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If predictions hold, it will start snowing lightly in just about an hour or two, and by the end of the evening, there could be anywhere from 1-3″ of snow on the ground. So get those shovels ready! The City has issued warnings for the evening rush hour, saying that
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Barclays in the snow (Photo by Nathan Haselby)Well, winter is finally, truly, here. Tomorrow will see the first snow of the season, with 3-5 inches predicted to accumulate throughout the day, starting around 4:00 am and continuing throughout the day, into the night. Temperatures will be just above
News
A Committee on Recovery and Resiliency Oversight Hearing earlier this year (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Only 34 of the 60 accessible emergency shelters promised by NYC Emergency Management are complete—and they were originally ordered to be finished last month. After Hurricane Sandy, a New York court found that the city
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Photo/ Zainab IqbalDOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – “Please excuse me, I just came from the hospital. My daughter, 11-years-old, had a nervous breakdown because I was talking to somebody about Hurricane Sandy. My daughter was only six years old. I almost lost my daughter,” said Rachel Rivera, a Brooklynite. Thousands of people gathered
Business
October 29 marks the five year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. BKLYNER interviewed local business owners who were affected by the historic storm about their experiences and lessons learned. Via FacebookRED HOOK – Mark Ehrhardt founded Movers, Not Shakers! [http://moversnotshakers.com], an environmentally friendly moving business, from his home in 2002.
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New York City Emergency Management Commissioner Joseph Esposito unveils a six-foot high water mark sign, Wednesday, October 26, 2017, at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Coney IslandCONEY ISLAND– As the time passes, it’s easy to forget just how much water came into the city during the storm surge.
Coney Island
The haphazard construction site at the Surfside Gardens Community Center in Coney Island (Kyle Kucharski / BKLYNER)CONEY ISLAND – This October marks the five-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy’s destructive landfall here in New York, yet some areas of the city seem to have been more neglected in recovery efforts. The
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NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island. (Photo/Zainab Iqbal)CONEY ISLAND – When disasters strike, community hospitals become more important than ever – it’s where neighbors know to go for help, where the pharmacy has life-saving medications when all the others are closed, and, where we hope the lights will not go
Business
RED HOOK – Few neighborhoods in Brooklyn were hit as hard by Superstorm Sandy as Red Hook. Below we talked to residents and businesses about then and now, and whether they feel ready should another storm strike. A street in Red Hook after Hurricane Sandy (Photo courtesy of Scott Pfaffman and
Business
October 29 marks the five year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. BKLYNER interviewed local business owners who were affected by the historic storm about their experiences and lessons learned. Jane’s Carousel flooded by Hurricane Sandy (Photo Credit: Ana Andjelic, courtesy of Jane Walentas)DUMBO – After more than 25 years of
Business
October 29 marks the five year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. BKLYNER interviewed local business owners who were affected by the historic storm about their experiences and lessons learned. Photo courtesy of PowerHouseDUMBO – The PowerHouse Arena [https://www.powerhousearena.com/] was one of the pioneering businesses in DUMBO—the picturesque, waterfront
Central Brooklyn
Hurricane Sandy Effects-Emmons AvenueBROOKLYN – October 29 marks the five year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy hitting New York City. The powerful storm caused the deaths of 43 New York City residents [http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/17/nyregion/hurricane-sandy-map.html] —seven fatalities were in Brooklyn, and caused $19 billion