In
Blacked Out
Lower
Manhattan,
Water from
Hydrants and
Pizza in Dark
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
LOWER
MANHATTAN,
October 31 --
Almost two
days after
Hurricane
Sandy hit
New York City,
on Wednesday
evening the
lower part of
Manhattan
remained
without
electricity.
Some residents
headed north
with
rolling
suitcases;
others stayed
inside high
rise
apartments,
many
with no
running water.
Con
Edison is
pathetic, a
Chinatown
resident told
Inner City
Press.
Further north
on 20th Street
and Second
Avenue a
school
playground
was full of
Con Edison
utility
trucks. It was
unclear when
the lights
would come on.
The
busses were
free but
crowded and
infrequent.
Most stores
and
restaurants
were closed,
but some
soldiered on
by candle
light, or
sold their
wares -- cash
only --
directly into
the street.
A sample
survivor was
Mike's Pizza
on 24th Street
and Second
Avenue,
selling
plain and
vegetable
slices for
$2.50 in the
half light.
Up
at the United
Nations, where
Inner City
Press covered
the "historic"
3 pm Security
Council
meeting
inside
Conference
Room 4 in the
Temporary
North Lawn
Building,
there was
confusion how
Thursday's
General
Assembly
meetings would
be staffed.
Indian
Permanent
Representative
Hardeep Singh
Puri told
Inner City
Press
that the
meetings
preparing for
November when
he is Security
Council
President will
be held in the
Indian Mission
ot the UN on
43rd
Street, and
not in the
Security
Council's
water damaged
suite of
rooms.
The
second floor
General
Assembly, by
contrast, was
said ready for
use on
Thursday.
We'll see.
Watch this
site.
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