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• On the night of the storm, two workers stood guard until it was no longer safe to do so, at which point they opened the doors of the main dining room so the water would merely rip through rather than accumulate.

  • #river cafe
  • #dumbo
  • #sandy
  11 Nov 2012 / 1 note

• Disaster Tourism?

  Two of the city’s sightseeing companies were running double-decker buses through the hurricane-stricken streets of lower Manhattan on Sunday night, as tourists bundled up in hats and scarves against the evening chill gawked at the ravages of the storm.

  The buses, from CitySights NY and Gray Line New York, were wending their way through the giant, thrumming generators and temporary boilers set up along Water Street and on nearby thoroughfares, through a neighborhood that was starting to smell from the piles of garbage, giant containers of debris and gallons of diesel fuel that have leaked into building basements.

  Between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., more than half a dozen of the buses crawled north through the slow-moving traffic on Water Street.

  As scores of neighborhood residents hauling wheeled suitcases hailed cabs and walked to the subway, the buses wound their way through an obstacle course of Con Ed workers laboring in the middle of the street under floodlights

  Representatives of the companies did not return e-mail messages seeking comment.

  Gross.

  • #sandy
  • #NYC
  4 Nov 2012 / 3 notes
• The people uptown have no clue what’s going on down here,” he said — and he was enjoying himself, in a way. “Come downtown!” he had just written in a text to a friend. ”You will never have an opportunity to see New York like this again — for another year!

  Where the City of Darkness Meets the City of Light
  • #NYC
  • #sandy
  1 Nov 2012 / 7 notes

• what’s open in Battery Park

  

  Wednesday, 7:30pm: We’ve been crazy-lucky. Haven’t lost power, Internet, cell service, anything at all. (Know that every time I say that, I fear I’m tempting fate. Knocking wood once again.)

  What’s even crazier is that our very-immediate neighborhood is running, seemingly, almost normally. Maybe that will change tomorrow or Friday, if all the food runs out. But for now, things are close to normal. (Not to discount any of the damage that’s been done, of course.)

  I’ve had this sense of guilt this entire time, How did we get so lucky, while almost all of lower Manhattan has gone dark?  So I hesitate to even write all this because the last thing I want to sound like is smug. But in the interest of spreading the word, if you haven’t yet headed to the UES or UWS or Brooklyn and you need to refuel, know that the southwest corner of Manhattan is an option, too.

  Starting at Murray St and heading south, here’s what I’ve found: 

  In “Goldman Alley” (between Murray St and Vesey St)

  • Shake Shack: Re-opened this afternoon. Sign said they would stay open till 8ish. (No shakes right now, reports @fimoculous.)

  

  • Harry’s Italian: Opened at 5 today.
  • Vintry Wines: Open.
  • Battery Place Market: Open.
  • Beans & Greens: Open & taking credit cards. 
  • Pick a Bagel: Was open this morning, mobbed.
  • Regal Battery Park Stadium: Open. (Enter on North End Ave.)

  Around the corner:

  • Blue Smoke: Open.
  • North End Grill: Opened at 4 today. 

  

  World Financial Center:

  • Rite Aid: Open.
  • PJ Clarke’s: Open. Had lunch there today with Kate because HowAboutWe’s office in Dumbo is still closed. Cash was “strongly preferred” but I don’t know what their policy was if you only had credit; they weren’t saying “cash only.” Limited menu, paper plates, delicious. First outside meal since Sunday.

  

  

  

  • Starbucks: One of the only places that was closed. (Update: Open as of Thursday morning.)
  • Financier Patisserie: Open. 
  • Devon & Blakely: Open.

  South End Ave:

  • Au Bon Pain: Open.
  • Cafe Express: Open. 
  • Battery Park Pharmacy: Open.
  • Gristedes (315 S End): Open, taking credit and debit (and giving up to $20 cash back). 
  • Bull & Bears Winery: Open.
  • Picasso Pizza: Open. 
  • Hudson Produce: Open.
  • Benvenuti: Open.
  • Gristedes (71 S End): Open — though this one’s cash only.

  That’s as far south as I got, though I heard Inatteso is open as well.

  p.s. Another reminder for friends — if you need a place to shower/internet/etc, we’re happy to have you. We hosted our first refugee today, and Zuki was pretty psyched: 

  

  • #battery park
  • #sandy
  • #nyc
  31 Oct 2012 / 13 notes
• 

  Lunch at PJ Clarke’s: Limited menu, cash only, disposable dishes (except for the fries)… and absolutely delicious. #batterypark #sandy cc @khuyi (at PJ Clarkes)

  • #batterypark
  • #sandy
  31 Oct 2012 / 4 notes
• 

  taylorlorenz:

  Crossing the Williamsburg Bridge. Light vs dark #Sandy

  • #sandy
  30 Oct 2012 / 9 notes
• 

  1 WTC finally went dark not too long ago. Unsettling. 

  • #sandy
  • #1 WTC
  29 Oct 2012 / 12 notes
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  We’re in a pile of blankets on the floor, staying the ef away from windows. #sandy

  • #sandy
  29 Oct 2012 / 2 notes
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  currently.

  • #sandy
  • #entenmann's
  29 Oct 2012 / 6 notes
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  workin’ on a song about Sandy

  • #sandy
  29 Oct 2012 / 3 notes
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  Head right this way for breaking storm updates.

  • #sandy
  28 Oct 2012 / 6 notes
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  Our neighbors are either out of town, or simply do not give a flying (pun intended) f—k. (at Chez Rex)

  • #sandy
  28 Oct 2012 / 8 notes
• 

  thedeadline:

  Starbucks looks like it’s been boarded up by Spider-Man.

  So far, my favorite capture from the storm.

  • #sandy
  28 Oct 2012 / 29 notes

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