Hurricane Sandy has mostly passed through New York City and luckily Harlem was one of the neighborhoods least affected by it all. Besides the inconvenience of the subways being shut down, not too much else happened except for howling winds and some heavy rain. Friends in Chelsea, Chinatown, Brooklyn, and Murray Hill have all reported power outages all night and many outer parts of the city have been flooded. The above map show the evacuation zones in red and most of those areas saw water levels rise at record levels. Avenue C in the East Village had cars submerged in water and Battery Park faced the same fate since it was mainly built on landfill. The worst appears to be over and now the city has to face some major cleanup, access the damage done and wait for things to get back in order. Click on image to enlarge
We were lucky! However, just saw on channel 4 news: cars were submerged in Harlem too--around 148 and Adam Clayton Powell. Also window of the TD Bank on 125 and FDB blown in/shattered.
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ReplyDeleteSaw NY1 video of flooded subway at Lenox and 148th St
ReplyDeleteSaw many cars crushed under trees. My neighbors car was destroyed. The Harlem River surged over onto the Harlem River Drive, cars in Esplanade Gardens Parking lot were submerged from the water of the Harlem River. I saw this covered on the news because these incidents was sent in via photo's from residents of Harlem. So Harlem was not spared the raft of Sandy!
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