral and bank neighborhoods all the way up to Rhode Island. “One of the abundant ironies of this telethon is that the bodies who allegation the advice best can’t watch it,” said the host, Matt Lauer. “They don’t acquire power.”
Many of the musicians came from places afflicted by the storm: Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi from New Jersey, Billy Joel from Affiliated Island and Christina Aguilera and Mary J. Blige from New York City, alternating with an Englishman, Sting, and three associates of Aerosmith, from Boston.
Between the songs were calls for donations, affirmations of Jersey roots — from Jon Stewart, Brian Williams and Danny DeVito — and anniversary montages of abolition and desperation: surging waters, burst carnival rides, bawling families allocation through the accident of destroyed homes.
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— JON PARELES
The after-effects of Blow Sandy is aggressive to actualize Acclamation Day anarchy in some storm-racked sections of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut — and some furnishings may additionally be acquainted in added states, including Pennsylvania, breadth some polling sites still lacked adeptness on Friday morning.
Disrupted postal commitment will apparently apathetic the acknowledgment of absentee ballots. And with some polling sites acceptable to be moved, elections admiral were animating for a big accession of conditional cardboard ballots — which could adjournment the vote calculation in places. Apprehend added here.
— MICHAEL COOPER
While salaried advisers formed if they could, generally from home afterwards Blow Sandy, abounding of the atomic New Yorkers faced the anticipation of accident days, alike a astute week, of pay on top of the bread-and-butter amphitheatre they acquire absent aback the recession.
Low-wage workers, added acceptable to be paid alternate and assignment at the whim of their employers, acquire fared worse in the accretion than those at the top of the assets calibration — in New York Burghal the basal 20 percent absent $463 in anniversary assets from 2010 to 2011, in adverse to a accretion of about $2,000 for the top quintile. And there are an accretion cardinal of part-time and alternate workers, the blazon that assurance net programs like unemployment are not brash to serve. Aback 2009, aback the accretion began, 86 percent of the jobs added nationally acquire been hourly. Over all, about 60 percent of the nation’s jobs are hourly.
Even as the apathetic abridgement has accentuated this divide, Blow Sandy has acted as a added wedge, aggressive to booty a far greater appraisal on the have-littles who alive from paycheck to paycheck. Apprehend added here.
— SHAILA DEWAN AND ANDREW MARTIN
A government analysis has activate that about two-thirds of the gasoline stations in the New York burghal amphitheatre do not acquire ammunition to sell.
With gas curve accession for hours, balked commuters generally analytic for attainable stations in arrogant and little reliable advice about breadth gas can be found, the U.S. Activity Advice Administering began administering a analysis of accumulation altitude on Friday.
Its aboriginal abode was not good.
“Of the stations sampled, one-third had gasoline attainable for sale, 3 percent were not diplomacy gasoline because they had no power, 10 percent had adeptness but no gasoline supplies, and 53 percent did not acknowledge to attempts to acquaintance them,” the bureau said.
The abounding analysis can be activate here.
— MARC SANTORA
Four aphotic canicule afterwards Blow Sandy blew through the New York region, affiliation and businesses in the lower end of Manhattan began to get adeptness aback on Friday, starting to associate a apple that had been disconnected amidst the ablaze and the darkness.
As lampposts, streetlights and storefronts flickered to life, acclaim could be heard aloft accomplished neighborhoods.
“The aboriginal affair we did was the coffee machine,” said Ali Salah, 40, who works at his family’s cafeteria Chelsea. “Then we acquainted in our phones.”
This accomplished week, he said, it did not feel like he was active in New York City, but rather it was added like a babyish boondocks in his built-in Yemen.
But aback the lights came aback on, he could about board his joy.
“Today is like New Year’s,” he said. “Like a new holiday.”
Of course, hundreds of accoutrements of bodies in the amphitheatre remained afterwards power. And as temperatures abandoned Friday night, acrimony mounted.
In added boroughs and in the suburbs, the cast for abounding acknowledgment was grimmer. In abounding genitalia of the region, anniversary companies apprehension that bodies adeptness be afterwards adeptness until the boilerplate of November.
In Lower Manhattan, the adeptness acknowledgment started about 5 p.m. in the East Village. The arrangement in the East Village, accepted as Cooper Square, serves about 67,000 barter amidst 14th and Canal Streets. The Chelsea adjacency sparked to activity about 45 anniversary later, bringing aback adeptness to an added 25,000 barter amidst 14th and 31st Streets on the West Side.
The abutting big arrangement came aback to activity about 7:30 p.m., aback 30,000 barter east of Fifth Avenue amidst 14th and 31st Streets were already afresh able to about-face their lights on.
Throughout the night, Consolidated Edison’s crews raced to achieve acceptable on a affiance that aggregation admiral fabricated to restore adeptness to all of Manhattan afore Saturday. As anniversary arrangement came online, they got a bit afterpiece to accepting adeptness aback to all 220,000 bodies beneath 39th Artery who absent it.
Outside Manhattan, the challenges were in some means added difficult, with crews accepting to argue with accoutrements of curve that were mangled, damaged or ripped bottomward in Monday’s hurricane. Con Ed said it could booty until mid-November to accompany electricity aback to all of its customers. In Westchester County, breadth 120,000 bodies acquire no power, the anniversary said abyssal downed copse and ambidextrous with acceptance cut off by limbs and branches was artlessly activity to booty added time. On Affiliated Island, added than 500,000 barter of the Affiliated Island Adeptness Ascendancy still had no adeptness on Friday evening, or any appraisal of aback it would return.
In New Jersey, Attainable Anniversary Electric and Gas had able adeptness to over a actor barter by Friday morning, but about 600,000 still had no electricity by night. In Newark, about 100,000 barter had anniversary able at about 9:45 p.m., according the Ambassador Corey Booker.
Jersey Axial Adeptness and Ablaze had over 685,000 barter afterwards adeptness on Friday night.
In Connecticut, aliment were affective quickly. Abandoned about 140,000 barter of Connecticut Ablaze and Adeptness still had no electricity.
— PATRICK MCGEEHAN AND MARC SANTORA
Residents of New Jersey’s iconic coffer say that Blow Sandy will not ablution abroad their assurance to apple-pie the aged coastline. Apprehend added here.
— PETER APPLEBOME
On the night that Blow Sandy hit New York, burglars bankrupt into Kixclusive, a shoe abundance on the Lower East Ancillary breadth attenuate pairs of basketball shoes are priced as aerial as $1,400. The freeholder told the brand that 30 pairs of sneakers were stolen, adage the shoes were anniversary $30,000 in all, according to the police.
The storefront, on Mulberry Street, was apprenticed boarded up with plywood. Afresh on Wednesday, an active brand officer, Charles Hofstetter, spied four men affective abreast the plywood and entering the store.
All four were arrested on accuse of burglary.
Across the city, there acquire been belletrist of annexation aback the storm hit, arch to a 7 percent acceleration in break-in complaints from Monday through Thursday, compared with the aforementioned aeon aftermost year. Over all, arise abomination is down, although some brand admiral absorption that a abounding accounting is not yet possible.
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— JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
It was one of the alms system’s bright jewels, the avant-garde brood of a century-old hub greeting New Yorkers at the tip of Lower Manhattan.
But on Friday, the South Bear abject was accessible abandoned by flashlight. Sea grass captivated about a blast cord, affiliated to a worker’s booth.
Wooden boards as affiliated as 15 feet, some still abiding calm by atramentous wire, lay broadcast aloft the mezzanine. No one is abiding breadth they came from.
Chunks of a accurate bank had floated some 150 feet, through a turnstile, it seemed, about a corner, and bottomward a flight of stairs funneling adjoin the belvedere for the No. 1 train.
As the Burghal Busline Ascendancy scrambles to get abundant of its arrangement aback to work, there are few dots on the alms map added blood-soaked than this one. Beforehand in the week, Joseph J. Lhota, the authority’s chairman, said that baptize was “literally up to the ceiling” at the station, which is affiliated to the R alternation abject at Whitehall Street.
On Friday, 20 to 25 all-overs of baptize remained aloft clue level, said Frank Jezycki, the authority’s arch basement ambassador for subways, as he led a babyish tour. The apparent of the pools bashed about four achieve up at the academy of two staircases arch bottomward to the platform.
“We don’t apperceive what’s bench yet,” Mr. Jezycki said.
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— MATT FLEGENHEIMER
Perhaps added so than in any added abode in the city, the accident of adeptness for bodies active in attainable accommodation projects afflicted a acknowledgment to a age-old existence. Opened blaze hydrants became affiliation wells. Sleep-and-wake cycles were timed to sunsets and sunrises. Bodies awash for amore about afire gas stoves as if they were roaring fires. Atramentous became menacing, a affair to be feared.
A abridgement of accompany or ancestors in areas with power, or cars or cab book to get to them, meant there were few means to escape. Dwindling dollars astute the affliction of throwing out aliment adulteration axial blank refrigerators, and acicular the catechism of breadth the abutting meal would arise from. Some had not larboard their apartments aback the storm swept in.
“Where am I activity to go?” said Miguelina Newsam, 71, who subsists on aliment stamps and $661 in annual Amusing Aegis payments, alfresco her architecture in Red Hook, Brooklyn. “My son is on Staten Island and they acquire the aforementioned problem.”
Thousands of attainable accommodation affiliation in New York Burghal defied aborticide orders because they underestimated the atrocity of Blow Sandy; now they achieve up a burghal aural a city, apparent by astute need. Apprehend added here.
— CARA BUCKLEY AND MICHAEL WILSON
The American Red Cantankerous struggled on Friday to assure abandoned New York Burghal affiliation that its disaster-relief efforts were at aftermost accepting up to speed, afterwards the agency’s delayed accession in devastated areas of Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens drew acute criticism.
As of Friday, the Red Cantankerous said, 25 of its emergency acknowledgment cartage — retrofitted ambulances anniversary accustomed 2,000 pounds of water, commons and candy — had amorphous authoritative their way through the hardest hit genitalia of the bristles boroughs. Added were on the way, the bureau promised.
The Red Cantankerous had not yet opened the three acting adaptable kitchens that it arise on Thursday would be set up on Staten Island, in Riis Esplanade in the Rockaways, and at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, the bureau confirmed. The kitchens, which can after-effects 10,000 commons a day, would activate operating by Saturday, it said. Apprehend added here.
— DAVID M. HALBFINGER
Was biking through the burghal as the lights started advancing on and bodies were cheering. Best alarming bike ride ever? #Sandy #NYC— lilmeady (@lilmeady) 2 Nov 12
The acknowledgment of adeptness to accommodation barrio in New York was greeted with acclaim in abounding genitalia of the city, according to assorted belletrist from assemblage on amusing networks.
Out-of-towners from Pat Robertson’s Christian abatement group, Operation Blessing, captured some of the amusement on video afterwards initially academic that the complete of loud agreeable from a accommodation activity on the Lower East Ancillary “might be a riot.”
A blogger who goes by HeavyMetalKaraoke on YouTube additionally recorded the joy in the aforementioned adjacency backward this afternoon.
— ROBERT MACKEY
As Consolidated Edison able adeptness to several genitalia of all bristles boroughs of New York on Friday, affiliation of Manhattan neighborhoods that emerged from the aphotic aback abstruse the names of the assorted networks beneath the burghal streets they usually booty for granted.
In a alternation of Cheep updates, the @ConEdison augment arise that adeptness was aback on in the Cooper Aboveboard network, the Chelsea network, the Burghal Anteroom arrangement and the Madison Aboveboard network. In acknowledgment to questions from customers, the aggregation explained the boundaries of those neighborhoods in agreement of adeptness lines.
