The Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, 520 Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn. Call the church number (718) 638-0686 to offer your help, if you can. View this earlier post for more information.
The pews are filled with emergency supplies to be sorted and shipped where they are needed around the city. On Sunday room is made for those attending services at this the largest Episcopal church in Brooklyn.
Receiving supplies donated to Occupy Sandy via Occupy’s hack of Amazon’s wedding registry into a way for people to donate needed items for disaster relief.
Getting the supplies inside bucket brigade style.
Map on the wall of the Communication Center.
Communications Center
My friend Chris coordinating the delivery of hot food produced by this church’s kitchen and others.
Preparing food. I helped make sandwiches this morning with this crew.
Prepped food for the hot meals.
Outside the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew in Brooklyn which is acting as the “holy warehouse” for Occupy Sandy’s relief effort. According to Rector Michael Sniffen they are producing 5000 hot meals a day in the church kitchen for delivery to the Rockaways, Staten Island and Coney Island. You can contribute goods through Amazon’s Occupy Sandy gift registry. It is delivered directly to the church for distribution. Time’s Up the bike activists deliver aid via bikes to emphasize the relationship of fossil fuels to climate change, but also bikes can maneuver into spaces still not reachable by cars in the Rockaways.
A generator bike for charging cell phones.
I arrived too early to the scene for the hipster bike modders, that probably arrived fashionably later.
But the Puerto Rico Schwinn Club dominated Havermeyer and Grand with their chomed, beautifully restored and modded bikes, and gave me plenty to shoot.
Imagine yourself behind the wheel.
Definitely the slickest shave-ice cart I’ve ever seen.
Times-up was there doing bike repairs, but not much other than vending was happening when I arrived. These hand-painted helmets are lovely, and reasonably priced. bellehelmets.com
A group show celebrating the artwork of artist Royce Bannon, Abe lincoln Jr., infinity, Chris RWK, Moody, Nose Go, Matt Siren, Sno Monster, Keely, Darkclouds, and Celso
The show will run from Febraury 26th-March 26th. The opening reception is Feb 26th at 6pm.