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596 Acres Steps up Hurricane Relief Efforts

596 Acres Steps up Hurricane Relief Efforts published on

More on the ground organizations for various relief efforts.

The organization 596 Acres is posting volunteer opportunities and posting numerous times through out the day

Rockaway relief needs

https://www.facebook.com/596Acres

http://596acres.org/

Current Updates:

We need a 3-phase generator in Far Rockaway to set up a warming center.

Can we borrow yours?

Rockaway Relief Needs 7 November, 6am
Please check our up-to-date list of relief needs and places accepting materials.

Places to Bring Prepared Food & Hot Drinks (Indoors & Able to Serve in the Storm!)

International School 53, 1045 Nameoke St.

St. Mary’s, 1920 New Haven Avenue

St Gertrude’s, Beach Channel Drive & Beach 38

(no longer accepting donations due to evacuation)

Ocean Village Community Room, Beach 57th and Rockaway Beach Blvd.

?8000 Shorefront Parkway, at Beach 81st Street – food at 8 am, noon and 3PM.

Veggie Island, Beach 96th Street & Rockaway Blvd.

Places to Bring Supplies

International School 53, 1045 Nameoke St
– PRIORITY, new site. Opens at 11am.
– NEED FLASHLIGHTS & BLANKETS

Rockaway Beach Surf Club (302 Beach 87th St) – UNTIL NOON ONLY!!!

St Gertrude’s, Beach Channel Drive & Beach 38

(no longer accepting donations due to evacuation)

St. Mary’s, 1920 New Haven Avenue – 10-4pm

Veggie Island, 95-19 Rockaway Beach Blvd

Supplies to Bring
blankets
anything warm & waterproof
boots for men & women
clean undies
tools:

umbrellas
batteries
flashlights (especially LEDs!)
printed list of shelters
printed FEMA info
oil for generators
A 3-phase generator so set up a warming center in Far Rockaway
gas for generators in 1-4 gallon containers

(especially needed at St. Mary’s, 1920 New Haven Avenue)
generators
goggles
masks (N95 Particulate Filtering Faceplate Respirator is best for this cleanup and is affordable)
crow bars
wrecking bars
hygiene:

diapers
sanitary napkins
laundry detergent
toilet paper
spray bleach
big sponges
clorox wipes
deodorant
paper towels
toothbrushes & paste
food:

juice
baby milk
baby bottles
Ensure
Canned food & non-perishables
—–

If you can get to Rockaway, there is a kitchen that needs your help cooking at 121 Beach 92 this morning. They are preparing food and delivering it to folks who are home-bound. Contact RockawayRescueAlliance@gmail.com to plug in.

 

Airbnb.com Partners with NYC

Airbnb.com Partners with NYC published on

From the clever use of resources department: Way to go Airbnb!

It’s time to help each other.

See how it works here:

(https://www.airbnb.com/sandy)

Thousands of people are still stranded by Hurricane Sandy. Airbnb has partnered with the City of New York to connect those in need with people who are able to provide free housing.
Airbnb lets people rent out extra space effortlessly. It’s free to sign up and with a built in community, your listing will be seen by a worldwide audience.

 

Rockaway Emergency Plan Now has Volunteer Sign Up

Rockaway Emergency Plan Now has Volunteer Sign Up published on

In an effort to remain organized and coordinated in Rockaway – Sign up for help and to volunteer.

Rockaway Emergency Plan
Excellent news. We are now taking help requests and volunteer information via online registration forms. If you already emailed us for help or about volunteers, please go to the website and fill out the form. It will really help us out.

Of course, we will continue accepting walk-up volunteers and taking on-the-spot help requests at our table on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

If you NEED HELP, fill out our online form here (please include the times when you will be home):
http://action.rockawayhelp.com/page/s/need-help

If you want to VOLUNTEER, fill out our online form here:
http://action.rockawayhelp.com/page/s/volunteer-to-help-rockaways

Gowanus Housing Needs Our Help Today!

Gowanus Housing Needs Our Help Today! published on 1 Comment on Gowanus Housing Needs Our Help Today!

regarding relief efforts at Gowanus Houses, please call 347-806-6435. Contributions can be delivered to

Gowanus Community Center, 420 Baltic Street in Brooklyn and will be accepted until 6 p.m.

::: GOWANUS HOUSES SUPPORT – WED. 11/7 :::
Today, we’re expecting heavy rains and high winds. The NYC alerts we’ve received tell us to stay home or to find a nearest shelter.

The families in the Gowanus Houses buildings, especially seniors, the ill and the homebound that are STILL WITHOUT POWER, HEAT AND HOT WATER have no choice but to stay home. These are the people who rely on relief efforts to get food, water, blankets.