@siobhang Cooper Aboveboard arrangement has been restored. Network: #Canal on south, #Bdway on west, #EastRiver on east and #14th St. on north.— Con Edison (@ConEdison) 2 Nov 12
#ConEdison aloof able adeptness to 25,000 barter in the #Chelsea network— Con Edison (@ConEdison) 2 Nov 12
@rachkruh #Chelsea network: #HudsonRiver on west, #30th/31st St. on north, #14th/15th on south. #5thAve on east— Con Edison (@ConEdison) 2 Nov 12
#ConEdison has aloof able adeptness to over 8,000 barter in the #CityHall network— Con Edison (@ConEdison) 2 Nov 12
#CityHall network: #Broadway to #EastRiver, #Canal to #Frankfort with a sliver to #Wall St.— Con Edison (@ConEdison) 2 Nov 12
#ConEdison aloof able adeptness to the #MadisonSquare Network. Home to 30,000 customers.— Con Edison (@ConEdison) 2 Nov 12
#MadisonSquare Network: From #FifthAve to #EastRiver and #30th/31st Streets to #14th Street— Con Edison (@ConEdison) 2 Nov 12
Photographs that would contrarily be unremarkable, assuming the lights on in New York Burghal buildings, aback abounding amusing networks.
Lights go aback on in the East Apple and Alphabet City, Avenue C absolutely bursts into acclaim http://t.co/VgFjMEY9— Emily Smith Folio Six (@GossipAssassin) 2 Nov 12
SO blessed to see lights on in my apartment… East apple be aglow http://t.co/KhhQ6HBS— Lindsay Sweeney (@lindsay_sweeney) 2 Nov 12
Lights aloof came aback on in Lower Manhattan, but Gehry charcoal dark. http://t.co/0FAcTjFE— Matt Chaban (@MC_NYC) 2 Nov 12
— ROBERT MACKEY
The New York Associate of the American Institute of Architects has accomplished out to its associates to recruit registered architects and able engineers to advice in the alarming claiming of evaluating accident to 35,000 barrio afflicted by the storm. The associate is attractive both for those who are already certified in accident appraisal and for those absorbed in accepting all-important training through the burghal Administering of Buildings. They are asked to acquaintance the chapter, with their A.I.A. associate number, at dfrr@aiany.org. (The e-mail abode stands for “design for accident and reconstruction.”)
— DAVID W. DUNLAP
As adeptness starts to acknowledgment for accoutrements of New Yorkers, the city’s bloom administering issued assurance guidelines that it hopes will advice affiliation abstain problems.
“When reoccupying a architecture that absent baptize due to the adeptness outage, affiliation and occupants should let their baptize run until it is algid and clear,” the administering said. “In barrio breadth baptize tanks were depleted, owners acquire been directed to alike them afore resuming baptize accumulation to the building.”
The administering said bodies should bandy abroad any decaying aliment (such as meat, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy, mayonnaise or leftovers) that has been aloft 41 degrees Fahrenheit for four hours or more.
People should additionally bandy abroad any aliment (including packaged food) that was afflicted by flood water.
“Given that abounding affiliation acquire been afterwards adeptness aback Sunday or Monday, we acclaim that all decaying aliment be befuddled abroad – whether it was in your refrigerator or freezer,” the administering said.
— MARC SANTORA
When the adeptness went out burghal because of Blow Sandy, Andy Humm, a aloft animal rights abettor in the Dinkins administration, abstruse a analytical thing: The baptize in New York Burghal barrio artlessly rises to a assertive level, generally six stories, afterwards actuality pumped.
Pressure from the city’s upstate baptize accumulation pushes baptize up a few floors, but for academy floors, barrio anticipate on the all-over rooftop architecture to gravity-feed sinks, toilets and showers. But afterwards electricity, baptize could not be pumped up to the towers.
Mr. Humm had alive sinks and toilets in his fourth-floor accommodation at London Terrace, the huge, now-fashionable accommodation circuitous in West Chelsea. But abounding of his neighbors did not.
So Mr. Humm, a anchorman on gay and civilian rights issues and an activist by nature, went on a cause to attainable up a lower-floor bath to be acclimated by higher-floor tenants, decidedly the elderly.
“If you’re aloft the sixth floor, the toilets don’t flush,” Mr. Humm said. “Yes, bodies were brash to ample your tubs, but this has been activity on for days.”
By his own account, he began aggravation Ellen Gribben Bornet, accepted ambassador of Rose Associates, the administering aggregation for 1,000 apartments, to lath this attainable service.
“I’m still alive to see if it’s logistically feasible,” Ms. Bornet said Friday afternoon. “It may be a arguable point as Con Ed is advising that we will acquire adeptness tonight.”
When she did not anon arise through, Mr. Humm alleged the city’s Arrangement of Emergency Management, which told him breadth he could buy some carriageable toilets.
“I said, ‘Me?’” he recalled, acquainted that he could hardly acquiesce it.
In desperation, he alleged the commune arrangement for Christine Quinn, the Burghal Council speaker, who represents the area.
At about 4 p.m. Friday, Mr. Humm got a all-overs to go bench and acquire 20 Porta Potties, address of Ms. Quinn, who lived in London Terrace until aftermost year.
Jamie McShane, a agent for Ms. Quinn, accomplished as he rode his bike home Friday atramentous from Burghal Anteroom to Sunnyside, Queens, said he did not apperceive how the apostle brash to pay for the carriageable toilets, or whether she had abiding for added accommodation to acquire them as well. “Listen, I advanced she was animated to be able to be acknowledging to the apropos and needs of the tenants association,” he said. (After checking, Mr. McShane said that Ms. Quinn had acquired carriageable toilets for added locations, including a Chelsea accommodation project.)
Power was able to the architecture about 6 p.m., admitting the Porta Potties would still arise in handy, because it was accepted to booty a few hours for pumps to furnish the baptize towers. Aback that happened, the carriageable toilets would be abashed elsewhere, Mr. McShane said.
— ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Students at 65 “severely damaged” attainable schools will be briefly reassigned to new schools, and will resume classes on Wednesday, Dennis M. Walcott, the schools chancellor, arise backward Friday afternoon.
The blow of the city’s schoolchildren will acknowledgment to chic Monday, but the logistical challenges of relocating acceptance from those hardest-hit schools crave an added two days, Mr. Walcott said. On Tuesday, all burghal attainable schools are bankrupt for Acclamation Day.
High on the anniversary of those challenges is transportation. “Especially in acutely hit areas, schools may not be abutting door,” the adjudicator warned. Younger accouchement will be delivered to the new locations by bus; aerial academy acceptance will get a MetroCard. Mr. Walcott did not aphorism out the achievability that some acceptance will acquire beneath academy days, to fit as abounding as attainable beneath the aforementioned roof.
Notifying those acceptance of the changes will additionally be a challenge. Abounding alive in areas that do not yet acquire electricity. Mr. Walcott said the schools would be appliance every adeptness to adeptness the afflicted families, alive through ancestor coordinators and ancestor associations; broadcasting the anniversary in print, online and over the airwaves; appliance robocalls and argument messages; and befitting 311 all-overs takers informed.
“We acquire and feel for those individuals that may not acquire power, may not be in their homes, but that doesn’t beggarly they’re absolutely isolated,” he said, admitting he accustomed that “there’s activity to be some affiliation who may not get” the advice in time.
Compounding the difficulties, some acceptance in afflicted areas are now abandoned and may be broadcast about the city; some acquire absent admired ones; abounding acquire accomplished trauma. The Apprenticeship Administering is alive with added burghal agencies such as the Administering of Abandoned Casework as able-bodied as with affliction attorneys to appear to those students’ needs.
In accession to the currently busted schools, an alike greater cardinal were larboard complete but afterwards power. Mr. Walcott said that “Con Edison has provided a committed abandoned to assignment abandoned on powering up our schools.” He accepted that “a ample number” of those schools would be up and active by Monday, abnormally the ample cardinal that are amidst in Lower Manhattan, an breadth that by Friday afternoon was already advancing aback on line.
Mr. Walcott additionally answered questions about the scattering of schools that are currently confined as shelters for bodies larboard abandoned by the storm. They will be there while academy is in session, but will not absorb the aforementioned areas as students.
“We appetite to achieve abiding there’s abreast amidst those who are in a architecture for accommodation purposes,” he said, and those who are there to study. Responding to apropos about attainable aegis risks and bedraggled conditions, he said all would be addressed by Monday morning: “If it’s not germ-free afresh it will be sanitary, and the altitude acquire to be met.”
Teachers citywide showed up for assignment Friday to achieve diplomacy for their students’ return. “I’m admiring to abode that based on a analysis of 1,300 schools today we had 80 percent attendance,” Mr. Walcott said, acquainted that abounding of those agents overcame their own flood-related challenges to actualization up. Agents and agents of the acutely damaged schools will abode to assignment Monday, at their new locations, in beforehand of their crude students.
The anniversary of those 65 schools, which the administering brash to absolution Friday night, includes some with basements or alike aboriginal belief underwater, boilers that are abysmal or no best functioning, and electrical systems that were destroyed by fire. An beforehand appraisal tallied 79 schools, but in the acting some acquire been brought up to code.
— ARIEL KAMINER
Full alternation anniversary will resume Saturday morning on Metro-North Railroad’s Aerial Hudson Band from Croton-Harmon to Poughkeepsie, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Friday.
In added busline anniversary restoration, the East River Bear said it would resume its approved agenda on Saturday, as well, authoritative all stops except at its India Street/Greenpoint terminal, which charcoal bankrupt for aliment to its landing.
— MATT FLEGENHEIMER
The Army Assets is abutting the abatement efforts in the burghal region, the aggressive said in a anniversary on Friday.
“This will be the aboriginal time that U.S. Army Assets soldiers acquire been activated for a calm accustomed adversity beneath the National Aegis Authorization Act of 2012,” according to the statement.
“Our condolences go out to those that acquire absent admired ones or suffered accident to their homes and businesses in the storm,” said Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Talley, ambassador of the Army Reserve. “The Army Assets is accouterment units to abutment aboriginal responders and our adolescent Americans.”
— MARC SANTORA
The Obama administering backward Friday accustomed aperture up what is alleged the Northeast Home Heating Oil Assets to lath two actor gallons of agent ammunition to government emergency responders to advice accumulate electricity generators, baptize pumps, federal buildings, agent trucks and added cartage running.
“This accommodation from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Assets will advice ensure state, bounded and federal responders in the impacted breadth acquire acceptance to the agent ammunition they allegation to abide acknowledgment and accretion efforts,” Activity Secretary Steven Chu said in a anniversary Friday evening.
The oil reserve, created by the federal government in 2000, holds 42 actor gallons of ultra-low-sulfur diesel, amidst at terminals in Groton, Conn., and Revere, Mass. This is the aboriginal time ammunition has been arise from the reserve. The Aegis Administering will be in allegation of cartoon bottomward the ammunition from the reserves, which will afresh be broadcast to state, bounded and federal emergency responders in the New York and New Jersey area.
— ERIC LIPTON
The Christie administering said Friday that it had beatific subpoenas to 65 businesses in New Jersey as allotment of investigations into added than 500 complaints of bulk gouging.
In New York State, the apostle general’s arrangement is investigating hundreds of complaints of bulk gouging on food, ice, water, generators and auberge rates, admitting complaints about gasoline acquire been the best accustomed amidst the maddening shortages.
Jeffrey S. Chiesa, New Jersey’s apostle general, said his arrangement had accustomed complaints from all genitalia of the state, but said they were decidedly abundant in Bergen, Essex, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean and Passaic Counties.
“We apprehend that, by the end of the weekend, we will acquire issued 100 subpoenas to gas stations, astute them to lath their receipts and added advice to authenticate their prices, and the costs they faced, both afore and during the accompaniment of emergency,” Mr. Chiesa, a gubernatorial appointee, said in a statement.
The arrangement of New York State’s apostle general, Eric. T. Schneiderman, who is an adopted official, has accustomed complaints from Affiliated Island to the Hudson Valley.
“Our arrangement has aught altruism for bulk gouging,” Mr. Schneiderman said in a statement. ” We are actively investigating hundreds of complaints we’ve accustomed of businesses bloodthirsty on victims of Blow Sandy, and will do aggregate we can to stop arrant individuals from demography advantage of New Yorkers aggravating to apple-pie their lives.”
— DANNY HAKIM
The Burghal Busline Ascendancy on Friday afternoon arise an adapted map assuming breadth anniversary has been able to the New York Burghal alms system.
Kevin Ortiz, an M.T.A. spokesman, acquaint a articulation to a downloadable (.pdf) adaptation of the revised map, which can be apparent beneath (click at the lower appropriate of the certificate eyewitness to enlarge).
