![]() ![]() On New York’s Long Island, bulldozers scooped sand off streets and tow trucks hauled away destroyed cars while people tried to find a way to their homes to restart their lives. “No one likes waiting, man, but it’s something you have to do.” “The messed-up part is these people who are blocking the roadway as they try to cut in line,” he said. Most of the state’s mass transit systems remained shut down, leaving hundreds of thousands of commuters to deal with clogged highways and quarter-mile lines at gas stations.ĭarryl Jameson of Toms River waited more than hour to get fuel. “This,” said Harry Typaldos, who owns the Grenville Inn in Mantoloking, “I just can’t comprehend.” Nearly all the homes were seriously damaged, and many had disappeared. In New Jersey, signs of the good life that had defined wealthy shorefront enclaves like Bayhead and Mantoloking lay scattered and broken: $3,000 barbecue grills buried beneath the sand and hot tubs cracked and filled with seawater. We are not going to tolerate bureaucracy.” Chris Christie, one of Mitt Romney’s most vocal supporters. “We are here for you,” President Barack Obama said Wednesday in Brigantine, N.J., touring a ravaged shore alongside Republican Gov. That cooperative spirit extended to politicians, who at least made the appearance of putting their differences aside to deal with the destruction wrought by Sandy. ![]() TV helicopter footage showed lines for miles.Īcross the region, people stricken by the storm pulled together, providing comfort to those left homeless and offering hot showers and electrical outlets for charging cellphones to those without power. Police enforced carpooling at bridges into the city, peering through windows to make sure each car carried at least three people. I think it’s ridiculous that they’re doing this to us when we’re down, but what are you going to do? We’re desperate, and we’re helpless.” “Either they’re out of gas or the lines are ridiculous,” Katie Leggio said from her car, in line on Long Island. ![]() With the electricity out and gasoline supplies scarce, many stations across the metropolitan area closed, and the stations that were open drew long lines of cars that spilled out onto roads. A transit worker banged on a bus window and yelled at people on the bus and in line. When one bus pulled up, passengers rushed the door. In the morning, more than 1,000 people waited outside an arena in Brooklyn for buses to Manhattan. New York dipped to about 40 degrees Wednesday night.įlights took off and landed Thursday at LaGuardia Airport, the last of the three major New York-area airports to reopen since the storm. She said people were on the street buying “old, tiny little vegetables” and climbing 20 floors into apartments where they couldn’t flush the toilet and had no heat. “We had three guys sitting out in the lobby last night with candlelight, and very threatening folks were passing by in the pitch black,” she said. When the power went out Monday night in her apartment building on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, it also disabled the electric locks on the front door, she said. Rima Finzi-Strauss was taking a bus to Washington. And Mayor Michael Bloomberg said meals and bottled water will be distributed in hard-hit neighborhoods around the city. In a piece of good news for many New Yorkers, Con Edison said it is on track to restore power by Saturday in Manhattan, where a quarter-million customers were without electricity. Nearly 20,000 people remained stranded in their homes by floodwaters in Hoboken, N.J., across the river from the New York, and swaths of the New Jersey coastline lay in ruins, with countless homes, piers and boardwalks wrecked. death toll climbed to more than 80, and more than 4.6 million homes and businesses were still without power. Three days after Sandy slammed the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, New York and New Jersey struggled to get back on their feet, the U.S. It can’t get much better than this,” said Ronnie Abraham, who was waiting at Penn Station for a subway train to Harlem, a trip that takes 20 minutes underground but 2½ hours on the city’s badly overcrowded buses. But some of those who did use the subway were grateful. There was no service in downtown Manhattan and other hard-hit parts of the city, and people had to switch to buses. The trains couldn’t take some New Yorkers where they needed to go. NEW YORK - Subways started running again in much of New York City on Thursday for the first time since Superstorm Sandy, but traffic at bridges backed up for miles, long lines formed at gas stations, and tempers flared as commuters waited for buses.
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