Since the City of New York is doing virtually NOTHING to help Gowanus residents, the family of donors, volunteers, community organizations and faith based organizations have become their life line.

Yesterday, we struggled greatly to provide relief to Gowanus residents who are angry, hurt and frustrated that they are not getting the support or communications needed by city, state and federal agencies about further disaster assistance.

On day five, we can not stay in our warm homes, with access to refrigerated food and the ability to come and go as we please…or as we need.

On day five, we will practice self-determination and community-building. We will practice movement building.

Our goals:
1. Get families enough food, water and other supplies to last three days
2. Make sure that sick residents have enough medication and see medical personnel by the end of the day
3. Get residents connected to the appropriate agencies that can provide further disaster relief.

:::VOLUNTEER:::
We need about 20 volunteers for door-knocking, distribute food and complete food/water/supply deliveries to our families as well as make assessments of the medical needs of elders, sick and home-bound residents.

Volunteers are being asked to meet at the center (see address below) at 12 p.m. If you are interested in serving as an outreach coordinator and if you can help bring in donations and package bags of food for families, please come at 11 a.m.

Outreach and distribution will go on until 6 p.m., weather permitting.

We also need help in the evening, when we tend to have less volunteers, to deliver hot food to home-bound residents between 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. We would need 10 volunteers to get this done. If you can do evening hours, please check this page or FUREE’s web page for an update.

:::DONATE:::
We need food! We need supplies! We need your help!

Please donate as much as you can; no donation is ever too small! Please give only what is on the list so we don’t have an excess of food and supplies that we can’t move:

– Baby food (vegetarian, with meat/chicken, fruit, cereal stages 1, 2, 3)
– Water
– Evaporated, powdered and regular milk (1/2 gal. or smaller)
– Soy milk
– Pediasure
– Ensure
– Glucerna
– Ready made formula (with iron, regular/soy/sensitive)
– Canned goods (beans, vegetables, tomato sauce, soups, tuna fish, sardines, vienna sausages)
– Protein/granola/cereal/fruit bars
– Apple Sauce
– Diapers (newborn, sizes 1, 4 and 6)
– Toddler training pants (sizes 4+)
– Flashlights
– Batteries (especially C and D)
– Candles/Flashlights
– Peanut butter
– Sliced bread
– Fruit (apples, oranges, bananas, etc)
– Disposable hand warmers
– Gloves
– Socks
– Dry Ice (we have none and already, some residents’ insulin have gone bad.)

Goods can be delivered between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. to the address listed below.

Please DO NOT BRING clothing and blankets.

We also need cash contributions so we can purchase what is needed and to support this relief work at Gowanus Houses.
To donate online, visit http://furee.org/donate or make checks payable to FUREE. Indicate if you are donating for relief efforts or to support FUREE’s overall work in the memo/notes sections.

::: CONNECT RESIDENTS TO SERVICES :::
Our friends from South Brooklyn Legal Services will be on site and visiting residents to apply for FEMA assistance and other assistance.

We will also have medical personnel from the NYU Medical Center to check in on the sick and homebound and to make sure that residents have their needed medication.

Volunteers are needed to alert residents of these FREE services and to help pick up prescriptions from local pharmacies to deliver to residents.

LOCATION:
Gowanus Community Center, 420 Baltic Street in Brooklyn

To sign up, please send e-mail to valery[at]furee[dot]org or lucas[at]furee.org

Again, thank you all for support!

NY Cares Coordinated Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts

NY Cares Coordinated Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts published on

NY Cares, as ever, is mobilizing volunteers and efforts for specific clean up, collections and all matter of needs in Staten Island and other areas affected by the storm.

Sign up for a list of Sandy related relief projects http://newyorkcares.org/

Hurricane Sandy response projects are being posted on a rolling basis. They have been filling up quickly so please bookmark the Hurricane-related search results page, and check back often. Need help signing up to volunteer, click here.

Likewise they have just started their annual Coat Drive

The New York Cares Coat Drive is getting started:

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, New Yorkers are in need of warm coats more than ever this winter. To meet demand we need to collect 200,000 coats, but, due to the urgency created by Hurricane Sandy, we desperately need 50,000 coats this week! There are collection sites all over the city and they will be open from November 6 through December 31. Please donate soon.

Click here for info on the New York Cares Coat Drive.

 

 

New York Cares was founded by a group of friends who wanted to take action against serious social issues that faced our city in the late 1980s. Finding few options to help, they created their own organization to address the problems from the ground up.