MTA Able Alms Anniversary Map as of Nov. 2
While New Yorkers adjournment for abounding acknowledgment of the alms service, some acquire affronted to an active workaround for traveling to Manhattan from Brooklyn: demography Affiliated Island Abuse Alley trains branch in the adverse administering from Atlantic Avenue, Nostrand Avenue or East New York to Jamaica, Queens, breadth they can bolt L.I.R.R. trains aback to Pennsylvania Station.
— ROBERT MACKEY
The New York Burghal Marathon, appointed for Sunday, has been canceled, Ambassador Michael R. Bloomberg arise on Friday. The chase had become a antecedent of altercation afterwards Mr. Bloomberg committed his accommodation to go advanced with it in the face of criticism from added bounded officials. Apprehend added here.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
Power came aback on about 5 p.m. for about 67,000 barter of Consolidated Edison in the East Apple area, amidst 14th Artery and Canal Street, from Broadway to the East River. Barter in Chelsea arise that their adeptness came aback on about 5:45 p.m.
— PATRICK MCGEEHAN
With so abounding bodies disturbing to cope with a abridgement of power, the plan devised by two New Jersey men was apparently not unique.
Desperate to restore adeptness to their homes, they got in a car about 2 a.m. on Thursday and began active south on Interstate 95 in chase of a Home Depot that still had electricity generators for sale.
The men, Michael Lapinski, 41, and Dave Hunter, 42, both of Aberdeen in axial New Jersey – a amphitheatre hit adamantine by the storm – activate their aboriginal architect some six hours and 170 afar afterwards at a Home Depot in Towson, Md.
“We were calling and visiting Home Depots all alternating the way based on buzz numbers and abundance locations from a buzz application,” said Mr. Lapinski, who, like Mr. Hunter, had been afterwards adeptness aback Monday.
Before abrogation Aberdeen, they had acclimated Mr. Hunter’s acclaim agenda to adjustment two generators from a Home Depot in Warrenton, Va., 262 afar away.
“Just in case our adventure had taken us that far, we knew we had two generators apprenticed in,” Mr. Lapinski said.
After award a 5,500-watt architect in Towson, Mr. Hunter, who had been authoritative the calls from his cellphone during the ride, anon accomplished that a added architect could be activate at a Home Depot 13 afar abroad in Edgewood, Md. Already there, Mr. Hunter accustomed to pay for a 6,000-watt generator, but his acclaim agenda aggregation initially blocked the transaction.
“I had to get on the buzz with accession who capital to apperceive why I was purchasing generators all over the place,” Mr. Hunter said. “I had not yet canceled the adjustment I had fabricated in Virginia, so my acclaim agenda aggregation apprehension it was a case of fraud. It was affectionate of embarrassing.”
“By the time we got aback to Aberdeen, abounding of our neighbors were still analytic for generators and some were still on Home Depot’s cat-and-mouse list,” Mr. Lapinski said. “So our trip, admitting it may acquire been a affiliated one, was able-bodied anniversary it.”
— VINCENT M. MALLOZZI
Most of the sets and apparel of the Martha Graham Centermost of Contemporary Dance, stored in a West Apple basement, were abysmal beneath 6 all-overs of baptize in Blow Sandy flooding, aggregation admiral said on Friday.
The actual included programs and posters and a cardinal of sets brash by Isamu Noguchi, one of Graham’s best important collaborators. One Noguchi set, for “Clytemnestra,” was congenital by the artisan himself, the aggregation said. Best of the company’s apparel were additionally inundated. The abstracts were stored in a about 4,000-square-foot basement at the Westbeth artists complex, breadth the centermost had abashed in July. Added abysmal productions were “Cave of the Heart,” “Embattled Garden” and “Errand into the Maze.”
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— DANIEL J. WAKIN
Janet Napolitano, the federal secretary of citizenry security, said at a appointment on Staten Island that the breadth devastated by the storm was “roughly the admeasurement of Europe.”
Staten Island, she said, “took a decidedly adamantine hit.”
Ms. Napolitano said 1.6 actor commons and 7.1 actor liters of baptize had been “positioned” to be broadcast in New York. She said 657 accommodation inspectors were already at assignment in New York and 3,200 advisers from the Federal Emergency Administering Bureau had been beatific to the Northeast.
She said she had visited a accommodation and had had “a annular table to altercate the basics and bolts” with bounded and bounded officials. The Burghal Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, and the Staten Island apple president, James Molinaro, additionally abounding the briefing.
— JAMES BARRON
The capital attic of the National September 11 Canonizing Museum, still beneath architecture about 70 all-overs beneath the canonizing capital at the Apple Barter Center, abounding with at atomic seven all-overs of baptize during the storm, its admiral said Friday. The calamity about absorbed two blaze trucks that acquire already been placed in the architecture and it amidst the allegorical aftermost cavalcade taken from the accompanying towers.
“It was shocking,” said Joseph C. Daniels, the admiral and arch controlling of the National September 11 Canonizing and Museum, which is amenable for both the architecture and the memorial. He said he had gone to bed Monday assertive the architecture was safe. He alive Tuesday to chat that the armpit had abounding overnight. Afterwards that day, he witnessed it himself from a balustrade overlooking the astronomic Foundation Anteroom on the capital floor, now abounding with thick, atramentous baptize on which copse planks and added bits floated.
Four canicule earlier, Mr. Daniels had been continuing in the anteroom with associates of the canonizing foundation board, assuming them renderings and acknowledgment which displays would go where. Architecture was assuredly resuming on the architecture afterwards the resolution of a abiding costs altercation amidst the foundation, of which Ambassador Michael R. Bloomberg is chairman, and the Anchorage Ascendancy of New York and New Jersey, which is partly controlled by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. The ascendancy owns the Apple Barter Centermost armpit and is architecture the architecture on annual of the foundation.
The actualization from the balustrade showed baptize all-encompassing about to the top of the blaze barter acclimated by Engine Aggregation 21 to acknowledge to the advance in 2001, and the barter on which Ladder Aggregation 3 arrived. A Blaze Administering ambulance was additionally amidst with water. All three had been shrink-wrapped in artificial afore they were installed in the museum. With the floodwaters still standing, there was no way on Friday to appraise how abundant added accident the already aged cartage had sustained, or whether the artificial asylum had adequate them.
The archipelago of partly abysmal artifacts includes the aftermost cavalcade of the aboriginal accompanying towers. This 58-ton piece, added than 36 all-overs high, was removed with atramentous commemoration in May 2002 to betoken the end of the aboriginal actualization of recovery, the approval of the Apple Barter Centermost site. It was afresh stored in a climate-controlled breadth of Hangar 17 at Kennedy International Airport while ability conservation. It is still in a climate-controlled enclosure, so its activity has not been assessed. Abounding of the claimed furnishings that had been taped to the cavalcade were removed affiliated ago for safekeeping. But the cavalcade is additionally covered in spray-painted graffiti from aboriginal responders, rescuers and accretion workers.
The aftermost column, the animate cross, the damaged cartage and the alleged survivors’ stairway were all hoisted bottomward into the cavern architecture during the aboriginal phases of construction. They could not acquire been abashed in afterwards the achievement of the canonizing plaza, which doubles as the architecture rooftop.
Mr. Daniels said Friday that the pumping out of the architecture was “fully beneath way,” but that it was still far too aboriginal to say aback architecture adeptness resume or, for that matter, aback the 9/11 canonizing adeptness reopen to the public.
— DAVID W. DUNLAP
Riggers and engineers apprehend this weekend to accomplishment accepting the burst crane bang that has dangled alarmingly over 57th Artery aback Monday and reopen the surrounding streets.
Work crews will ascend up to the top of the 74-story residential belfry abutting to the crane at 157 57th Artery Friday atramentous or Saturday morning and alpha beefcake the crane to the anatomy of the building.
A able access of wind askance and airtight the bang Monday afternoon 1,000 all-overs aloft 57th Street, causing burghal admiral to abutting streets to assure motorists and pedestrians. The developer, architect and architecture inspectors acquire been affair anytime aback to devise a plan for accepting and afresh dismantling the crane.
“Work to committed the crane is accepted to activate shortly,” said Tony Sclafani, a agent for the city’s Barrio Department. “We apprehend the operation will booty about 36 hours.”
— CHARLES V. BAGLI
It was a ray of achievement slicing through a blurred ancillary of Manhattan: Ambassador Michael R. Bloomberg’s anniversary at a Friday afternoon anniversary appointment that Consolidated Edison could acquire adeptness able in best of Manhattan by midnight.
And not affiliated after, a chump told a anchorman that a all-overs had arise from Con Ed advertence that her adeptness had been able in the adjacency about Chelsea. The chump wasn’t alone, and a ascent choir of achievement emerged amidst those constant the blackout aback Monday night.
I aloof got the all-overs from ConEd adage my lights are back!!!?!!Can anyone affirm burghal is back?????— emilywright (@mlebean) November 2, 2012
But for added users of the amusing media service, it appeared that the achievement adeptness be false:
@conedison why are we accepting calls adage adeptness aback on in Chelsea aback it’s not.— Zack L Cloud (@zack_attak) November 2, 2012
Thanks Con Ed for the hopeful message. There’s still no power. (@ Chelsea Court) 4sq.com/Qbwupg— Magnus Martin (@blondtoucan) November 2, 2012
Some belletrist alike adumbrated that Con Ed had alleged afresh to abjure the acceptable news.
@conedison alleged afresh adage “disregard antecedent all-overs adage ur adeptness is aback on. it isn’t yet”. r u badinage me.#TellNYT— emilywright (@mlebean) November 2, 2012
And accordingly came the acknowledgment from Con Ed:
Apologies to the affiliation accepting robocalls from #ConEdison in #Manhattan – We’re still on appetite to acquire adeptness able by tmw night— Con Edison (@ConEdison) November 2, 2012
— MICHAEL ROSTON
Rescuers pulled two bodies from accession abode in the hard-hit Midland Coffer adjacency of Staten Island on Friday afternoon.
Neighbors who had been accustomed bankrupt appliance and bits to the artery watched as two anatomy accoutrements were agitated out of a abode on Olympia Boulevard, about two afar from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
The victims were not anon identified.
They brought to seven the cardinal of bodies activate in Midland Beach, a beneath breadth of bungalows and newer two-story houses that was hit by the billow that accompanied Blow Sandy on Monday.
— KIRK SEMPLE
Some New York Burghal sanitation workers who acquire bidding a admiration to assignment on Staten Island and in Queens neighborhoods hit adamantine by Blow Sandy are accusatory to their abutment about actuality assigned instead to apple-pie up afterwards the New York Burghal Marathon, the abutment admiral said on Friday.
The workers acquire alleged their boutique admiral to complain, according to the abutment president, Harry Nespoli, who active Bounded 831 of the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association. The abutment represents the 6,200 workers at the Administering of Sanitation.
“Many of our workers acquire agnate problems that these added bodies have,” Mr. Nespoli said, apropos to the New Yorkers whose homes acquire been damaged or destroyed by the storm. “They acquire no lights, they acquire baptize in the basement, but they’re advancing to assignment and accomplishing their jobs.”
“They aloof feel, ‘Why are they accomplishing the chase aback they can be allowance added people?’” he said. “They feel we should be absorption on this accurate allotment of the cleanup and not the marathon.”
Mr. Nespoli said he accepted “it’s a boxy call,” but he said that he, like the associates of his union, believed that the affiliation of the Rockaways, Staten Island and added neighborhoods in ache deserved antecedence aback it came to the use of burghal resources.
City admiral beneath to activity a response.
“I apperceive this administering is attractive to actualization the attainable that they can perform,” Mr. Nespoli said. “The affair is, I’ve been out and the mayor’s been out there, too, and I see that bodies are affliction out there.”
Mr. Nespoli said he accepted that his abutment members, who acquire been alive 12-hour accouterment aback the storm hit, to chase orders and backpack out their assignments.
— WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
“We acquire 700 bodies in our auberge that don’t acquire a abode to go appropriate now,” Richard Nicotra explained on Friday. They are blimp into 310 accommodation in the Hilton Garden Inn he owns on Staten Island and a sister property.
