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Bloomberg: Some 143,000 New Yorkers Get Different Post-Storm Voting Sites

Some 143,000 New York City voters will be reassigned to different polling sites for Tuesday's U.S. presidential election in the wake of superstorm Sandy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday. The Board of Elections informed him of the plan, Bloomberg told a press conference on the recovery from Sandy. "Over the next day it's going to be critical that the Board of Elections communicate this to their poll workers," he said. "Unfortunately, there is a history of not communicating changes ...

Massive Housing Relief Needed After Sandy As Cold Sets In

With freezing temperatures forecast, tens of thousands of people hit by superstorm Sandy need temporary housing, New York officials said on Sunday, but it was not immediately clear where they could all be sheltered. The number of homes and businesses without power has fallen to 1.9 million from a peak of 8.5 million since Sandy slammed the U.S. East Coast on Monday, authorities said early Sunday. But nearly 1 million people in New Jersey and almost 730,000 in New York state are still ...

Lakewood: 'Recharge!' Free Supper & Entertainment Event For Those Without Power

Recharge yourselves, recharge your children’s appetites, and recharge your cell phones! There are still thousands of Lakewood residents who do not have power at their houses. The basics we can offer our Lakewood families who are still in the dark are warm meals, working bathrooms, a place to charge their cell phones and devices, and a chance to get out of their dark houses and enjoy themselves. Therefore, the thousands of Lakewood families who still are suffering without power are invited ...

NYU Hospital Outpatients Back Monday, Emergency Room Closed

New York University's Langone Medical Center plans to reopen its doctors' offices and out-patient procedure and testing sites on Monday but its emergency department remains closed after the hospital lost power due to Hurricane Sandy. The hospital, which was forced to evacuate its patients on Monday night, said on Sunday that it had no update yet on when it would be able to start taking in over-night patients again or when its emergency department would be back up and running. In a ...

SHOCK REPORT: Queens Boro President: LIPA Says 7 Weeks To Restore Rockaway Power

The following is via the Queens Chronicle: The Rockaways won't have electricity back for seven weeks, Queens Borough President Helen Marshall claimed she has been told by LIPA. In an interview with 1010 WINS radio, Marshall said the reason she was given was that a transformer had blown. The 1010 WINS interviewer pointed out that the Long Island Power Authority has said that its customers still without electricity would get it back within days, and asked Marshall to clarify her answer. ...

NY Governor: Fuel Shortage Will Continue for Days

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says officials expect the fuel shortage that has led to long lines and short tempers to continue for days. He said Sunday that authorities aren’t “100 percent sure” when the shortage will end but that it’s a short-term problem. Cuomo says the fuel delivery and distribution problems from Superstorm Sandy are easing and that more gas is coming to the area and will be distributed. He urges people to not use their cars if they don’t have to and not to ...

Lights In Lower Manhattan, Misery In Outer Regions

The lights were back on Saturday in lower Manhattan, prompting screams of sweet relief from residents who had been plunged into darkness for nearly five days by Superstorm Sandy. But that joy contrasted with deepening resentment in the city's outer boroughs and suburbs over a continued lack of power and maddening gas shortages. Adding to the misery of those without power, heat or gasoline were dipping temperatures. Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged older residents without heat to move to ...

U.S. Disaster Relief In A Race Against Freezing Cold

Fuel supplies headed toward disaster zones in the U.S. Northeast on Saturday and a million customers regained electricity as near freezing temperatures threatened to add to the misery of coastal communities devastated by superstorm Sandy. President Barack Obama, neck-and-neck in opinion polls with Republican rival Mitt Romney three days before the general election, told emergency response officials to cut through government "red tape" and work without delay to help ravaged areas return to ...

