Re: (TV) Anyone know how our NY friends are doing?

[Emilie <emilie.t.hsu@gmail.com>]

Red Hook is in bad shape, my friends who live there have suffered a
lot of property damages. People I know who own a small wine store
there have suffered a lot of damages, the store won't open for a
while. I have not been downtown yet - above, say 40th street in
Manhattan, we did not suffer much at all. We didn't lose power, and we
have water. Some buildings, like my office, didn't have heat until
today, but it's not too bad.

Public transportation is still difficult for some people, but everyone
I talked to today said that they had not problem with trains or buses
(that are in service).

As individuals, there is just so little that one can do (other than
helping one's friends or making donations to the usual charities)
because what people actually need as things like water (hot water),
electricity, cell phone connection, schools to reopen, public
transportation and gas. I offered to go help my friends clean their
apartments/stores in Red Hook, but they said that they are okay for
now, and to make the trip down there would be too difficult because
there is still no subway downtown. I wouldn't have minded at all to
walk to the pier and take the ferry there - but they seem to think
that it's a silly idea.

Essentially, I think people generally fall into three groups (1) not
affected at all by the storm, (2) no property damage, but no
water/electricity (may or may not have been evacuated from home) and
(3) people who lost a lot - apartments trashed by the flood, severe
damages to houses, etc.

Most of Manhattan should have power back by the end of this week,
which means also water will be back. Subway will take a while to be
fully functional again. People in suburbs, Staten Island, Long Island,
many places in Jersey (closer to Manhattan, like Hoboken) will take a
while as well.


On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Jesse Hochstadt <jesseh58@yahoo.com> wrote:
> All is fine in Brooklyn Heights - as the name suggests, most of the
> neighborhood is pretty well elevated above water level. There were some minor
> problems with internet and cable, and my cellphone service (Verizon) has been
> a little spotty, but we never lost power. Nearby DUMBO saw some damage, but
> again not too much. I got an e-mail from Galapagos, the club there where I saw
> Tom play a couple of years ago. Their photos showed some unpleasant-looking
> flooding, but apparently volunteers did a great cleanup job and they'll be
> open again tomorrow.
>
> Nearby Red Hook, however, is apparently another story,
> with major water damage to a lot of areas near the waterline. I heard that the
> giant Fairway supermarket there won't be able to reopen for a month.
>
> I walked
> over the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday and took a long walk around parts of lower
> Manhattan. It was ... quiet. I didn't see much destruction, but I didn't walk
> that far east; by the time I got into the Village, I was on Avenue B, whereas
> the storm surge went only as far as Avenue C, I think. When it got dark, you
> could really appreciate the loss of lighting. I confess I kind of liked it
> (I'd brought a flashlight). Broadway looked so medieval. (Sorry.) Most
> businesses were shut down, of course, but a good number of bars were open. I
> popped in to Handsome Dick Manitoba's bar Manitoba's to use the bathroom, and
> it was candlelit and convivial. Same at the Horseshoe Bar/2B/Whatever It's
> Called Nowadays.
>
> The real horrors appear to be going on in Staten Island, the
> Rockaways, and other areas that are low lying, have surface power lines, or
> both. Someone on the radio pointed out that the absence of power has minimized
> TV (and maybe radio?) reporting from those areas, and so we're not getting the
> clearest picture of what's going on.
>
> - Jesse
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>> From: Russ <russvr@gmail.com>
>>To:
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>>Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 11:19 AM
>>Subject: Re: (TV)
> Anyone know how our NY friends are doing?
>>
>>Glad for the check-ins! Keep 'em
> coming. I know you'll return the love when
>>we have our 9.0 earthquake!
>>
>>
>>On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Scott Simpson <SSimpson@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Washington Heights folk fared pretty well.  No flooding or power outages.
>>> But kind of stuck up here with limited transportation.
>>>
>>> -----Original
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>>> Subject: (TV) Anyone know how our NY friends are doing?
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>>>
> Everyone from Tom Verlaine to Dennis, and all the other New York / NYC and
>>>
> New Jersians and all others in Sandy's path.... How the hell you folks
>>>
> doing? Can't stop thinking about the devastation we're seeing on the media.
>>>
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