Much as he would like to annual bookings that runners and others associated with Sunday’s New York Burghal Chase fabricated affiliated ago, accounting for 160 accommodation abandoned this weekend, Mr. Nicotra said beggared New Yorkers allegation arise first.
“It became axiomatic to us on Wednesday that all these bodies that we took in are not activity to be able to go home on Thursday or Friday,’’ he said. “So we had to achieve a accommodation to bandy our neighbors out in the algid or accord a allowance to an out-of-town marathoner. That was an attainable accommodation to make.’’
He said he accepted Ambassador Michael R. Bloomberg’s admiration to admonish the apple of New York resilience, but said acceptance the chase to advance as appointed was “a bad accommodation for Staten Island” and added genitalia of New York that are experiencing abundant accident because of Blow Sandy’s bent punch.
“A chase is important,’’ he said, “but not as important as if you acquire three kids that are ailing in allegation of shelter. We acquire a guy actuality who is 101 years old and his son said if you didn’t booty him in he would acquire died.”
Mr. Nicotra acclaimed that his hotels were additionally accommodation Brendan Marrocco, a quadriplegic adept whose handicapped-accessible abode abounding in the storm. “He had boilerplate to go.”
With the abounding abetment of Hilton Garden Inn’s accumulated admiral in Memphis, Mr. Nicotra’s agents has notified runners afflicted by the hotel’s decision. They acquire been offered makeshift accommodations, like cots in the ballroom, or busing to the chase from added hotels, but those actuality bumped were not all demography the anniversary in stride.
“The chat they use is they’re absolute ‘disappointed,’” Mr. Nicotra said. “I don’t apperceive if I’m activity to get sued, but we allegation to do what we allegation to do for our neighbors.”
On Friday night, the Hilton Garden’s 40,000-square-foot ballroom, which can commonly bench 1,000, will be accomplishing double-duty.
On one side, Red Cantankerous workers will be aggravating to beddy-bye on 50 adopted cots. On the added side, a helpmate will be escorted bottomward the alley by her parents, whose home was absent in the storm, so that she can ally a New York firefighter.
— ALISON LEIGH COWAN
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg offered an all-encompassing and full-throated aegis of his accommodation to ascendancy the New York Burghal Chase on Sunday. “We acquire to acquire a burghal activity forward,” the ambassador said, adding, “New York has to actualization that we are here, that we are activity to recover.”
Mr. Bloomberg said the chase would use “a about babyish bulk of Sanitation Administering resources,” and he added that there were affluence of brand admiral attainable “who assignment in areas that aren’t affected; we don’t booty all of them and move them into areas that are affected.” The chase would “give bodies commodity to acclamation about,” the ambassador said. “It’s been a afflictive anniversary for a lot of people.”
But alike as Mr. Bloomberg fabricated his remarks, there were signs that the activity to the chase diplomacy were continuing to grow. The city’s attainable advocate, Bill de Blasio, who had originally accurate the mayor’s decision, e-mailed during the mayor’s appointment to say he had afflicted his mind. “The needs are artlessly too abundant to alter any assets from the recovery,” Mr. de Blasio wrote. “We allegation to adjourn the chase and accumulate our focus breadth it belongs: on attainable assurance and basic abatement operations.”
And Christine C. Quinn, the Burghal Council speaker, who had remained bashful on the affair until Friday, additionally absitively to counterbalance in adjoin the plan. “The accommodation to move advanced with the chase is not a accommodation I would acquire made,” Ms. Quinn said.
For his part, Mr. Bloomberg said the burghal had a albatross to “help companies that allegation the business, to still achieve a tax base,” and he evoked the archetype of aloft Ambassador Rudolph W. Giuliani’s decisions in the months afterwards the 9/11 all-overs attacks.
“I advanced Rudy had it right,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “You accumulate going; you acquire to do things. You can grieve, you can cry, you can laugh, all at the aforementioned time. That’s what animal beings are acceptable at.”
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Kevin Boyle, a aloft editor of one of the city’s oldest newspapers, The Rockaway Wave, whose “Ideas Wanted” activity was featured in a Burghal Allowance cavalcade in August, beatific out an amend on the astute bearings in the Rockaways by e-mail today. In allotment of his affiliated note, he declared the adversity of accepting solid advice on the peninsula:
There is no adeptness and won’t be for some time. Some guesses are two weeks (bearable) to two months (not acceptable as winter rolls in).
Rumors fly about looting, barrio actuality accursed (large accommodation buildings), Breezy Point bodies actuality told to leave aural 48 hours (and because they acquire cesspools there is assumption that it will be a very, absolute affiliated time (if ever) afore that affiliation is accustomed to arise back. Things like that are adamantine to actualize for a few reasons. We acquire little or no corpuscle anniversary and best bodies are so active with their own houses and diplomacy no one has the time to analysis on anyone accomplished their own block.
Mr. Boyle additionally complained about the abridgement of aid, admitting according to the Rockaway Beachcomber Cheep feed, both the Red Cantankerous and the Federal Emergency Administering Bureau were alms advice to affiliation on Friday.
100 PCT: FEMA is additionally set up alfresco the 100 belt at RBB and Coffer 94. Arise annals for aid.— The Beachcomber Newspaper (@TheWaveNews) 2 Nov 12
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100 PCT: The Red Cantankerous will be at Riis Esplanade today affable food!— The Beachcomber Newspaper (@TheWaveNews) 2 Nov 12
— ROBERT MACKEY
As the storm approached, some dogs were jumpy; others seemed depressed or alike bored. But what did dogs absolutely experience?
Alexandra Horowitz has been because that question. An accessory assistant of attitude at Barnard College, she runs a dog acknowledgment lab and is the columnist of the book, “Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know.” And, not surprisingly, as the buyer of two ample dogs — the mutts Finnegan and Upton – her analysis generally starts in the accommodation abreast Columbia breadth she lives with her bedmate and their 3-year-old son.
Upton, for example, who is about 4, is abashed by abrupt sounds.
“He knew about the storm afore we told him,” Dr. Horowitz said. “He could acquire told us about the storm, if we hadn’t been advantageous absorption to the news.”
Upton chock-full sitting by the window of their sixth-floor accommodation because there were a lot of abrupt sounds below, Dr. Horowitz said. “It took us a little while to aces up on that.”
He additionally apparently paid absorption to the acceptance in abrupt gusts of wind that seeped into the accommodation through a bankrupt window pane, or the sounds of a adventitious allotment of axle bottomward on the street, she said.
Dogs, Dr. Horowitz said, alive in a “kind of acoustic alongside universe, acquainted and reacting to things that we cannot alike detect.” Abundant of that, she says, is because of a dog’s astute faculty of smell; and she addendum that the apprehension that preceded Blow Sandy agitated odors.
“Now, do they apperceive it is a storm coming? No, I beggarly I don’t advanced they’re defining things that way,” Dr. Horowitz said. “That’s our world.” But they do apprehension a difference, she said.
Dogs with afraid owners may acquire additionally become fatigued and hyper-vigilant. “One of dogs’ abundant adaptations is that they accessory to us to actuate how they should act,” Dr. Horowitz said.
Hurricane Sandy has offered dogs one argent lining. As Dr. Horowitz walks Finn and Upton abreast Bank Esplanade and on added accustomed routes, she navigates anxiously about downed trees, burst branches and blade effluvia.
While bodies she meets may acquire an affecting acknowledgment to a collapsed tree, the dogs are sniffing what is to them “like this new abstruseness commodity that’s appeared from alien space.”
“The aboriginal dog that anesthetized marks it — afresh aback it’s the new annual lath for the neighborhood,” she said.
She added: “And the dogs and the bodies are aloof accepting a absolutely altered acquaintance at that moment, I think.”
— BENJAMIN WEISER
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has taken a adamantine band with accompaniment utilities, cogent them they could lose their licenses if electrical anniversary is not apprenticed and calmly restored. Ambassador Bloomberg, who has appeared several times this anniversary with the arch controlling of Consolidated Edison, sounds a added affectionate note.
“From what we’ve seen, Con Ed is accomplishing as abundant assignment as they possibly can safely,” the ambassador said, adding, “I consistently stop aback I see a Con Ed artisan and say, ‘Thank you for demography affliction of us.’”
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Gas for New York Burghal agencies was in such abbreviate accumulation on Friday morning that the Brand Administering was confined as the bushing abject for added agencies, bodies with ability of the bulk said. Over the beforehand of the morning, the Accommodation Authority, the Administering of Barrio and added agencies were beheading up their cartage at the pumps at brand abject houses about the city.
— WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Consolidated Edison hopes to acquire adeptness able to “most” of Manhattan by midnight, as in 11 hours from now, Ambassador Bloomberg said. About 460,000 New Yorkers abide afterwards power, with bisected in Manhattan, according to the mayor. He said that adeptness could acknowledgment to some genitalia of Lower Manhattan on Friday afternoon, but that anniversary workers were actuality accurate to abstain any adventitious fires at barrio breadth electrical accessories may be damaged. Affiliation who alive in areas served by aerial curve will acquire to adjournment “a lot longer” for adeptness to return, Mr. Bloomberg said.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Residents and workers displaced by the dangling crane on 57th Artery in Manhattan will be able to acknowledgment to the breadth by Monday evening, Ambassador Bloomberg said. The burghal diplomacy to alpha accepting the dangling crane on Saturday, and the operation is accepted to booty 36 hours. The building’s developer will eventually acquire to assemble accession crane abutting to the damaged one to annihilate it, the ambassador said.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Public schools in New York Burghal are accepted to reopen on Monday, but Ambassador Bloomberg said there are 40 academy barrio that will not be able to ascendancy classes. Those schools may not resume classes until Wednesday, the ambassador said, and the Apprenticeship Administering diplomacy to acquaint those parents soon. There is no academy on Tuesday because of the election.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
The secretary of citizenry security, Janet Napolitano, will biking to Staten Island on Friday afternoon to analysis accretion efforts and appointment a Red Cantankerous administering center. Staten Island was ravaged by Blow Sandy, and abounding affiliation and bounded governments acquire lashed out at the advice they acquire been accepting from the burghal and the federal government.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
The burghal will lift its restrictions on automobiles with beneath than three cartage at 5 p.m. on Friday, Ambassador Bloomberg said. The burghal had activated austere banned on those cars from entering Manhattan over best bridges and tunnels. Mr. Bloomberg believes that abundant alms curve will be able by Monday that the restrictions will not acquire to be reinstated.
In addition, the Holland Adit will be reopened “on a apprenticed abject for bartering drivers and buses,” the ambassador said. The Staten Island Bear will resume a accustomed agenda on Saturday.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Mr. Bloomberg has provided a affiliated anniversary of aloft corporations, foundations and families who acquire contributed ample amounts to the city’s abatement efforts, a armamentarium that he said now included $10 actor in donations.
The ambassador cited contributions from the Hess Corporation; Time Warner; Viacom; the Anniversary Association and its chairman, Rupert Murdoch; Coffer of America; Time Warner Cable; Ben Stiller and the Stiller Foundation; several absolute acreage families, including the Rudins, the Helmsley Accommodating Trust and the Speyers; and the mayor’s own corporation, Bloomberg L.P.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Defending his accommodation to ascendancy the New York Burghal Chase on Sunday, Ambassador Bloomberg evoked the acknowledgment of his predecessor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, in the months afterwards the Sept. 11, 2001, all-overs attacks.
“If you go aback to 9/11, Rudy fabricated the appropriate accommodation in those canicule to run the marathon, and cull bodies together,” Mr. Bloomberg said. He said the marathon’s organizers were “running this chase to advice New York City, and the donations from all the runners in the club will be a abundant advice for our abatement efforts.”
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Mayor Bloomberg batten with the parents of the two boys who died on Staten Island afterwards actuality swept abroad by surging waters. The father, an agent of the burghal Administering of Sanitation, was out alive at the time of their deaths.
The ambassador is speaking cautiously about the adverse after-effects of Blow Sandy’s wrath. “For those who absent a admired one, the storm larboard a anguish that I advanced will never heal,” he said.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
The New York Burghal afterlife appraisal has been revised advancement to 41 fatalities, Ambassador Michael R. Bloomberg announced.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is speaking at Burghal Hall, afterwards a morning spent in genitalia of southern Brooklyn that were abominably damaged by Blow Sandy. He has afflicted his accouterments from a clothing and tie into a shawl-collar sweater.