New York Cares is now the city’s largest volunteer organization, running volunteer programs for 1,300 nonprofits, city agencies, and public schools. Today’s volunteers share our founders’ vision that we all have a role to play in making our city a better place.

DRG

Urgent Supplies Needed @ Jacobi Church Main Food Hub

Urgent Supplies Needed @ Jacobi Church Main Food Hub published on

The operation by Occupy Sandy Relief has been so darn organized and amazing, words to do not suffice. Please check out the site for all volunteer training, needs, meeting point details.
They need more food and clean up supplies!!

http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/

URGENT SUPPLIES NEEDED

– JACOBI (5406 4th Ave) AND 520 CLINTON ARE OUT OF FOOD
please bring Meat/Chicken/Ground Beef, Vegetables Non-Perishables (Canned goods, soups, vegetables) Dry goods and ready to eat food (Cereal, power bars, granola, crackers, etc)(Update 11/06 1:30PM)
– box cutters / face masks rated at least N95 / work gloves / adult diapers / and the us- flashlights, batteries, blankets, etc. Lots of places seem to be taking canned food. (Updated 11-06)
Blankets Candles Flashlights Lights Water Food Batteries Diapers and Wipes Gloves and Masks Rubber boots Shovels Cleaning supplies and bleach Trash bags Serving dishes and utensils Anything that produces heat Winter wear (jackets, hats, gloves, warm stuff)
(WE NO LONGER NEED ANY GENERAL CLOTHING SUPPLIES)

 

* Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew and St. Jacobi Church are our primary training and distribution centers. It is important that new volunteers come to one of these two locations first if at all possible. Of course, if you can’t make it to one of these but can make it to one of the other locations you should go there, but please make every effort to come to one of the main distributions centers first.
IMPORTANT INFO FOR VOLUNTEERS
Click here for the latest volunteer information.
SAFETY INFO:
– Please do not enter a building unless it has been assessed and determined structurally sound.
– Please go to a volunteer intake center at Jacobi church or 520 Clinton before heading out to the field
– NOTHING SHOULD LEAVE BROOKLYN FOR THE ROCKAWAYS AFTER 4 PM

We will be transporting volunteers and supplies from St Jacobi Church in Sunset Park to impacted areas throughout the day. We prefer that new volunteers come to Sunset Park if possible so that we can route you to the locations with the greatest need, rather than going directly to one of the volunteer sites.

To catch a ride to Sunset Park, vehicles will be leaving from the following Brooklyn locations at 10am and 1pm. Please arrive a little before the hour as cars will be leaving on time!

Willimsburg: 306 Leonard at Metropolitan – (please wait outside)
East Williamsburg: 342 Maujer st

Transportation update
Use the MTA to get to Jacobi or 520 Clinton. Please visit www.mta.info or www.hopstop.com for directions.
Staten Island Ferry will be running starting at Noon 11/2
NY water taxi providing free rides from ikea to lower manhattan

Disaster Assistance Centers Opening Up in NY

Disaster Assistance Centers Opening Up in NY published on

For centralized help folks are encouraged to get to a center as soon as they can.  Sites will be added in the coming days.

The Mayor’s Office and Human Resources Administration (HRA) have set up full-service sites with information about applying for emergency social and economic assistance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is available to help homeowners apply for loans. Additional sites will be added as information becomes available. If you have problems accessing this list, please call 311.

DASC: http://www.nyc.gov/html/misc/html/2012/dasc.html

Brooklyn

MCU Park parking lot at 1904 Surf Avenue in Coney Island

Bronx

Edgewater Firehouse Parking Lot, 1 Adee Place between 9th Avenue and Edge Street

Queens

Fort Tilden Park at Beach Channel Boulevard – Western-most Parking Lot

Walbaums Parking Lot, 112-15 Beach Channel Drive between Beach 112th/Beach 113th

Staten Island

Mount Loretto at 6581 Hylan Blvd. at Sharrotts Road

Miller Field at 600 New Dorp. Lane at Weed Avenue

 

Deb

Homeless for Thanksgiving?

Homeless for Thanksgiving? published on

Election Day is here and that means Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Sandy left a trail of destruction behind her but you know what? If you’re here reading this, that means you have a lot to be thankful for this year.

Liberty View Farm has started a Facebook page called Thanksgiving in the Hudson Valley. They will be hosting Sandy victims at their farm and are inviting other Upstate folks to join them in offering up their own hospitality.

If you’ve been left homeless or even just powerless, take them up on their offer! Sounds like a great refuge. If you have a second home that’s not in use at this time, please consider hosting a family.

Occupy Sandy and Recovers Follow these Folks!

Occupy Sandy and Recovers Follow these Folks! published on 1 Comment on Occupy Sandy and Recovers Follow these Folks!

