The 41-floor New Yorker Hotel on Eighth Avenue in New York City has 912 rooms. That's only one room short of what it would take to house the 913 New Yorkers still living in hotels in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
The acting CEO of Long Island's biggest power company resigned on Tuesday, as nearly 40,000 of his customers still don't have electricity more than two weeks after the destruction left by Hurricane Sandy.
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Daily News employees on Monday were told to expect their offices at 4 New York Plaza to be out of commission for nine months.
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Today in celebrity gossip: We must not forget how the rich and famous have bravely endured Hurricane Sandy, Michelle Duggar has a brand new look, and Taylor and Conor still have a chance.
Just a week after the one of the most destructive storms to hit the Northeast in years, the New York State Office of Emergency Management finds itself without a director. That's because Governor Andrew Cuomo just fired him.
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Discovered: Borneo orangutans exhibit Ebola-like antibodies; NOAA's post-Sandy map of the East Coast; climate change could curtail Indian monsoons; bat-proofing wind turbines.
Reuters on African penguins, The New York Times on fake beaches, NPR on Norfolk, VA and rising sea levels, The Washington Post on geoengineering, and The Daily Climate on women in climate science.
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Hurricane Sandy threw a monkey wrench into New York and New Jersey's voting logistics by flooding polling sites, cutting power at others, and rendering some unusable. But we are humans and we have plan b's, and these are the ways New Jersey and New York responded:
As we mentioned last week there's another storm headed our way. Though it's going to be nowhere near as damaging as Sandy—as we wrote then, don't freak—there's an added problem with this storm, which is going to bring cold air and rain, heavy gusts of wind, and possible snow to the Northeast.
Hurricane Sandy is being touted as the reason Mitt Romney lost his mojo, the reason people are being nice in New York again, and perhaps most significantly—the galvanizing reason that there's bipartisan cognizance of climate change in an election season that largely ignored it. We beg to disagree on the latter: that might have to go to Donald Trump.
The largest public housing project in Brooklyn was ravaged by the storm, and the majority of residents did not evacuate despite warnings. In a matter of hours, Occupy Wall Street and The Red Hook Initiative banded together to help out.
The post-Sandy challenges aren't over by any means, even while a literal light at the end of the tunnel has appeared for more than a few with the reinstating of power in most of downtown Manhattan. A more metaphorical light is in the way a lot of New Yorkers have dealt with the natural disaster and its aftermath.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the tanned, big-haired, six-packed stars of MTV's Jersey Shore, will be putting their dubious fame to good use to rebuild the site that once served as the staging ground for their exploits.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said yesterday that its dewatering task force removed more than an Olympic-size swimming pool's worth of water per minute from New York's flooded mass transit tunnels.
The state of the subway subway map looks a lot less depressing today, with the MTA opening lines over the weekend and this morning, but commuters still face long lines and crowds.
When you cancel a marathon, like the New York City Marathon on Friday, you're left with a bunch of bottled water, generators, mylar blankets, and lots of energy-giving foods like apples and peanuts. But instead of sending them to the Rockaways or Staten Island, much of those supplies sat unused at the finish line Sunday.
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The election is still a day away, but the political pundits who might be on the losing side are already preparing their excuses for what went wrong.
In the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, there's some worry in New Jersey that people won't be able to cast their ballots on electronic voting machines. In the interest of preparedness, Gov. Chris Christie has authorized some funny alternative methods for people to exercise their right to vote.
The cover for this week's New Yorker was revealed last night, and it's definitely one you should not miss.
The gas situation in New York is getting seriously dire. Reports of line ups eight blocks long are not uncommon. We've seen stories of people pushing empty cars through long lines for some gas. Gov. Andrew Cuomo came out this morning and told everyone to chill out. There's more coming.
Following New York City's experience with a devastating, city-changing hurricane, many have drawn some parallels between New Orleans after Katrina and post-Sandy New York this week. Perhaps nothing drives that point home better than the moving Tumblr Nola to New York.
In the book publishing industry, Sandy's impact has been felt, with downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn stores closed, tens of thousands of dollars in damages sustained, and struggles to regain basic functionality and get things moving again in the business of publishing in general. And then there are the writers.
The Lower East Side, the East Village, and Chelsea all have power.
Whether the event is corny or not, shame on us for being so cynical and steeped in ironic detachment that we'd pooh-pooh a fundraiser for storm-ravaged people simply because it wasn't cool or self-conscious enough.
Sandy came, ravaged New York City, and then left us with the following question: How can we better prepare the city for future storms?
On this Friday, there are two kinds of long lines forming in New York City: one to get to work on what public transportion is available and another to buy Apple's latest dood-dad, the iPad Mini.
Let's hope that we can't call it this for very long, but for the moment, the neighborhood-name coinage that appears to be Sandy's legacy to New Yorkers is "SoPo."
Those nifty generators are instead being used for the not-so-dire task of lighting up a media tent 24/7 and that's what has people so angry this morning.
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsed President Obama for reelection Thursday, while the country is watching Bloomberg, Obama, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie work together to clean up after Hurricane Sandy.
It looks like the Con Ed spokesman got our hopes up and despite what he told Bloomberg, Con Ed's twitter account is giving a less optimistic estimate on the state of power in lower Manhattan.
As the recovery from Hurricane Sandy enters its fourth day, the world is becoming painfully aware that New York's oft-neglected borough may have been the community that was hardest hit.
Discovered: Koshik the elephant can say "hello"; turning hurricane research into music; UK officials keep finding illegal waste sites; how to reduce livestock ammonia emissions.
In the face of backlash, the New York Road Runners, organizers of the New York City Marathon, called a press conference today to announce a program called "The Race to Recover," a Hurricane Sandy relief effort, and will start the program off with a $1 million donation.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsed President Obama on Thursday, writing that the massive storm that flooded his city Monday night "brought the stakes of Tuesday’s presidential election into sharp relief."
Sandy wiped out a lot of beach and Governor Chris Christie is determined to rebuild all of his Jersey Shore, even if it is bad for the environment.
The images of Sandy that are dominating the airwaves have morphed from darkened skylines and flooded subway tracks into a new kind of menace: pictures that hearken back to the disastrous economic troubles of the 1970s of cars waiting on endless lines for gasoline
Today in books and publishing: Chelsea's Printed Matter drenched; New York library patrons get week-long extension; D.C. Barnes & Noble to close; happy National Novel Writing Month.
The Daily Show returned last night, and Jon Stewart looked to his news team to compare Hurricane Sandy damage in lower Manhattan versus upper Manhattan.
This morning limited subway service and a bus bridge opened up to New York's commuters, in an attempt to fix some of yesterday's traffic woes. So, how's it working out? Better than yesterday, but not by much.
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After days of not hearing reporters' questions about what he wants to do with FEMA, Mitt Romney's campaign finally released a statement that (sort of) provides an answer.
Each passing minute on Manhattan brings New Yorkers that much closer to restored power, running water and Internet. It also represents thousands of dollars in lost economic activity for the city, thousands that are quickly turning into millions.
In spite of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's confidence that New York hospitals were prepared for a power outage, the backup generators at several area hospitals failed, which experts say is a troubling but not entirely surprising in emergency situations.
Of course President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie care about taking care of people without power or whose homes were washed away by Hurricane Sandy. But what's in their best interest politically lines up quite nicely, too.
It's hard to tell exactly where the cell phone outages are happening without exact information from the wireless companies, but because of the way cell phone technology works, we know that the densest areas with the most power outages and the worst weather damage—i.e., downtown Manhattan—are where cell service is hurting the most.
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