The ambassador is admonishing New Yorkers that, alike afterwards electricity can be restored, there is a accident of blaze in assertive homes breadth electrical accessories charcoal wet, damaged or underwater. “We acquire already apparent some cases breadth electricity was affronted on, there were fires, and we absent some added houses,” Mr. Bloomberg said, although he did not specify in what areas those fires occurred. He said the burghal would be alert about axis on electricity at sites breadth a blaze accident remained.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
It was a amphitheatre out of “Water World”: accoutrements of gallons of baptize in the exhibitions of the New York Aquarium at Coney Island and, aloof alfresco the doors, the Lower Bay of New York Harbor.
During Blow Sandy, the two met. Sea baptize caked into the aquarium from the storm surge, calamity the 14-acre complex, animadversion out adeptness and jeopardizing the sea mammals and angle that anticipate on intricate filtration systems. On Friday, the Wildlife Absorption Society, which runs the aquarium, was debating whether to carelessness some of the animals to added aquariums in the region.
“Using architect power, we are authoritative beforehand adjoin abating life-support systems to our amphibian exhibts,” Jim Breheny, controlling carnality admiral of the society’s zoos and aquarium, said in a statement. “We are adverse a analytical aeon aback we will acquire to adjudge if we are activity to move some of our animals. We are still alive about the all-overs to achieve what we allegation to do.”
Staff associates affiliated to pump baptize out of the areas that abode the analytical operating systems. In photographs arise by the association on Thursday, several inches of baptize still covered the floors of the blurred aquarium as ample angle swam in the eerily afire exhibits.
Questions acquire swirled all anniversary about the fate of Mitik, the orphaned babyish walrus that the aquarium acquired aftermost ages from Alaska. The walrus was still actuality canteen fed and appropriate ceaseless affliction aback the storm swept in. According to a anniversary from the aquarium, Mitik “weathered the storm afterwards adventure and seemed absorbed and amused by all the activity about him.”
Aquarium admiral additionally arise that the developed walruses, sharks, penguins, sea turtles and allowance lions all survived the storm. “Our angle accumulating is additionally accomplishing able-bodied as we acquire been able to beforehand acting activity abutment on our tanks and exhibits aback we absent power,” Mr. Breheny said.
— LISA W. FODERARO
On Friday morning, Ambassador Michael M. Bloomberg addressed donor abatement plans, committed the accommodation to ascendancy the marathon, the gasoline situation, amidst added issues.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Obama administering on Friday approved to use what advantage the federal government has to rapidly acceptance the accumulation of gasoline and agent ammunition in the New York burghal area, including appropriation rules that advanced assertive foreign-flagged ships from affective gasoline alternating the East Coast.
The moves — including at atomic four federal agencies — reflect the coercion of anon accretion the ammunition accumulation in the New York area, which is already adversity from acclaimed calamity and the accident of power.
W. Craig Fugate, the ambassador of the Federal Emergency Administering Agency, said that in accession to briefly appropriation the alleged Jones Act aphorism that frequently prohibits foreign-flagged ships from alteration appurtenances from one United States anchorage to another, federal admiral are alive with Colonial Pipeline, one of the bigger activity companies in the country, to advice get a analytical ammunition activity in the Linden, N.J., breadth operating again.
“We are alive this as a team,” Mr. Fugate said Friday morning, in a anniversary conference.
The Environmental Protection Bureau has additionally aerial air-pollution rules that frequently adapt what affectionate of gasoline can be awash — altered mixes are acclimated at altered times of the year to abate billow — to try to rapidly acceptance the supply. It is additionally acceptance ammunition oil to be acclimated as agent fuel, Mr. Fugate said.
As of Friday morning, a appointment all-overs was underway led by the Administering of Activity with aloft ammunition suppliers to see how abounding added ships can arise to the East Coffer to move fuel, how abundant added accommodation they can lath and how apprenticed they can get to New York.
So far, at atomic one foreign-flagged tanker is on its way to the New York breadth from the Gulf Coast, one White Abode official said.
FEMA is additionally aggravating to assignment with adeptness companies to try to get electricity aback on at gasoline stations in analytical areas, or to accouterment generators to these spots — as in abounding cases it is artlessly a abridgement of adeptness that is preventing the auction of gasoline.
On Thursday, the Administering of Aegis and the National Guard, appliance aggressive carriage planes, abashed about 60 adeptness aggregation trucks and added accessories from California to Stewart International Airport, west of Newburgh, N.Y., so that they can afresh be deployed aloft the New York region. Utilities trucks had already arise to the burghal breadth from the Southeast but crews and trucks from the West were aureate in to get them actuality faster.
— ERIC LIPTON
On one ancillary of the brand barricade at West 57th Artery and the Avenue of the Americas: an oboe, a flute, a French horn, a bassoon and two clarinets.
On the added ancillary stood Max Artved and his acceptance from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen — Ragnhildur Josefsdottir, Anne Sophie Jensen, Arvid Larsson, Soren-Filip Hansen and Morten S. Jensen — argumentation in arrogant to be reunited with the instruments and accoutrements they larboard abaft on Monday afterwards they’d arrested into the Salisbury Hotel, 123 West 57th Street.
They had been dining at a adjoining Italian restaurant Monday aback a belfry crane bang chaotic abreast the top of the 73-story One57 accommodation belfry at 157 West 57th Street. They heard a amazing crash. The abutting affair they knew, firefighters were acclimation them out of the restaurant. They ran out into the storm as bits rained bottomward on the street. “It was like an activity movie,” Mr. Artved said. But aback a brand ambassador ordered them off the block altogether, it dawned on the visitors that this accurate cine wouldn’t acquire a blessed ending, at atomic appropriate away.
They activate new abode apprenticed enough, admitting they had to absorb the aboriginal night calm in one room. And they watched cautiously as the circadian bulk added from $200 a night to $400 a night. They canceled a concert of Danish music at Flushing Boondocks Hall. They alternating time afterwards time to the barricade, gluttonous acceptance to the arctic zone. “We apperceive about every policeman in New York,” Mr. Artved said. “Without activity to prison.”
Finally, on Thursday evening, the Arrangement of Emergency Administering and the Brand Administering accustomed affiliation and auberge guests from the arctic breadth to acknowledgment briefly to their buildings, admitting the bang still afraid ominously overhead. That meant the musicians would be able at atomic to actualization up Friday at the Aaron Copland Academy of Music at Queens College. There was some all-overs in their rejoicing, as they advancing the adversity of assuming Mozart’s Serenade No. 10 in B collapsed major, the “Gran Partita,” with their counterparts from Queens College.
“We haven’t been able to comedy one agenda aback Monday,” said Ms. Josefsdottir, the flutist. To which Mr. Jensen, one of the clarinetists, added, “Now, we’re absolutely out of shape.”
This actuality New York, however, the actualization went on. Prof. Edward Smaldone, the ambassador of the Queens Academy music school, arise Friday morning that the trans-Atlantic ensemble had auspiciously convened, admitting the academy was still afterwards power. In acquiescence to the circumstances, what was to acquire been a concert became an attainable call instead.
“We acquire all been aggressive to persevere,” Assistant Smaldone said, “and we will assuredly get to comedy today, aloof a few hours afore they are due at J.F.K. for their flight home.”
— DAVID W. DUNLAP
As acrimony percolates over the the accommodation to ascendancy the New York Burghal Marathon, at atomic two auberge owners on Staten Island, breadth the chase starts, said they would not bang out those displaced by Blow Sandy to lath runners who acquire aloof a room.
“Our capital antecedence actuality is to advice bodies in the Staten Island affiliation who acquire absent their homes to the storm, said Amit Gandhi, the buyer of a Anniversary Inn Express.
Richard Nicotra, who owns accession hotel, the Hilton Garden Inn, told New York 1 on Thursday that he would not ask storm victims to leave. “How do I acquaint bodies that acquire no abode to go, that acquire no home, that acquire no heat, that you acquire to leave because I allegation to achieve allowance for somebody that wants to run the marathon? I can’t do that,” Mr. Nicotra, said.
With abounding genitalia of Staten Island decimated by the storm and abounding affiliation defective the basics, abounding affiliation and bounded politicians are bent that chase organizers are continuing with their plans.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said he believed captivation the chase was achievable accustomed the ambit of the accretion and was a assurance of a acknowledgment to a affinity of accustomed activity in the city.
But Mr. Gandhi said his aboriginal antecedence had to be the bodies blockage in his auberge whose homes acquire been destroyed or are uninhabitable.
“We acquire apropos from our centralized desks who were appointed to analysis out due to the marathoners,” Mr. Gandhi said. “But they are actuality because their houses were destroyed, and we’re not activity to ask them to leave. Any afflicted family, we are extending their stays. With marathoners, we do apprehend a lot of cancellations. If some marathoners arise and we don’t acquire availability, we will do our best to acquisition them accession hotel, apparently about in New Jersey.”
At 2:15 pm Friday, Raymond Kozma, a amusing artisan with Integrity Arch Services, accustomed in the antechamber of the Anniversary Inn Accurate on Staten Island. The bureau provides casework for seniors at Island Shores arch centermost in the Midland Coffer adjacency of Staten Island. The center’s aboriginal attic was flooded, and affiliation were abandoned on Sunday. Kozma came to the auberge to analysis in on Patricia Quinn, 70, one of the evacuees. Continuing in the lobby, Mr. Kozma said to Ms. Quinn, “Oh, you haven’t heard? I don’t appetite to all-overs you, but we were told that the auberge would be blame you out to achieve allowance for some marathoners.”
“Oh, no. I haven’t heard,” said Ms. Quinn, who looked concerned.
They conferred with Amit Gandhi, buyer of the hotel, who additionally was continuing in the lobby. Haid that no, he would not bang out any evacuees.
“Oh, able-bodied that’s good,” Mr. Kozma said. “Still, I disagree with the mayor. It’s still too aboriginal to acquire the chase aback so abounding bodies are still affected. He ambassador is aggravating to put the best face on it, but not demography into anniversary the crisis bodies are in.”
— CHRISTOPHER MAAG
The Anchorage of New York and New Jersey, the bigger on the East Coast, was ravaged by Blow Sandy, and admiral there are now in the activity of charwoman up afterwards several all-overs of baptize bashed through the huge affiliated accessories beforehand this week.
Steve Coleman, a agent for the Anchorage Ascendancy of New York and New Jersey, said that the absolute port, which sprawls from Brooklyn through Staten Island and into New Jersey, has been bankrupt aback the weekend, with no bartering aircraft business advancing in. The United States Coffer Bouncer is meanwhile administering a accident appraisal of New York Anchorage and its surrounding waterways afterwards belletrist emerged of gasoline and oil spills in the Arthur Kill abreast Staten Island and of abundant huge aircraft containers absolute off argosy into the harbor’s channels.
According to a anniversary issued Friday morning by the Coffer Guard, the anchorage is attainable to ammunition barge and tugboat traffic, but added alleged deep-draft argosy will be accustomed into bounded waterways abandoned on “a case-by-case abject in allocation with the Captain of the Port.” The cruise abode terminals in Manhattan and Bayonne, N.J. are additionally attainable but the Brooklyn cruise abode is closed.
Jim Pelliccio, the admiral of the Anchorage Newark Container Terminal, said that several containers in his alfresco accumulator backyard had been tossed about by the wind during the storm and that workers there were aggravating to get them aback into place. The adeptness is additionally out, he said. “We got hit appealing hard,” Mr. Pelliccio added.
On Tuesday morning, a huge billow from Newark Bay inundated a 120-acre lot at Anchorage Newark breadth accoutrements of new cars were apprehension shipment, antibacterial abounding of them, according to a abode by Northjersey.com. The baptize swept through the lot, endemic by FAPS Inc., ruining hundreds of Fords, Chryslers and Volvos, and afresh swept through an adjoining lot endemic by Toyota.
The storm was so astringent that alike the Coffer Bouncer had to carelessness its New York abode in the Array and relolcate to a acting adeptness on Staten Island.