With all the volunteer/donation posts on Facebook and the wonderful chain of emails being sent about, the responses by us regular folk has been absolutely incredible and stunning.

The Occupy Wall Street community, along with the genius Recovers.org portal have set up a system for immediate assistance that is making it’s way to so many.

Stay aware of all their efforts via newsletter, tweets, Facebook.

Occupy Sandy Relief 

Occupy Sandy is a coordinated relief effort to help distribute resources & volunteers to help neighborhoods and people affected by Hurricane Sandy. We are a coalition of people & organizations who are dedicated to implementing aid and establishing hubs for neighborhood resource distribution. Members of this coalition are from Occupy Wall Street, 350.org, recovers.org and interoccupy.net.

To get regular updates by text message please text @occupysandy to 23559  Contact us at OccupySandy@interoccupy.net.

Occupy Wedding Register:

Genius, for NJ Hurricane Sandy victims, items you can purchase that will go directly to those in need.

RedHook Recovers

Recovery organizing efforts in Red Hook, Brooklyn.  Offer and request information and assistance.

Astoria Recovers

Staten Island

The Lower East Side

Recovers.org

Community software that efficiently organizes volunteers, donations and information.

Updated: Volunteer: Relief Efforts Follow these Folks

Updated: Volunteer: Relief Efforts Follow these Folks published on

So many different ways, needs and skills can  help.

These are sites to follow for up to the minute localized coordination:

Red Hook Initiatives

http://rhicenter.org/tag/hurricane-relief/
The Red Hook Initiative is currently acting as the center for hurricane recovery efforts in Red Hook, Brooklyn. They are providing meals and supplies to those affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Occupy Sandy New Jersey

http://interoccupy.net/occupysandynj/

Leading the efforts in almost all effected areas, stay up to date with them

InterOccupy.net  Newswire

http://interoccupy.net/newswire/

Clean Up Sheepshead Bay has posted several volunteer opportunities in the South Brooklyn neighborhood, including clean-up efforts on Saturday and initiatives to distribute food to those in need in the community.

New York Tech Meetup is asking people with techie skills to register on their website for volunteering opportunities to help small businesses and other folks to get their websites and the like back up, post-Sandy. They’ve also listed coworking spaces where volunteers can meet to plan projects.

The Bronx River Alliance needs volunteers on November 10 to replant trees in the borough. Here’s the info from their website: “Join us on November 10 as we plant 500 trees and shrubs along the river’s banks in Shoelace Park, in an effort to replace the many damaged trees in this catastrophic storm. Contact Joseph Sanchez at joseph.sanchez@parks.nyc.gov or 718-430-4636.”

 

More Places to Donate Dough

More Places to Donate Dough published on

These folks are in need of help, if you can donate, they need your help.

Occupy Sandy Wedding Registry!

Your donations make a difference! Purchasing items below will help NJ residents seeking shelter, food, warmth, and human kindness in Sandy’s aftermath.

Bailey-Holt House (this center, which provides afforable housing for those living with HIV/AIDS, was flooded during the storm)

Coney Island USA needs help cleaning up its flooded headquarters; if you’re experienced with flood clean-up, they need assistance, but you can also donate cash.

City Harvest is coordinating food delivery services to hard-hit areas in Staten Island and Coney Island, as well as providing food to shelters. You can contact them about volunteering, or simply donate to their Sandy relief fund.

New York Cares (text iCARE to 85944 to donate $10 from your mobile device)

The Bowery Mission (text BOWERY to 20222 to make a donation from your mobile device)

Masbia (the organization is preparing meals for evacuees at the Park Slope Armory, and needs donations to continue its efforts)
Community Food Bank of New Jersey

Rockaway Post Hurricane Communication Hub

Rockaway Post Hurricane Communication Hub published on

The Rockaway Emergency Plan community Facebook page  seems to be the main hub for communication among ROCKAWAY residents and folks looking to help.  “A place on Facebook to find and share information after Hurricane Sandy devastated Rockaway.”

Check this page “like” it, as they are updating almost hourly with timely important information on: School relocation, Fema procedures, directing volunteers to particular locations.

Visit them at Facebook.com/Rockaway-Emergency-Plan

School Relocation Information

School Relocation Information published on

It’s going to be a rough road for many kids, but the New York City Department of Education just posted the list of school relocations for those in the majorly hard hit areas.

From schools.nyc.gov

Schools to be relocated

While the vast majority of students across the city will report to their home schools on Monday morning, November 5, there will be schools that will be relocated temporarily in other buildings because of significant damage to their home building.

