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.
The National Guard and Operation Blessing handing out food on the Lower East Side.
Outside Hamilton Fish Park.
Meals Ready to Eat and bottled water given out by the National Guard.
What is inside an MRE?
At Our Lady of Sorrows Church.
I saw this truck having a hard time making the turn onto Stanton Street early Friday morning.
The food given away by Operation Blessing.
A generator was set up to charge cell phone batteries.
Halloween ghost. I took my camera and tripod out once again on Halloween night. I was hoping to find some people out partying in costumes. I thought I could get cool portraits, if I could get them to stay still for a time exposure. I saw maybe three people in costume during the entire walk through the East Village. And for most of that time the streets were eerily empty. I didn’t feel threatened, but I was a bit spooked.
Halloween moon on Houston Street. The moon provided some lighting but most of the highlights came from car headlights. I was doing exposures ranging from 1 to 10 seconds. The tripod I took was lightweight, which was the only feasible choice for trekking around in the dark. It was fine for the most part but any minor jarring would ruing the crispness of the image.
Bowery, Houston graffiti mural.
The Con Ed building was lit up by a giant generator parked on 14th Street.
Food and light for Astor Place.
Astor Place.
NYU all lit up.
Cop-lit cobblestones.
Broadway eats.
Sixth Avenue and the Jefferson Market Library.
You can tell how high the water must have been in order to float this wood on top of the fence.
Water in this area topped the height of the cars. These cars floated into each other.
Con Edison on 14th Street at the East River.
Wednesday on the Williamsburg Bridge crossing the East River from Manhattan. MTA busses were free but there was no service across the bridge on Wednesday. I was an electron refugee to my pal Chris’s apartment in Queens, charging up my cell phone and camera batteries. He graciously fed me cheese and chips, a stale cannoli and a Halloween cupcake decorated with a rubber spider left over from a party he did magic at. I ended up walking back from his place as the buses were so crowded. On the way I visited about 8 different grocery and convenience stores before I could find organic soy milk.
I took my camera and lightweight tripod out into the blacked out East Village last Tuesday night. Exposures varied between 1 and 10 seconds. The sky was cloudy but it was illuminated by the full moon. I also waited for car lights to provide fill. As opposed to the 2003 blackout, the streets were mostly deserted of people. I felt fairly safe, but the street party that happened in this neighborhood in 2003 was not apparent to me.
Uptown still had power, but only the tallest buildings are visible from street level East Village.
Crossing the Avenues as a pedestrian was a challenge with the stop lights out.
This bar on St. Mark’s Place was open by candlelight.
On Avenue A across from Tompkins Square Park. Food trucks were islands of illumination and hot food.
Downtown Manhattan Tuesday, the morning after Sandy hit the coast.
120 Wall Street. Looks like they should have spent a dollar or two more on tape for the windows.
New York Stock Exchange
The leaves were thick on the stairs.
The most damage I saw to trees from Sandy was in the East River Park. A pin oak, maybe this squirrel’s home, damaged by Sandy.
This playground flooded during Irene as well.
I thought it was unusual that this Linden tree’s trunk snapped instead of the dislodging the roots.
These trees snapped a lamp-post.
You can see that the water topped these benches.
Remnants of bee hives, that I think were housed at the Ecology Center, were scattered all along the path.