Joseph Curto, the admiral of the New York Aircraft Association, a barter accumulation of bounded shippers, said that the port’s best austere botheration in the canicule advanced will acceptable be labor.
“Many workers alive in the afflicted areas,” Mr. Curto said. “They absent homes and cars; some acquire no gas. We don’t apperceive how abounding are activity to be able to get to work. That’s the big catechism mark and no one has an acknowledgment yet.”
— ALAN FEUER
Subway anniversary could be broadcast on Friday, if predictions prove actual that Lower Manhattan will achieve adeptness afterwards in the afternoon. Governor Cuomo said that an advertisement on added alternation curve could be forthcoming, depending on the electrical situation.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
What happens aback you’re a anchorman and your own boondocks becomes the story?
Michael Winerip, the ballast of The New York Times’s Booming blog, writes from Affiliated Beach:
I alive on this barrier island on the South Coffer of Affiliated Island, and Monday night, at about 8, with the electricity out, candles ablaze adjoin the angle atramentous night and Blow Sandy abode bottomward on us, we aloft our glasses and broiled to the 10- foot- aerial coffer dune at the end of our street.
In coffer communities, dunes are captivated holy, and for the 30 years we’ve lived here, through abundant hurricanes and Nor’Easters, the dune had captivated aback the sea.
“To the dune,” we toasted.
Minutes later, in the angle black, four all-overs of ocean baptize came hasty bottomward our artery and two of those all-overs streamed into our aboriginal floor.
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— THE NEW YORK TIMES
“There is no acumen to panic; there is no acumen for anxiety,” Governor Cuomo said of the gasoline shortage. “We acquire why there was a shortage, for absolute apprenticed reasons. We additionally acquire why it’s activity to be better, and it’s activity to be bigger in the abreast future.”
At that, the governor took a moment to achieve a broader point about backbone and astute expectations in the face of a alarming storm.
“This was a major, aloft advance by mother attributes that we went through, and it’s not activity to be a one- or two- or three-day situation,” Mr. Cuomo said. “A little patience, a little compassion, a little understanding, should achieve it bigger for everyone.”
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
The gasoline shortage, which has emerged as one of the bigger difficulties faced by New Yorkers aggravating to resume accustomed routines, was acquired in allotment by the closing of New York Anchorage afterward the storm, Governor Cuomo said.
With the anchorage reopened, the governor believes that the curtailment will activate to ease. The governor has additionally waived a claim that ammunition tankers annals and pay a tax afore auction their goods.
“I don’t like to abandon the tax, I don’t appetite to lose the money, but we do appetite to advance the breeze of gasoline,” Mr. Cuomo said.
On Thursday, ships began re-entering the harbor, including tankers and argosy accustomed gasoline to terminals and administering centers. “There should be a absolute change in position, and bodies should see it quickly,” the governor said.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
The actualization from the U.S.S. Wasp acquaint on Flickr by U.S. Abyssal Band Cpl. Michael S. Lockett
The Marines acquire about landed.
About 300 Marines from the 26th Abyssal Expeditionary Aggregation based out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., are cat-and-mouse off the New Jersey coffer for permission to acreage in New Jersey and accompany rescue, abatement and cleanup efforts.
The unit, currently aboard the U.S.S. Wasp, an amphibian advance ship, will be brought aground via helicopters already the command is issued – possibly by apex – that clearly authorizes them to accompany a assignment force beneath the command of the New Jersey National Guard.
The Marines lath teams accomplished in installing generators, pumping baptize and antibacterial water. They are bringing their own equipment, including a cardinal of generators that are actuality alien from Arctic Carolina, said Captain Eric Flanagan, a Abyssal Band spokesman.
It is not ablaze yet breadth the troops will be dispatched, but added than acceptable it will be in flood-ravaged areas of South Jersey. “We’ll go wherever directed,” Captain Flanagan said.
Some Abyssal Band assets units acquire already been allowance in accomplishment and abatement efforts about the region, the band said.
On Monday night, for instance, New York Burghal brand asked a assets aggregation in Brooklyn, the Sixth Communications Battalion, to advice move rescuers and accessories to a blaze in a abounding breadth of Rockaway Beach. Appliance two seven-ton trucks, the reservists were able to advice brand and firefighters accomplishment 14 people, the Abyssal Band said.
— JAMES DAO
Westchester and Rockland Counties acquire clearly been declared adversity areas by Admiral Obama, Governor Cuomo said. The accompaniment requested the acknowledgment as a way to accumulate federal abetment into the area.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
The Federal Emergency Administering Bureau will be sending 30 teams of workers into damaged areas of the New York region, a accord amidst accompaniment and federal authorities, said Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who discussed the plan on Thursday atramentous with Admiral Obama.
The teams will allege to homeowners who are afraid about filing allowance claims for damaged acreage — “whatever paperwork, whatever bureaucracy, has to be overcome, circumvented, these teams will be in abode to do that,” Mr. Cuomo said. New York Accompaniment will additionally agreement $100 actor to a armamentarium to abetment affiliation whose homes were damaged by the storm.
— MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
They are added than bald comforts in the blow of the storm. For abounding devastated New Yorkers who now depend on the affection of strangers, acts of generosity in the food-service affiliation are a lifeline, and such efforts are proliferating. Diner’s Journal is accumulation a anniversary of restaurants allowance with the effort.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
The cardinal of homes in New York Accompaniment afterwards adeptness has collapsed to 1 actor from 2 million, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo told reporters at a appointment on Friday.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
Huge swaths of Affiliated Island encompassing added than 640,000 households remained afterwards adeptness on Friday, and the authorities said that it would be added than a anniversary afore electricity was able to best customers, and alike best for untold others.
At the affliction of the storm, Affiliated Island Adeptness Ascendancy arise adeptness failures for 945,000 out of its 1.1 actor customers. Admiral there said Friday that they had brought in crews from about the country to advice with the accretion process, but that downed copse and albino anchorage fabricated the assignment acutely challenging. As of Thursday evening, LIPA said it had able adeptness to about 490,000 barter on Affiliated Island.
With annoyance architecture and abounding communities growing added atrocious by the day, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo aloft austere questions about the achieve LIPA and added adeptness authorities took to adapt for Blow Sandy. Mr. Cuomo beatific a belittling letter to anniversary companies on Thursday aggressive to abolish the accompaniment certifications of the clandestine companies and blaze the management.
“New Yorkers should not ache because electric utilities did not analytic adapt for this eventuality,” Mr. Cuomo said.
“With annual to the Affiliated Island Adeptness Authority, I will achieve every change all-important to ensure it lives up to its attainable responsibility,” he said. “It goes afterwards adage that such failures would accreditation the abatement of the administering amenable for such colossal misjudgments.”
— SAM DOLNICK
Emotions on the catechism of whether the New York Burghal Chase should go advanced on Sunday, in the after-effects of Blow Sandy, affiliated to run high, as runners, admirers and New Yorkers accurate their assessment on the polarizing issue.
By Friday morning, added than 500 readers had brash in with comments on Ken Belson’s commodity about the affiliated diplomacy for the accident in the deathwatch of the storm. A “Cancel the 2012 NYC Marathon” Facebook accumulation started by Michelle Cleary of Staten Island had over 28,000 “likes” two canicule afore the chase was to be run.
“I would adulation for them to bulk out a bigger way to use volunteers,” Cleary said in a buzz anniversary on Thursday. “I advanced apathetic it is an option. Either way, the efforts allegation to be absent to advice the recovery.”
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— MARY PILON
Gov. Chris Christie said on Friday morning that Atlantic City’s casinos, which had been bankrupt aback afore Blow Sandy fabricated landfall, can reopen immediately. Mr. Christie additionally aerial a binding aborticide adjustment for affiliation of Atlantic City.
All casinos in Atlantic Burghal can reopen immediately. In addition, the binding aborticide adjustment for AC affiliation has been lifted. #Sandy— Governor Christie (@GovChristie) 2 Nov 12
Mr. Christie, like added adopted officials, continues to lath a beck of updates on the storm acknowledgment on his Cheep feed. Aftermost night, he acclimated video from an actualization beforehand in the day to explain that he is visiting victims of the storm ” let them apperceive they’re not alone.”
All I’m aggravating to do by advancing about & visiting bodies & talking to them is let them apperceive they’re not alone. #Sandy http://t.co/ouXpsUlL— Governor Christie (@GovChristie) 1 Nov 12
— THOMAS KAPLAN
The band for buses at the Barclays Centermost was still absolute affiliated but affective apprenticed about the amphitheatre at 10 a.m., with adjournment times of about 15 minutes.
The alley about the amphitheater showed signs of the abundant basal cartage it had apparent all morning, akin a chase avenue — abandoned instead of mini baptize cups, it was blowzy with coffee cups.
— ANNIE CORREAL
North Williamsburg bear band stretches to kent turns the bend at N5 and alcove N6. #aroundtheblock http://t.co/NSs1oyUQ— Smith (@notsocommon) 2 Nov 12
Ryan Smith, a agenda artist at The New York Times, is live-tweeting his drive into assignment via the New York Waterway bear from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which continues to accomplish on a adapted agenda on Friday. Readers who acquire not enjoyed the acquaintance of continuing in a affiliated band for a bear this morning can chase the adventure on his @notsocommon Cheep feed.
The N Williamsburg bear band is affiliated but moving! 40mins and counting. http://t.co/MaprlCSW— Smith (@notsocommon) 2 Nov 12
— ROBERT MACKEY
Carnegie Hall, plunged into abeyant action because of the crane aloft the artery larboard dangling by Blow Sandy, is disturbing to lath singers, pianists and cord players whose dates acquire been annulled this weekend.
Among changes it arise backward Thursday: the King’s Singers concert appointed for Friday was abashed to Feb. 18; Murray Perahia’s piano account was abashed from Friday to Sunday at Avery Fisher Hall; the Belcea Quartet achievement on Saturday moves to Tuesday, but abandoned if authorities reopen 57th Street, which was bankrupt because of the crane; a achievement by Opera Lafayette of “L’Invitation au Voyage” on Friday in Weill Account Anteroom will booty abode at the Colony Club; Monday’s Oratorio Association of New York achievement will booty abode some time in aboriginal 2013.
The burghal has said assignment to committed the damaged crane that would acquiesce the adjoining streets to attainable could activate this weekend.
— DANIEL J. WAKIN
Generators are powering activity abutment systems for some exhibitions at the New York Aquarium. Adeptness is able to two of the capital display buildings, Glover’s Reef and Absorption Hall. Baptize is still actuality pumped out of areas that abode astute operating systems.
Mitik, the orphaned walrus calf, as able-bodied as developed walruses, sharks, penguins, sea turtles and sea lions all did able-bodied in the storm. The angle collection, on acting activity support, is additionally arise as “doing well.”
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
If close storm Irene aftermost year was an eye-opener, Blow Sandy was a absoluteness check.
Waterfront acreage in the New York breadth is some of the best coveted in the nation, but afterwards back-to-back years of allegedly once-in-a-generation storms, attainable officials, developers, brokers and homeowners are actuality afflicted to re-evaluate.
Although absolute acreage experts say acreage ethics are absurd to ache in the affiliated term, it is attainable that new zoning and planning regulations — and buyers’ expectations — could adapt how residential accommodation alternating the baptize is built, marketed and sold.
In a anniversary appointment on Wednesday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said adopted admiral had a albatross to accede new means to advanced agnate accident to the region’s basement in the face of approaching storms. “For us to sit actuality today and say this is a once-in-a-generation and it’s not activity to appear again, I think, would be shortsighted,” he said. “I advanced we allegation to advanced added of these extreme-weather-type situations in the future, and we acquire to booty that into application in reforming, modifying, our infrastructure.”
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— MICHELLE HIGGINS
Ferry anniversary amidst Staten Island and Lower Manhattan will resume on Friday, the city’s Administering of Busline announced. The aboriginal Staten Island Bear will carelessness from the St. George terminal at noon, followed by half-hourly anniversary in both directions. The bureau said added agenda accommodation would be provided.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
Between 8 and 8:30 a.m., the adjournment at the Barclays Centermost amphitheatre tripled — up from 10 anniversary to 30 and beyond. For the aboriginal time all morning, a band that had been abbreviate came to a arrest and affiliated aback alternating Flatbush Avenue. Afresh it affronted assimilate Dean Street, and angled aback assimilate Sixth Avenue.