This is a list of schools (as of 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 3) that have experienced severe damage and cannot open for school on Monday.  The list shows each impacted school with a temporary location, where the school will hold classes until its original building can be repaired. (list in pdf format)

In some instances impacted schools are being sited across several schools, i.e., Kindergarten through grade 2 at one receiving school, grades 3-5 at another.

Students in these schools will not attend class on Monday, November 5 or Tuesday, November 6 (Election Day), but will attend class at their new temporary location on Wednesday, November 7.

We are working with our busing companies to provide transportation for eligible students. We will provide updates early in the week.

Teachers will report on Monday and Tuesday to integrate into their new temporary location and prepare for students to come back to school on Wednesday.

Staff should report to their new temporary location on Monday, November 5, at their regular start time.

Schools without power

This is a list of schools that as of 5:00 p.m. on Friday, November 2, did not have power restored. (list in pdf format

This list will be updated Sunday afternoon.

We hope that as power is restored throughout the city, that these schools will also regain power.

This list excludes schools that are relocating due to severe damage.

Schools serving as shelter sites

This is a list of schools that will continue to host a shelter site on Monday, November 5. (list in pdf format)

Students in these schools will not attend class on Monday, November 5 or Tuesday, November 6 (Election Day), but will return to school on Wednesday, November 7.

Staff should report to school on Monday, November 5, at their regular start time.

Local Organizations Accepting Monetary Donations

Local Organizations Accepting Monetary Donations published on

Of course there is the Red Cross and the other larger organizations we all know about. If you are looking for a group that is already working day and night right in their community to help their community: clean up, receive food, provisions and address the evolving needs, since Hurricane Sandy hit – please consider donating to Red Hook Initiatives.   Your dollars will be put to good use! ( We will add to the list, recommendations welcome).

http://www.rhicenter.org/donate.html

 HURRICANE RECOVERY:
Red Hook Initiatives
As many of you know, Red Hook, Brooklyn is one of New York’s communities most devastated by Hurricane Sandy. In response to its impacts, The Red Hook Initiative immediately diverted its efforts to serve as a de facto center for local relief and support efforts – especially for the 5,000 public housing residents without power or heat but also for local residents and small businesses whose homes and livelihoods have been destroyed by this storm – so many of whom have supported our efforts in the past.
We are currently providing emergency supplies, serving hot meals, providing access to power and communications, helping to provide information and access to necessary services, and coordinating community volunteer efforts. The situation is very much in flux and we expect to adjust our role to respond to evolving needs; meanwhile, all donations received at this time will go to support these and similar efforts. Thank you for your support – we will keep you updated on the progress.
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On Monday night, October 29th, Hurricane Sandy came roaring through the Lower East Side / East Village in Manhattan.
Avenue C turned into a river, pushing cars around, flooding basement and ground floor apartments. Bars, restaurants and small ‘Mom and Pop’ shops lost their entire inventory and much of their equipment. On Avenue D, many families living in NYC Housing Authority high-rise buildings were forced to relocate, doubling and tripling up with relatives and friends in other boroughs. Those who could not evacuate – the elderly and infirm – were trapped in homes with no power or water for four days.
All of the families of Lower Eastside Girls Club members have been impacted by this disaster. Without electricity for four days,
everything in their refrigerators has spoiled and needs to be replaced. Those living on lower floors also need to replace flood soaked furniture and clothing.
But perhaps the greatest loss, the unseen loss, has been in wages. The parents of our girls are day workers, nurses aides, deli countermen, and retail clerks. With no subways to get to work this week, they are facing diminished paychecks. It is these  ‘little things’ that can really set a family back: needing to restock the fridge, not being able to pay the cell phone bill, or buy your child those new winter boots (they grow so fast).
 HOW YOU CAN HELP
  • CASH
Please help the Lower Eastside Girls Club assist our families weather this storm with a gift of cash. Whatever you can donate will be given directly to Girls Club families in the form of mini “get back on your feet and fill the fridge” grants.
An anonymous donor has generously offered to match any contribution dollar for dollar up to $5000, so your $1 = $2! Our goal is to raise (and re-grant) $10,000 in the coming week!
  • FOOD  Non-perishable food donations are also needed and being accepted at 2 locations through Wednesday.
+ Make donations directly at the Girls Club on Saturday November 3, Monday November 5 – Wednesday November 7 between 11am – 6pm
56 East 1st Street
+ Parlor Showroom is hosting a food drive to support the Girls Club on Wednesday, November 7 and Thursday, November 8
7 Mercer Street (at Howard), 2nd floor in Soho
 Please stay tuned for updates. Thank you for your support!
 -The Lower Eastside Girls Club

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