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Storm-Hit Gasoline Stations Lose Power, Some Run Dry

More than half of all gasoline service stations in the New York City area and New Jersey were shut on Wednesday because of power outages and depleted fuel supplies, frustrating attempts to restore normal life in the wake of powerful storm Sandy, industry officials said. Reports of long lines, dark stations and empty tanks circulated across the region on Wednesday, with some station owners unable to pump fuel due to a lack of power. Others quickly ran their tanks dry because of intensified ...

Bellevue Hospital Evacuating About 500 Patients [UPDATED]

- New York City's Bellevue Hospital Center, which has been operating on backup generators since massive storm Sandy pummeled the city, is being evacuated, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Wednesday. About 500 patients at the city hospital near the East River in Manhattan are affected. Bellvue has one of the busiest emergency departments in the city. Several area hospitals, including The Mount Sinai Hospital and St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, have agreed to take some of ...

DETAILS: NYC Subway, Bus, Rail Options For Thursday

The MTA will resume limited subway service Thursday as crews continue working to pump water out of flooded stations and tunnels throughout the city, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. Buses will supplement subway service between downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan. There will be no subway service between 34th Street in Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn due to power outages. Limited Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road service will resume Wednesday afternoon. Here's a full list of subway, commuter rail, ...

Bloomberg Implements Traffic Restrictions to Facilitate Sandy Recovery

The City is implementing traffic restrictions due to gridlock. Four East River bridges will be restricted to vehicles with three or more people for Thursday and Friday, 6 a.m. to midnight. GWB is not impacted. The mayor is encouraging people to use bus to get into Manhattan. (YWN Desk - NYC)

VIDEO & PHOTO GALLERY: 'War-Zone' In Sea Gate Community Caused By Hurricane Sandy [UPDATED]

[VIDEO & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] (Re-posted from Tuesday morning & video added below) These photos will give the readers a view of the destruction in the Sea Gate area of Brooklyn. Surrounded by water on three sides, the surge completely covered the gated community, home to many Frum families. Bichasdei Hashem, most people had evacuated, and were not in their homes when the storm tore through the area. Although there were no injuries reported, the destruction ...

Hurricane Sandy: Updates For Far Rockaway / Bayswater / 5 Towns Communities [2:00PM EST Wednesday]

The following was sent to YWN by the Achiezer Organization: The following important update should be shared and forwarded with anyone that you know in the Far Rockaway and Five Towns area. Water: The tap water in the Woodmere area was thought to have had contamination issues last night. As of 10:45 AM this morning the Village of Lawrence representatives have informed us that the water in the Five Towns is not contaminated, and is potable. Electricity: Unfortunately there is no ...

Romney Limits Attacks On Obama As U.S. Recovers From Sandy

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney held back from his usual attacks on President Barack Obama on Wednesday, as his campaign offered a more upbeat message with the East reeling from the storm Sandy. As Obama travels to New Jersey to survey the damage with Republican Governor Chris Christie, Romney staged a show of strength in Florida, the most populous swing state where polls show him narrowly ahead. He was joined by two of the most important politicians in the state, Republican ...

Some Good News: NYC Subways To Reopen Thursday With Limited Runs [UPDATED]

New York City's subway system will resume limited operations on Thursday, four days after it was shut down ahead of the arrival of Sandy, the massive storm that brought unprecedented flooding to the world's financial capital, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said. Limited service on suburban commuter rail lines serving Long Island to the east and Westchester County and Connecticut to the north was to resume on Wednesday afternoon, Cuomo said at a press conference. Trains were to begin ...

National Guard Evacuating People, Taking In Food To NJ City

National Guard trucks rolled into this city on the Hudson River to deliver ready-to-eat meals and other supplies and to evacuate young professionals and other residents who decided that after two days stranded by floodwaters, they wanted out. The mayor issued an appeal for people to bring boats to City Hall to help take people from their condo high-rises, brownstones and other homes as an increasing number of calls came in from people asking to be evacuated. "We are doing what we can but ...

Message For Far Rockaway Community From Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder

The Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula and the Rockaway Civilian Safety Patrol has set up a command center at the Young Israel of Wavecrest & Bayswater located at 2716 Healy Ave in Far Rockaway, NY. At this location there will be 24hr personal assistance to help the community members of Far Rockaway and Bayswater with their immediate needs. Members at this location are working in conjunction with NYPD's 101 precinct, RCSP, JCCRP food bank, Achiezer, Hatzalah and ...

NYC: 760,000 Con-Ed Customers Still Without Power

New York power company Consolidated Edison Inc said Wednesday it had restored power to over 160,000 of the 930,000 total customers knocked out by Hurricane Sandy, leaving about 764,000 still without power. Sandy hit the U.S. East Coast Monday night and left almost 8.5 million homes and businesses without power in 21 states from North Carolina to Maine and as far west as Illinois, which surpassed the 8.4 million customers left in the dark by Hurricane Irene last year. Sandy knocked out ...

VIDEOS: NYPD Chopper Performs Rooftop Rescues Of Storm Victims

[VIDEOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] The NYPD has released video of four rooftop rescues on Staten Island of residents who were trapped due to rising waters. It shows police lowering a basket to the victims and pulling them up. In one video an officer is lowered on a line to a rooftop where a person is lying. The officer huddles over the victim, who eventually sits up. A basket is lowered and the person is pulled up to the helicopter. In all, five adults and one child were removed to ...

VIDEO: Agudah of Bayswater Destroyed By Hurricane Sandy - Help Them Rebuild!

[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Among the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, the Agudah in Bayswater was unfortunately destroyed. Sadly, the Shul had just last week completed renovations caused by last years Hurricane Irene when this calamity struck. According to a source at the Shul, the shul was flooded by the storm surge coming from the bay, and the pumps placed in and around the shul couldn't keep up with the floodwaters. The shul very quickly filled with 6 feet of water - as seen by ...

In Darkened NYC, Safety On The List Of Concerns

Faced with the prospect of days without power and swaths of the city plunged into darkness at night, police brought in banks of lights and boosted patrols to reassure victims of a monster storm that they won't be victims of crime. Some prominent galleries in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood hired private security and apartment building superintendents suddenly became guards. In Coney Island, about 100 police officers stood on corners or cruised in cars to guard a strip of vandalized stores ...

Obama To Visit Storm Victims As Campaign Rolls On

President Barack Obama, locked in a fierce re-election bid, is emphasizing his incumbent's role for a third straight day, skipping battleground states to visit victims of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey, a state he's confident of winning. The president's actions have forced his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, to walk a careful line and make tough choices. The former Massachusetts governor must show respect for the superstorm's casualties all along the Eastern Seaboard. But Romney can ill ...

A Message From Nachum Segal & 'JM In The AM'

To our friends/listeners around the world: For the 2nd consecutive day we are unable to present the 'JM in the AM' radio show. Our home base in Jersey City and both our 91.1 and 90.1 transmitter sites are without power. In addition, our first five remote backup studios in NJ/NY are all powerless. We are trying to get a JM stream going from our Baltimore backup studio. We are hoping that will happen on Wednesday. Meanwhile to our thousands of East Coast friends who are in tough spots, you ...

ConEd Prepped For Big Storm, Got Even Bigger One

Blame a very high tide driven by a full moon, the worst storm surge in nearly 200 years, and the placement of underground electrical equipment in flood-prone areas for the most extensive storm-related power outage in New York City's history. It's like what happened at the Fukushima nuclear complex in Japan last year — without the radiation. At a Consolidated Edison substation in Manhattan's East Village, a gigantic wall of water defied elaborate planning and expectations, swamped ...