Still, it was a all-inclusive beforehand over Thursday, aback bodies waited added than three hours here, and no one was attainable to accuse aloof yet. Except, that is, aback it came to the airing about the stadium, a detour brash to decongest the bus-loading breadth that added an abrupt quarter-mile to the morning commute.
“It’s horrendous! It’s such a affiliated airing about this Barclays Center,” said Caroline Adolescent Miller, 60, who works at the Bahamas Consulate General. She was huffing about the amphitheater with her colleague, Clemmy Eneas-Varence, 41, who took it all in stride. “Good exercise this morning!” she said.
— ANNIE CORREAL
For the aboriginal time in bristles days, adeptness will acknowledgment to a babyish sliver of Lower Manhattan, including Bank Street, by midnight Friday, Consolidated Edison admiral said.
And all of the utility’s barter in Manhattan who absent adeptness aback Blow Sandy barreled into the burghal should apprehend to acquire electricity on Saturday.
Before the end of the day on Friday, adeptness is accepted to be able to the best southeastern tip of Manhattan, said Alfonso Quiroz, a Con Ed spokesman, an breadth about south of Frankfort Street, which parallels the acceptance to the Brooklyn Bridge. In that area, barter east of Broadway will acquire electricity, but those west of Broadway will be able by Saturday, although some barter there already acquire power, he said.
The breadth encompasses barter who had been served by the two networks taken out preemptively by the anniversary during the storm.
Still, not all barter in Manhattan may get adeptness aback on Saturday, said Allan Drury, accession Con Ed spokesman. Damaged accessories could adjournment abounding restoration, he said.
“Some barter may acquire had accident to their accessories and cannot acquire service,” Mr. Drury said.And he said barter in the added boroughs will acquire to adjournment best for their adeptness to resume.
Manhattan is served by underground lines, which makes the resumption of adeptness easier. About 226,000 barter do not currently acquire anniversary in Manhattan, from an breadth about south of 40th artery on the east ancillary and from about 34th Artery on the west ancillary of the island.
A all-inclusive majority of barter in the added boroughs will acquire adeptness afresh by the weekend of Nov. 10, Mr. Drury said. Those barter depend on aerial curve that are harder to fix.
While the numbers change quickly, barter still afterwards electricity as of Friday morning are as follows:
Queens, 84,000Staten Island 54,000Brooklyn: 35,000Bronx 31,000
— CHRISTINE HAUSER
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— THE NEW YORK TIMES
The adjournment to get on the bus at the Barclays Centermost was aloof over 10 anniversary at 7 a.m. today. But anniversary are not the abandoned way to admeasurement a line.
The band was as affiliated as bisected a average coffee, or three-quarters of an egg and cheese sandwich, or 10 to 15 pages of the atypical on your Kindle, accepted that atypical was a page-turner.
“I am alteration ‘Game of Thrones,’” said Colin Wiggins, 30, who works in apprentice diplomacy for CUNY in the northwest Bronx. “I chose this book because I knew I capital commodity affiliated and absorbing for the abutting days.”
— ANNIE CORREAL
Clip-clopping up the escalators in his toe-clip cycling shoes in the F Band station, Demetrius Taylor confused his bike on his appropriate acquire afore branch up the stairs to Lexington Avenue on Friday morning about 6:45. Afore Blow Sandy, he biked from his home in Elmont at the tip of Nassau Canton in Affiliated Island to assignment on 54th Artery amidst 9th and 10th Avenues. That bike avenue takes him 65 anniversary to be precise. By subway?
“An hour and a half,” said Mr. Taylor, 23, who installs auto glass. “I’ve never brought the bike on the alms before. It was an experience, crowded.”
— STACEY STOWE
Police admiral at the Barclays Centermost estimated that accoutrements of bodies had accustomed and boarded shuttle buses by 6:30 a.m. “Well, 3,000, 4,000, 5,000? I don’t know, it’s adamantine to count,” said a brand ambassador from the 66th Precinct, as the band of abundantly black-clad commuters streamed abaft him on Flatbush Avenue.
The new system, which circuitous a lap about the stadium, seemed to be working, decongesting the breadth anon in advanced of the buses.
“This is the aboriginal time they’ve got actuality organized. I see things affective quicker,” said Wesley Stevens, 28, who endured a three-and-a-half-hour drive bygone from his home in Flatbush to the medical arrangement on Madison and 72nd breadth he works in maintenance. But he was afraid to acknowledge the drive a success today. “That’s the hardest thing, not alive how affiliated it’s activity to take.”
Cops activate in accomplishment to accumulate adjustment about Barclays Center, breadth I anticipate Brooklyn’s aboriginal @cnbcshuttle! #SandyNYC twitter.com/montalvo_d/sta…— David Montalvo (@montalvo_d) November 2, 2012
— ANNIE CORREAL
Juno Rollins, who lives in Jamaica, Queens, took the F alternation on Friday morning, abrogation 45 anniversary aboriginal to get to his job at the New York Burghal Accommodation Authority.
“It wasn’t bad,” Mr. Rollins said. “But it’s absolutely crowded.” Like others at the abject at 63rd and Lexington, Mr. Rollins took the alternation because he couldn’t acquisition gasoline in Queens.
“Where’s Madison?” asked a woman arising from the F alternation as she stood in a clamp of nannies accession in Manhattan from Queens. Abounding of the women, detoured from the E train, were alien of the way to assignment and helped one accession cantankerous the routes, afore sunrise.
— STACEY STOWE
At 6:15 a.m., the crowds started accession in ardent at the Barclays Center. They were apprenticed into the askew of barricades by brand admiral and absolved at a absolute quick pace, some of them alike breaking into a run as they accustomed to move adjoin the advanced of what was aback acceptable a absolute affiliated line.
Friends met in line; one man agitated a miniature Chihuahua in a accessory blind from his chest. There were a few smiles, and abounding a accede for the brand officers. “Much bigger than yesterday, ” one man said afore he got assimilate the bus. Generally, however, the affection was business-like, even, one adeptness say, grumpy.
— ANNIE CORREAL
Alexig Diaz of Manhattan and his wife thumped four accoutrements bottomward the stairs to the F alternation at 63rd and Lexington at 6:30 Friday morning. Were they headed to the airport?
“I achievement so,” said Mr. Diaz, 60. ” There’s no gasoline and we acquire to get to J.F.K.,” he said. “Visiting ancestors in the Caribbean.”
The beck of cartage from Queens to Manhattan included others not accustomed with the route. There was a assistant active too backward to accord her name who lives in Fort Lee, N.J. but is active with her sister in Queens until the adeptness is restored. ” I’ve never done this afore so I’m not abiding breadth I’m going,” she said.
The Burghal Busline Ascendancy installed added agents at the alms stops, said the man in the advice berth at the F alternation at 63rd and Lexington, who narrowed his eyes in apish acrimony aback asked his name. “People are appealing affable accustomed the circumstances,” he said, as bodies filed out of the station. Three New York brand admiral were abandoned off at the abject at 6 a.m. for “crowd control,” one of them said.
— STACEY STOWE
All the commuters assume to acquire woken up at 5 a.m. to bolt buses or the apprenticed alms trains that were active to the Barclays Center.
“Yep, 5 o’clock,” said Kerry Marchesi, 26, who lives in Esplanade Slope but had gone to Bay Ridge to get an accurate bus to the arena. Bygone she alleged a car service, she said. Asked why she absitively to adventurous the curve to the shuttle today, she said: “I assignment in finance. I’ve got no choice.”
These aboriginal risers created the 6 a.m. wave, which created the aboriginal ample army of the day.
“All the way down! Let’s go! Let’s go!” said a brand officer, her arm bouncing commuters into abbreviate curve that deposited them beside the buses. She afresh afresh the command in Spanish.
— ANNIE CORREAL
Although he was offered $20 from a disciplinarian to be the third disciplinarian in a car apprenticed to cantankerous the Queensboro Arch on Thursday, David Frazier, a bus disciplinarian headed to Manhattan from Jamaica, Queens, took the F alternation on Friday morning.
“I didn’t booty it,” said Mr. Frazier, 49, with a beam as he exited the abject on Friday at 63rd Artery and Lexington Avenue. “But I thanked him and took the chargeless ride.” The adjournment arch the arch was so late, Mr. Frazier apprehension about walking. The Friday morning alms drive was quick for him — he fabricated it to the burghal by 5:45 a.m. — but accepting home aftermost night was difficult.
“There was a band actuality of bodies aloof cat-and-mouse to get on the train,” Mr. Frazier said, gesturing about the F Artery abject at 63rd Street. “People were frustrated.” And the attitude of his bus patrons?
“Not too bad,” he said, “people aloof appetite to get to assignment so they try to be patient.”
— STACEY STOWE
For some commuters arising from the F band at 63rd Artery and Lexington Avenue on Friday morning, commuting articulate like analytic a geometry problem. Leslie Watson, 43, a ambassador for AM New York, said he took the M alternation over the F Band but that he’d frequently booty the E. Car and bus busline is sketchy, and there are aloof two bounded trains active local.
“Yesterday, there were a brace of bodies from M.T.A. giving out advice but otherwise, like today, you’re on your own,” Mr. Watson said. “Not bad, but not good. My drive was 12 anniversary late.”
“There’s a timberline bottomward at 120th and Farmer’s that has to be removed or the bus can’t get by,” said Mr. Watson, who added that the apportionment of the morning commuting cardboard is aback afterwards actuality abeyant for four days. “Gas is limited. I acquire accompany activity from Queens to the Bronx for gas.”
— STACEY STOWE
Commuters started accession in beyond numbers amidst 5 and 5:30 a.m. at the Barclays Center. If they got off at the Atlantic Avenue Barclays Centermost abject they had to achieve a ample bend about the Barclays Center; they filed agilely bottomward Atlantic, above abaft the hulking amphitheater and alternating to the atom breadth shuttle buses were acrimonious up cartage on Flatbush. There was about no wait. Commuters absolved at a active clip and looked adequate to be taken anon assimilate buses, which about were abiding to accommodation afore they took off.
“If it starts to get too awash we will alpha affective them into this zigzag” of barricades, said a brand ambassador from the 78th Precinct. His brand articular him as Davis. “Things are moving,” said the officer. “Yesterday things were different.”
— ANNIE CORREAL
Economic amercement inflicted by Blow Sandy could adeptness $50 billion, according to new estimates that are added than bifold a antecedent forecast. Some economists warned on Thursday that the storm could barber a bisected allotment point off the nation’s bread-and-butter advance in the accepted quarter. Apprehend added »
— MARY WILLIAMS WALSH AND NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
UNION, N.J. — Boundless gas shortages afflicted fears amidst affiliation and disrupted some accomplishment and emergency casework on Thursday as the New York amphitheatre struggled to acknowledgment to a affinity of beforehand afterwards actuality ravaged by Blow Sandy. Apprehend added »
— KATE ZERNIKE
The clammy marshes and still-damp charcoal of homes on Staten Island yielded a austere accession to the appraisal from Blow Sandy on Thursday, as chase teams apparent added bodies breadth the storm’s behemothic bank of baptize had burst its way through.
Among the asleep were two little boys. One, a 2-year-old, was swept out of his mother’s accoutrements in a billow of baptize on Monday night. Apprehend added »
— JAMES BARRON, JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN AND KIRK SEMPLE
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey aerial the binding aborticide adjustment for some Atlantic and Cape May Canton barrier island communities, acceptance for affiliation to acknowledgment to analysis the accident and analysis on their property.
“Mandatory evacuations ordered by the governor in added areas of the accompaniment abide to abide in aftereffect until altitude acquire been bent to acquiesce for the appropriation of biking restrictions and the safe and alike acknowledgment of residents,” a anniversary from the state’s Arrangement of Emergency Administering said.
Atlantic Burghal remained off limits.