NYC Hospitals Totally Unprepared For Disasters

Kim Bondy was in New Orleans seven years ago when Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, and scores of patients died in flooded hospitals cut off from power. She never thought that she might face that danger herself. But on Monday night, as superstorm Sandy submerged parts of New York City, Bondy was one of 215 patients evacuated from New York University's Langone Medical Center after basement flooding from the East River cut off its electricity. "Knowing everything that happened in New ...

State Farm Flies Planes Towing Phone Number Over NY, NJ

State Farm, the largest U.S. home and auto insurer, said it would start flying two planes over areas affected by superstorm Sandy on Saturday, towing a banner with its claims number. The planes will fly from sunrise to sunset, with one covering the greater New York City area and the other the New Jersey coast. The insurer has already received nearly 76,000 claims for what is expected to be the second-worst natural disaster in U.S. history after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The Consumer ...

Power Returns To Lower Manhattan, But Many Waiting

Fuel flowed toward disaster victims on Saturday and the lower Manhattan skyline lit up for the first time since superstorm Sandy slammed into the U.S. Northeast, while people in devastated coastal areas endured more hardship. The power restorations allowed 80 percent of the New York City subway service to resume, and 8 million gallons of fuel have been delivered since the New York Harbor reopened on Friday, Governor Andrew Cuomo said. Another 28 million gallons would be delivered this ...

Bloomberg Lashes Out At LIPA Over Response To Rockaways

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg lashed out on Saturday at the Long Island-based power company that serves some of New York City's outer neighborhoods for making inadequate progress restoring power to thousands of residents in the dark since superstorm Sandy struck on Monday night. At a press briefing, Bloomberg said the Long Island Power Authority, LIPA, "has not acted aggressively enough" in its power restoration efforts, particularly in bringing electricity back to the Rockaways, a series ...

With Can-Do Stance On Marathon, Mayor Misreads NYC

Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to sell the New York City Marathon as a symbolic victory for the city after a devastating storm, invoking two of the biggest symbols of them all — Rudy Giuliani and 9/11. The former mayor, Bloomberg said, made the right decision by holding the marathon less than two months after the 2001 terror attacks: "It pulled people together, and we have to find some ways to express ourselves and show our solidarity with each other." Then, he kept talking. "You have ...

Power Returning After Sandy But Gas Problems Rise

More New Yorkers got power Saturday for the first time since Superstorm Sandy struck the region, but frustrations mounted over gasoline shortages as refueling sites turned into traffic jams of horn-honking confusion. Gas rationing went into effect in northern New Jersey, while crowds lined up at free fuel distribution sites in New York's boroughs, where a limit of 10 gallons per person was imposed. New York officials then said emergency vehicles had the priority over the public. "It's chaos, ...

BLOOMBERG CAVES: Marathon Cancelled [5:00PM Friday]

Sources confirm to YWN that Mayor Bloomberg has caved into pressure, and has decided to cancel the Marathon, which was scheduled for this Sunday. Bloomberg was facing a growing backlash on Friday over his determination to press ahead with the marathon on Sunday. Despite the city's ongoing cleanup operation and the escalating death toll from Hurricane Sandy, Bloomberg remained defiant, insisting the event would take place. "We have to find some way to express ourselves and show solidarity ...

Fuel 'Panic' Grows Even As Ports Open, Waivers Given

A third day of "panic buying" of gasoline among Sandy-struck New York area motorists o n F riday prompted action from authorities, who waived shipping regulations even as pipelines and oil tankers resumed limited shipments. The U.S. government waived the Jones Act barring foreign-flagged vessels from carrying fuel between U.S. ports in a bid to boost supplies from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he would temporarily lift tax and registration requirements ...

Arrogant Bloomberg: NYC Marathon Will Go On

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the New York City Marathon will go on despite storm-related objections. Bloomberg discussed the marathon Friday while giving a briefing on the storm. He says New York has to show that "we are here and we are going to recover." Bloomberg says the marathon will "give people something to cheer about" after a "dismal week." Bloomberg is coming under increasing attack by elected officials for his decision to have the marathon  which start just a few blocks ...