Notify NYC Alert: Due to a crane collapse at 157 West 57th Street in Manhattan, all occupants of buildings on West 57th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues must immediately move to the lower floors of your building and make contact with your building safety representative. Citizens are advised to avoid this area. Follow instructions of emergency personnel.
Photo via @FDNY on Twitter.
Don’t panic!
How to survive a hurricane: pumpkin brown butter pretzels. (at The Petworth palace )
Just in case people forget, there are Amazing soldiers standing at the Tomb through this craziness. This a picture from this morning.
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The Subway Looks Kind of Creepy When Its Empty
It’s a rare sight to behold in the city of 24-hour everything.
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Mayor Bloomberg will update New Yorkers on Hurricane Sandy at 11:30 a.m. today. Watch the briefing live at NYC.gov.
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Giants win the World Series
AP: The San Francisco Giants have won their second World Series title in three years after sweeping the Detroit Tigers.
Photo: The Giants’ Buster Posey hits a two-run home run in the sixth inning against the Tigers on Sunday night in Detroit. (Leon Halip / Getty Images)
i created a hurricane playlist and put the songs in order so that their titles narrate exactly what happens
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Pretty calm here in NYC before the Storm
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Status check: Wondering what’s going on on public transit near you? DataNews & Transportation Nation’s new Transit Tracker automatically checks and reports.
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And just in case you’ve managed to miss them, here are all of our free, embeddable Hurricane Sandy resources. Embed. Share. Be informed.Sandy Tracker | Transit Tracker | NYC Evacuation Zones | Storm Surge Zones In NY/NJ
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In addition, here is the expected day by day breakdown of “Frankenstorm” (that’s what some ppl are calling it, I like it so let’s roll with it)
Sunday afternoon: Bands of showers develop, with wind gusts increasing to 45 mph.
Sunday evening: Rains grow heavier, especially south of the city. The winds become quite gusty, up to 50 mph. Expect coastal flooding at high tide.
Monday morning: Heavy rain, winds gusting up to 60 mph. Severe coastal flooding at high tide.
Monday afternoon - evening: Wind gusts of 60 to 80 mph, with major to extreme coastal flooding at high tide. Widespread power outages are expected.
Tuesday morning: Heavy rain and strong wind. Damage still possible during this phase of the storm.
Tuesday evening: Conditions gradually better but still rainy and breezy.
The biggest concern for New Yorkers will be power outages and inland flooding from storm surge. So stay safe everyone and God Bless you all.
New York mass transit to shut down in preparation for Sandy
NBC New York: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced that subways, buses and commuter rails will begin shutting down at 7 p.m. Sunday. Bridges and tunnels will close on a “case by case basis.”
The announcement comes as Hurricane Sandy roars towards the Northeast US; it is expected to make landfall early Tuesday near the southern New Jersey coast.
Photo: Commuters exit the Canal St. A, C and E subway station which was boarded up with plywood to help prevent flooding on Oct. 27 in New York City. (Mary Altaffer / AP)