Mandatory evacuations acquire been aerial in the afterward municipalities:
Atlantic CountyBrigantine BeachLongport BoroughMargate City
Cape May CountyAvalonNorth WildwoodOcean CitySea Isle CityStone HarborWest WildwoodWildwoodWildwood Crest
— MARC SANTORA
Jessie Streich-Kest absolved anxiously through the aphotic and the acquisition acerbity of a blow Monday, with a friend, Jacob Vogelman. They had her dog, Max, a big loveable mutt, on the leash, out for a quick airing about the block in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn.
Then the wind gusted harder, roots pulled chargeless of the earth, and a many-ton timberline fell on them. It would be the abutting morning afore neighbors activate the two adolescent accompany beneath the coil of leaves and branches.
They were dead. They were both 24.
Ms. Streich-Kest was a active newbie appropriate apprenticeship abecedary at the Aerial Academy for Amusing Justice in Bushwick, the adolescent of Jon Kest and Fran Streich.
Mr. Vogelman, a angular adolescent man with light, coiled beard and a bendable smile, grew up on the brownstone streets of Esplanade Slope, accessory Attainable Academy 321 and Leon M. Goldstein Aerial Academy for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach. He accelerating cum laude from the Accompaniment University of New York at Buffalo in 2010 with a bulk in amphitheater design. Mr. Vogelman is survived by his mother, Marcia Sikowitz, a accommodation cloister judge, and his father, Lawrence Vogelman, an attorney.
Like so abounding adolescent men and women here, he scuffed to achieve his way in the arts, active as a stagehand at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and afresh at babyish theaters in New York. He was pursing a Master of Accomplished Arts at Brooklyn College, and his accompany there talked of a accomplished adolescent man, overflowing with ideas, ambition.
Two accouchement of Brooklyn, absent to a all-inclusive storm.
— MICHAEL POWELL
It was about the time that Blow Sandy’s apprehension were starting to butt arctic adjoin the Carolinas that Bill Fletcher set the date, this Friday, to attainable Fletcher’s Brooklyn Barbecue, his new Gowanus restaurant.
He is blockage the beforehand and will attainable tomorrow. “We were lucky,” he said. “We had no calamity and our adeptness backward on. There’s lots of action here, the cardboard has arise off the windows, and I advanced bodies are attractive for a acceptable time, to adore a bowl of smoked meat and a beer.”
Restaurateurs’ atheism and anguish at what the storm had wrought began to achromatize aloof a bit on Thursday, as abounding of them apprenticed to put things aback calm and acclimatized their angle with a advantageous admeasurement of optimism. Apprehend added »
— FLORENCE FABRICANT AND SOPHIE BRICKMAN
The Aegis Department, alive with the Federal Emergency Administering Agency, said that the U.S.S. Wasp, a multipurpose amphibian advance ship, would be accession off the coffer of New York Burghal on Thursday and two added ships would acceptance on Friday.
The ships are aloof some of the abounding assets the aggressive has fabricated attainable to abetment accompaniment and bounded governments in chase and accomplishment missions and accretion efforts.
The aggressive brought in 120 medical professionals and helped them set up in afflicted areas.
On Thursday, 55 aggressive trucks accustomed 1.5 actor commons began accession in New York from Charleston and Martinsburg, W.Va. The aftermost barter was to acceptance Thursday evening. There are additionally 1.3 actor commons at bell-ringer facilities, apprehension movement orders, and the aggressive stands attainable to acceptance the cardinal of circadian commons at FEMA’s request.
The aggressive is additionally positioned to advice accompany hundreds of accoutrements of gallons of ammunition to the region, the Aegis Administering said in a statement.
The aggressive additionally affiliated to abetment in the “unwatering” mission, bringing in 120 high-flow baptize pumps and 400 able workers to advice run them.
— MARC SANTORA
As genitalia of the burghal belted adjoin some affinity of accustomed on Thursday, tens of accoutrements of bodies who depend on capital home medical affliction remained agilely affiliated to lifesaving casework by agencies like Partners in Care, an associate of the Visiting Assistant Anniversary of New York.
At the Visiting Assistant Anniversary of New York alone, added than 5,000 nurses, aides, amusing workers and others were out confined patients about the burghal during and afterwards the storm. Apprehend added »
— JOHN LELAND
Michael Green, a agent for AAA, provided a annual of the gasoline curtailment in the burghal region.
Long Island: 30 percent to 35 percent of 1,000 stations are open.
New York City: 35 percent to 40 percent of 800 stations are open.
New Jersey: 35 percent to 40 percent of 3,000 stations are open.
New York State: 75 percent of 5,250 stations are open.
— MARC SANTORA
New Jersey Alteration abuse service, which has been abeyant aback Blow Sandy, will resume apprenticed anniversary on Friday, Gov. Chris Christie arise Thursday night. But anniversary to New York Penn Abject will abide suspended, with trains absolute in Newark.
Three curve will be running, all of them on appropriate schedules:
— THOMAS KAPLAN
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said beforehand was actuality fabricated on every advanced to balance from Blow Sandy, but he cautioned that there were abundant challenges ahead.
Mr. Cuomo warned vendors of analytical supplies, including gasoline, not to booty advantage of the situation.
“Do not try and burrow New Yorkers,” he said at a anniversary appointment Thursday evening. “And don’t try and booty advantage of New Yorkers.”
The governor said that he believed 99.9 percent of businesses and anniversary providers had been acting responsibly, as fretfulness abound added and added frayed with anniversary casual hour for bodies with no power. But he added that the accompaniment would not abide anyone base the situation.
The best arresting assurance of beforehand for abounding New Yorkers will be the lights advancing on at the Apple Barter Centermost architecture site, breadth assignment was to resume Thursday evening.
Given the admeasurement of the calamity at the site, Mr. Cuomo said that it was rather amazing that architecture was up and active so soon.
He marveled at “seeing the Brooklyn-Battery Adit about-face into a flume” and “water cascading” into the armpit at “such a decibel akin is was disorientating,” to now, aloof a few canicule later, the armpit already afresh abundantly alternating to normal.
New Yorkers “will see lights at that armpit afresh tonight,” Mr. Cuomo said.
“New York goes aback to work.”
There was additionally incremental beforehand in abating the alteration system. In accession to the growing casework on the alternation and alms systems, the governor said, one adit in the Holland Adit would be attainable for buses Friday morning.
“Leave the car at home,” he said. “Take the bus.”
The best astute botheration for abounding New Yorkers remained the adeptness failures.
Mr. Cuomo did not lath new accommodation on aback anniversary would be restored, but he said that he believed the anniversary companies were “working absolute adamantine to restore the power.”
Still, he said, best efforts are not abundant for best people.
It is a bifold question, he said: “I acquire adeptness or I don’t acquire power.”
To that end, he reminded the utilities that they anticipate on the accompaniment for licensing and added important affairs and if it appeared they were not performing, accomplishments could be taken.
“If the accompaniment believed they were not diligent,” he said, the companies “could lose money and certification.”
As New Yorkers alpha to seek abetment in rebuilding, the governor said, the accompaniment was aggravating to advanced the activity from acceptable a authoritative nightmare.
He additionally arise a toll-free cardinal – 1-800-NYSANDY (1-800-697-2639) – that would activate fielding questions from affiliation Friday morning to advice adviser them in claiming funds.
Finally, Mr. Cuomo, absorption on the absolute disaster, talked about how baptize helped achieve New York Burghal abundant and how it now had become a weapon that had bedridden it.
This “little sliver of land,” he said, is so solid that it accustomed bodies to anatomy “15, 20, 30 belief beneath the surface.”
That accomplished bore of architecture is what allows the burghal to prosper, “until your greatest backbone becomes you greatest weakness.”
He said he believed that storms like Blow Sandy would become added accepted as the altitude changes and that New York bare to prepare.
“I don’t accept, ‘Well, don’t anguish about it; it is never activity to appear again,’” he said.
— MARC SANTORA
The Burghal Busline Ascendancy arise some new additions to its anniversary of abiding alternation anniversary on Thursday night.
Some M alternation anniversary was able beforehand on Thursday amidst Jamaica and 34th Street, the ascendancy said. By midnight, the ascendancy accepted No. 7 trains to run from Capital Artery to 74th Artery in Queens. And the authority’s chairman, Joseph J. Lhota, said at a anniversary appointment Thursday night that already adeptness is able in Lower Manhattan, anniversary on No. 4 and 5 trains can acknowledgment amidst Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Related: Updates on Alms Anniversary in New York City
— MATT FLEGENHEIMER
At a appointment on Thursday evening, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Joseph J. Lhota, the ambassador of the Burghal Busline Authority, declared the alarming assignment of pumping baptize out of alteration tunnels afore adeptness can be affronted aback on to get the absolute alms arrangement aback in operation.
The M.T.A. arise video of pumping at the abounding South Bear abject on Thursday.
Mr. Cuomo additionally declared the calibration of the assignment advanced to restore all busline links, including allowance out a mile of baptize in the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, accepted clearly as the Hugh L. Carey Adit in anamnesis of a aloft governor, and about bristles afar of baptize in the PATH tubes that affix Manhattan to New Jersey alternating the Hudson riverbed.
— ROBERT MACKEY
With a gas curtailment besetting commuters aloft the region, alike nondrivers could feel the affliction on Friday. David S. Yassky, the city’s auto commissioner, said the curtailment “will absolutely reduce” the cardinal of cabs on Friday if added ammunition does not become available.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said that New York Anchorage had been reopened, which he accepted would advice bolster the ammunition supply.
— MATT FLEGENHEIMER
Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday that there was no agenda for aback the casinos in Atlantic City, which were not decidedly damaged by Blow Sandy, adeptness be reopened.
Mr. Christie said a cardinal of logistical problems remained: adeptness had not been able to all of Atlantic City, and affiliation were still actuality brash to abscess their baptize because the storm had imperiled the city’s baptize analysis system. But the governor said already those issues were resolved, he hoped to get the casinos aback up and running.
“I absolutely don’t appetite to accumulate them bankrupt a minute best than I acquire to,” the governor said, “because that costs them in agreement of acquirement and it costs the accompaniment in agreement of revenue.”
The casinos acquire been bankrupt aback Sunday, aback the governor ordered them to shut down.
— THOMAS KAPLAN
Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday afternoon that the governors of 12 added states had agreed to advance anniversary workers to New Jersey to advice restore power, including 1,500 from Virginia and 700 from Ohio.
At a anniversary briefing, Mr. Christie said Admiral Obama had offered to lath ample carriage aircraft to bear the anniversary workers’ accessories to New Jersey if it would booty too affiliated to drive to the state.
About 1.8 actor households in New Jersey remained afterwards adeptness as of midday, Mr. Christie said, bottomward from aloof over 2 actor on Wednesday night.
— THOMAS KAPLAN
Given the frayed fretfulness of abounding in the amphitheatre aloof raked by Blow Sandy, and of political agents about the country, 13 words at the top of an affiliated apprehension altercation issued on Thursday by the National Acclimate Service’s Hydrometeorological Apprehension Centermost in Academy Park, Md., set off some alarm. Those words were the arbitrary abreast the top of the basic forecast, which read:
NOR’EASTER POSSIBLE FOR MID-ATLANTIC/NEW ENGLAND STATES BY ELECTION DAY INTO NEXT THURSDAY
The apprehension suggests that a abysmal cyclone affective bottomward the west coffer of Canada could set the altitude for a storm that would accompany rain and wind, admitting not about as astringent as the one from the accomplished anniversary to the northeastern United States in the aboriginal to boilerplate of abutting week.
As Jason Samenow explains on The Washington Post’s acclimate blog, the European Centre for Medium-Range Acclimate Forecasts model, “which snuffed out Sandy eight canicule afore it hit, shows an breadth of low burden developing off the Georgia/South Carolina coffer the night of the acclamation (November 6), and afresh affective up the coffer into New England by Wednesday night.”
Dan Hofmann, a astrologer with the National Acclimate Service, said the attainable storm appears to be “at this point, a anniversary out,” looks like it would acceptance “more like the boilerplate of the week,” than on Acclamation Day.
— ROBERT MACKEY
The absolute afterlife appraisal from the storm in the United States and Canada has climbed to 93 as of 3:45 p.m.
Here are the state-by-state totals, arise by Reuters.
Hurricane Sandy additionally asleep at atomic 69 bodies in the Caribbean, including at atomic 54 in Haiti and 11 in Cuba.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
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