Nov
02
2012
The Lower East Side of Manhattan After Sandy
I just got back from the Lower East Side of Manhattan & this is how people are getting water. Every other fire hydrant is open enough for a slow trickle to come from it. I thought it perhaps just one lone man with his many containers filling them up one by one but as I stood there people kept emerging from their apts carrying buckets, jars & containers of all shapes & sizes to fill & then make their way back up to their apartments still without heat, water or electricity … It’s become ‘routine’ down there that this is their water supply … This is NYC
This is how it is at night on the LES – only the light of the random car, cab or NYPD vehicle lights up your walk. Many carry flashlights now. No traffic lights, no street lights, no building lights – complete & utter darkness – as if no one ever lived there. It’s basically a ghost town…
As I walked down 2nd Avenue I rather felt like one must feel when in Holland by the number of bicycles flying down the street. Literally in 15 minutes of walking over 100 bikes must have passed me – it is truly quite a sight, they just keep coming & believe me you better not be in their way
More images of dark/vacant/ghost town of a LES & people waiting for hours to be picked up to get out of there to gather food, water & supplies…
Thanks for posting and explaining. I hope the rest of the country helps these folks out a bit. I know the west coast has their issues with fires and all but would it not be nice for one coast to help the other when they have issues as when one has them the other does not, thus it would be helpful to both and not hard for them to do. Now to cover the center of the country, north helps south and vice versa?