With city and federal agencies overwhelmed by Sandy, public housing
residents in the "Zone A" evacuation area in Queens and Brooklyn have
set up their own relief efforts, with help from volunteers.
A group calling itself Occupy Sandy teamed up with community groups and the nationwide environmental group 350.org to help residents of northern Queens and southwest Brooklyn.
Workers said Wednesday that the city has given Zone A short shrift in its massive effort to restore transportation and energy and remove downed trees.
Con Edison promised hundreds of thousands of Manhattan and Brooklyn residents in areas with underground wires that energy would be restored within three days, but warned that areas served by above-ground cables would be without power for at least a week.
That means many residents of Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood will be in the dark, with no heat, well into November.
The temperature dipped to 48 degrees Wednesday, but it felt colder, with winds whipping from the surrounding Upper New York Bay.
In Red Hook's gentrifying Northside, families of trick-or-treaters wandered down Columbia Street, where rows of houses surrounded independent bookshops, restaurants and bars. The bike lane connecting the neighborhood to the wealthy Dumbo neighborhood has been swept clean, and was filled with bike riders Wednesday afternoon.
The picture changed south of the overpass, where the toll road to Brooklyn Battery Tunnel divides the neighborhood. A few blocks down, dozens of people lined up around the community group Red Hook Initiative, waiting for hot meals, candles, child and senior care and other goods and services.
Read more: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/11/01/51869.htm
A group calling itself Occupy Sandy teamed up with community groups and the nationwide environmental group 350.org to help residents of northern Queens and southwest Brooklyn.
Workers said Wednesday that the city has given Zone A short shrift in its massive effort to restore transportation and energy and remove downed trees.
Con Edison promised hundreds of thousands of Manhattan and Brooklyn residents in areas with underground wires that energy would be restored within three days, but warned that areas served by above-ground cables would be without power for at least a week.
That means many residents of Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood will be in the dark, with no heat, well into November.
The temperature dipped to 48 degrees Wednesday, but it felt colder, with winds whipping from the surrounding Upper New York Bay.
In Red Hook's gentrifying Northside, families of trick-or-treaters wandered down Columbia Street, where rows of houses surrounded independent bookshops, restaurants and bars. The bike lane connecting the neighborhood to the wealthy Dumbo neighborhood has been swept clean, and was filled with bike riders Wednesday afternoon.
The picture changed south of the overpass, where the toll road to Brooklyn Battery Tunnel divides the neighborhood. A few blocks down, dozens of people lined up around the community group Red Hook Initiative, waiting for hot meals, candles, child and senior care and other goods and services.
Read more: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/11/01/51869.htm
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