Natural Disasters

Judge Gives Hurricane Sandy Victims in Hotel Program Time to Find Housing

Over the past month, a group of people who lost everything in Hurricane Sandy have been waging a battle with the city. They came from the most traumatized areas, and from the poorest economic backgrounds. The city had given 3,132 evacuees temporary housing in hotels in the aftermath of the storm, bu ... More >>

While City Fights Sandy Victim Class-Action Suit, Judge Extends Eviction Deadline

Six months after Hurricane Sandy swept across New York City's coastlines, most people affected by the storm have moved on from crisis mode. Power's back, insurance has (hopefully) kicked in. But there's a smaller group of people--a little less than 200 households altogether--for whom Hurricane Sandy ... More >>

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Nathaniel Rich Wrote About Hurricane Sandy Before It Hit

In 2007, the writer began work on a project about a massive hurricane hitting New York City. Five years later, just as he put the final edits on Odds Against Tomorrow--published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux earlier this month--Hurricane Sandy descended on the city. Over a recent cup of coffee in Tur ... More >>

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Mayor Bloomberg: Compete For The (Sandy Relief) Gold

Last week, we reported on the first numbers coming from City Hall on just how we're gonna spend the $1.77 billion allotted to us by Washington for initial Sandy recovery efforts. Those figures showed that the money would basically be split into three main categories: housing redevelopment ($720 mill ... More >>

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The Good Fork Will Reopen in Red Hook, Plus Free Tours of Chelsea Brewing Co.

Thursday, December 27 Beer Dinner for Holiday Hurricane Relief at Alewife: Long Island City brewery Alewife will host a holiday meal fit for a beer fanatic. For $50, try brews from Smuttynose, Lagunitas, Oskar Blues, Dogfish Head, Greenport Harbor, and Bronx Brewery, all paired with a six-course men ... More >>

Bloomberg Outlines Plans for Post-Sandy Rebuilding

In a speech this morning, Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised New York's official response to Hurricane Sandy, called for more action to control climate change, and laid out the next steps in the city's rebuilding process. "Even as our recovery operations remain our top priority, we now have enough per ... More >>

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Whole Earth Bakery Uses Crowdfunding to Stay Afloat

Peter Silvestri started Whole Earth Bakery with his mother back in 1978. Together they ran an all-vegan bakery, and served sweet and savory goods out of a storefront on Spring Street. "That was before SoHo became 'SoHo,'" said Silvestri. After Hurricane Sandy, the loss of goods combined with mounti ... More >>

NYCHA's Willingness to Meet With Frustrated Red Hook Residents Makes For Calm Protest

Red Hook public housing residents and community organizers took it pretty easy on the New York City Housing Authority during their rally outside of the agency's headquarters yesterday. For a community that went weeks without water, heat and electricity, observers might've expected the atmosphere to ... More >>

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Shelter in the Storm

Amazon Hurricane Registry Organizes About $75K In Donations -- No Thanks To Amazon

A group of do-gooders have come up with a rather ingenious way to get the victims of Hurricane Sandy the supplies they need to help rebuild their communities after last week's freakish "Frankenstorm" destroyed large sections of Long Island, Staten Island, and Queens: an Amazon wedding registry for h ... More >>

Sandy, Occupy, and the City's Failures

A Storm of Controversy

VOX Festival

Pat Robertson Still Thinks You Can Pray Away Nature -- And Other Bumblings From God's Biggest Fan

To hell with that mangy groundhog, and fuck his stupid shadow -- if we all pray hard enough, it will be spring right now!That's based on the logic of former "faith healer"/current divine weatherman Pat Robertson, who, yet again, has caused a stir with his claims that nature is somehow controlled by ... More >>

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Watch It Rain in the Subway

A flash flood watch is still in effect for New York City and surrounding areas, though the rain seems to have calmed down a bit, for the moment. But earlier today it was pretty awful, outside and apparently in the subway as well. AM New York's Tim Herrera shot this video, in which commuters actually ... More >>

Download: Forest Fire's Moody, Expansive "Future Shadows"

​New York "cosmic Americana" crew Forest Fire would rather float in space than frolic in the woods; their music is a churning, twang-gazer swirl of moody hums, guitar divebombs and black angel dub dance. They've recently teamed up with vaunted avant-indie label FatCat for their second album, t ... More >>

