Carrying essentials home from the donation center.

Santa crying on the porch.

Rockaway, Queens.
November 6th, 2012.

rockawayrecovery:

We learned power will be down for another full week in Far Rockaway. 

Greatest need right now is for volunteers, flashlights & batteries.

Hot food trays and transport are also needed daily.

To drop off donations, please visit New York Communities For Change (NYCC) at 2-4 Nevins St. (Flatbush & Livingston), 2nd Fl, Brooklyn, from 9AM-7PM. 

With questions on how to volunteer or donate food, call NYCC at (347) 410-6919 or email nyccvolunteer@gmail.com.

To the restaurants and friends who continue to supply trays of food for The Church of the Nazarene, you are amazing.

♥

Rockaway, Queens.

November 6th, 2012.

Kyle and Colin found a neighbor’s golf clubs in a trash pile. At dusk, they returned some debris to the ocean.

Rockaway, Queens.
November 6th, 2012.

In the aftermath of Sandy, Boats on roadways became a familiar sight in Rockaway.

The local councilman’s office tells us that with temperatures falling and power still not restored, the greatest need for donations now is blankets and coats, as well as flashlights and batteries. You can help, either in person or through the mail.

Deliver in Person:

The New York Communities For Change (NYCC) office at 2-4 Nevins Street, 2^nd Fl, Brooklyn NY 11217, is collecting donations and transporting them to Far Rockaway twice a day. Stop by between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Have a car? NYCC also needs help to transport donations. Contact Olivia Leirer with NYCC at oleirer@nycommunities.org for more information.

Or, fill a car with donations from friends and deliver these items yourself to:

City Council Member James Sanders’ Office
15-26 Central Avenue #2
Far Rockaway, NY 11691

You can ship donations

to NYCC at the Nevins Street address above, or to:
New York City Council Member James Sanders, Jr.
Attn: Donovan Richards
234-26 Merrick Blvd.
Rosedale, NY 11422

You can also make a cash donation:

New York Communities For Change (NYCC) has started a fundraising page. Go here to donate cash, which will serve Far Rockaway and other hard-hit areas.

http://www.youcaring.com/fundraiser_details?fundraiser_id=13028&url=nycommuni

Rockaway, Saturday after Sandy.

The Red Cross had not yet opened the three temporary mobile kitchens that it announced on Thursday would be set up on Staten Island, in Riis Park in the Rockaways, and at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, the agency confirmed. The kitchens, which can produce 10,000 meals a day, would begin operating by Saturday, it said.

The organization’s response to Hurricane Sandy came under fire from public officials and volunteers, beginning with a televised tirade on Thursday by James P. Molinaro, the Staten Island borough president; he called the agency’s apparent absence from the relief effort an “absolute disgrace” and called on residents to stop donating money to the Red Cross.

Mr. Molinaro described visiting a shelter and seeing people arriving barefoot.

“They were in desperate need,” he said. “Their housing was destroyed. They were crying. Where was the Red Cross? Isn’t that their function?”

[NY Times]

When it comes to feeding locals in need, trust C Squat or #OccupySandy efforts. I know, the donations aren’t as tax deductible, but they get to people who need help.

I know a bunch of people who have busted their asses training to participate in the NYC Marathon who are still living without power, hot water or electricity. There is no efficient public transit running to take them home. The taxis & liveries in NYC are running out of gas as we face a fuel shortage. These people would have to run 26 miles plus the distances from their homes to the start and finish lines, knowing they’re returning to an area with no food, no showers and no heat.

By holding the NY Marathon this weekend, you are taking away a huge accomplishment from your own participants. Postpone ‘til the lights are on. Postpone ‘til every runner can return to a shower.

If some runners want to show up early, there are elderly & sick people trapped in tall buildings who need people to bring water and food to their floors.

tiffanyleigh:

Dear Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Cuomo, NYC Road Runners:

I signed a petition calling to postpone the NYC Marathon on November 4, 2012.

I signed it because it’s ghoulish to continue with running the NYC Marathon in light of the victims of Superstorm Sandy, which stands at 160 in the US, Caribbean, and Canada and is sure to climb.

I signed it because residents, families and citizens are still struggling to survive, stay warm, fed, and safe at the starting line and within walking distance of the marathon route. 

I signed it because the NYC Marathon siphons NYPD and other city workers from crucial ongoing rescue and recovery efforts less than a week after Sandy. 

I signed it because the NYC Marathon places the emphasis on tending to non-residential areas like Central Park, when places like Breezy Point, Staten Island, the Rockaways, Long Island, and Long Beach are devastated. 

And I signed it because if a city can bounce back from Sandy and normally self-proclaims to be the greatest city in the world, it can surely postpone the NY Marathon to a later date. 

I hope you consider the more than 8 million people that comprise this city and that you do the right thing, and postpone the 2012 NYC Marathon.