Rick Perry's Hip-Hop Prayer BBQ Didn't Create Jobs

Wikipedia​A lot has been made of Texas Governor Rick Perry's prayer rally, which he led this morning in Houston's Reliant Stadium. Perry, who is ramping up his campaign to be the Republican presidential candidate in 2012, insists that there were no political motivations to the gathering. Exact ... More >>

The Rapture Didn't Happen...Yet

Everyone okay?​Hey, where's Jesus at? Are the holy people going up to heaven right now, and if so, is it too late to get in on that? It's looking like...well, maybe it's too early to say, but it seems as though the world is not in fact ending right now. Maybe I'm jumping the gun and I'm about ... More >>

Liz Taylor Late to Her Own Funeral; Earthquake Kills 74 in Myanmar; 100-Year Anniversary of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

​• Elizabeth Taylor was late to her own funeral, because she asked to be. She was laid to rest in L.A.'s Forest Lawn Memorial Park yesterday in a ceremony that began 15 minutes late at her stipulation. Westboro Baptist, who'd threatened to picket, did not appear. Taylor shares a "large, mult ... More >>

Man Films His Drive Through the Tsunami [Video]

We've seen a lot of devastating tsunami videos. This one, from the Telegraph, ends well, although it's certainly harrowing: While a man drives on a coastal road, tsunami waves overtake his vehicle. He keeps filming the whole way -- without even a scream -- which is, to say the least, pretty fucking ... More >>

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Japan Fights to Avoid Nuclear Disaster; Death Toll From Tsunami Could Top 10,000

Reuters/Toru Hanai​Japan is facing what prime minister Naoto Kan called its "toughest and most difficult crisis" since World War II, as workers struggle to prevent meltdowns in two reactors at the Fukushima power plant. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said that a third reactor would possibly e ... More >>

Tornadoes Just Can't Get Enough of New York City: Watch On Till 6 P.M.

​Remember the Brooklyn/Staten Island/Queens tornado of less than two weeks ago? The one that knocked down a bunch of trees and freaked out a bunch of hipsters and led to this amazing video? Well, charge up your camera phones. There's a tornado watch currently on for the tristate area -- includ ... More >>

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Crazy Summer Weather Alert: Watch for Golf-Ball-Sized Hail

​The clouds are rolling in. We hear that there's a severe thunderstorm watch on until 8 p.m. tonight in New York and its surrounding environs. We also hear that there was "golf-ball-sized hail" sighted on the Throgs Neck today, and that someone may have seen a tornado on Long Island -- can any ... More >>

Where Cleavage Meets Geology: The Boobquake Backlash Is Proving To Be Quite a Handful

"With the power of our scandalous bodies combined, we should surely produce an earthquake," reads McCreight's Facebook invitation to the first ever "Boobquake" today. The purpose and sole activity of the day is for as many women as possible to dress immodestly in whatever way they choose, be it low ... More >>

Your Morning Links

​Wednesday is, as our mom always told us, "Hump Day," which means only two more days until the weekend ... Woot. In the meantime, here's what you should know for today: • Speaking of moms, childbirth will probably not kill you. Dealing with your child may. • Sad news in China: A 7.1 mag ... More >>

Carnegie Hall: Not the Place to Hold a Benefit in NYC

Carnegie Hall photo via wallyg's photostream​So, of the $189,793 worth of proceeds Carnegie Hall will take in if Sunday's Haiti fundraiser--featuring the world-beating pianist Lang Lang, conductor Christoph Eschenbach, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, and Wyclef Jean--sells out compl ... More >>

Black Eyed Peas

'A Night of Haitian Rara'

American Shoppers Face Dire Eggo Shortage

​As head-scratching as the idea of a processed breakfast food shortage may be, apparently Eggo is suffering its own version of a rainy growing season. According to its website, "Eggo recently experienced supply constraints caused by flood damage at our bakery in Atlanta. In addition, we've be ... More >>

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Columbia Ignores Peril

When Klaus Jacob talks, important people take action. Except the important people paying him.

New Orleans Still Struggles—In Song—With Katrina

Careful

Big Surprise: My Wife Has Lost Interest in Sex. What Do I Do?

Louisiana: Struck by Whitening

Tour De Farce: Bush Heads South

Morning Report 9/09/05
Another Bible Lesson From Bush

Sea Change

In Sri Lanka, mothers' breasts ache for phantom children. What will it take to rebuild?

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