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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.

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

Weekend Sandy Volunteer Opportunities

Weekend Sandy Volunteer Opportunities published on

My friend Deb will be helping compile lists of Sandy relief efforts on this blog in the upcoming days and weeks.

 

For now, here’s a quick cut -n- paste from Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

Brooklyn

Friday, November 2, 12pm-4pm:

    Help us go door to door and distribute information to small business owners about filing for federal disaster aid in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Space is limited, please RSVP to

esharp@pubadvocate.nyc.gov

  • Friday, November 2, 12 pm-4 pm: Help us go door to door to distribute information to homeowners about filing for federal disaster aid in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. Space is limited, please RSVP to esharp@pubadvocate.nyc.gov

Queens

  • Friday, November 2 through Sunday, November 4, 10am-8pm: Drop off canned foods, clothes, and cleanup supplies at 8000 Cooper Avenue (the former Borders Bookstore site). For questions about the donation drive, please call Council Member Elizabeth Crowley’s office at 718-366-3900.
  • Friday, November 2 through Sunday, November 4, 10am-8pm: Drop off canned foods, and men’s, women’s and children’s coats, and blankets at 83-91 Woodhaven Boulevard, Woodhaven, NY 11421. For questions about the donation drive, please call Assemblyman Mike Miller’s office at 718-805-0950.
  • Friday, November 2 through Saturday, November 3, 10am-1pm: Click here to volunteer in Brookville Park or Baisley Pond Park with clean-up efforts.
  • Friday, November 2, 12pm-4pm: Help us go door to door and distribute information to small business owners about filing for federal disaster aid in Jamaica, Queens. Meet at the office of Councilman Ruben Wills,95-26 Sutphin Boulevard in Jamaica. Space is limited, please RSVP to wgardiner@pubadvocate.nyc.gov

Manhattan

  • Friday, November 2 through Sunday, November 4, 10am-1pm: Click here to sign up to volunteer with clean-up efforts in Happy Warrior Playground, Annunciation Park, Carl Schurz Park, Anne Loftus Playground (at Fort Tryon Park), Randall’s Island (Friday and Saturday only) or Hudson River Park (Friday only).
  • Friday, November 2, shifts starting at 10am, 12pm and 2pm: Operation Water Bottle, initiated by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, is helping deliver water to Chinatown using Dance New Amsterdam (280 Broadway, entrance at 53 Chambers Street as a staging area to fill up empty water bottles. While the Department of Environmental Protection has opened the fire hydrants for water use there are many who don’t have access to refillable bottles or don’t have easy access to the hydrants. De Blasio’s team has thousands of empty water bottles they are filling up at DNA and delivering to residents. Space is limited, please RSVP to jmerritt@pubadvocate.nyc.gov

Bronx

  • Friday, November 2, 9 am-3 pm: New York Blood Center Emergency Blood Drive at the Bronx County Building, 851 Grand Concourse-Veterans Memorial Hall, 1st Floor Rotunda
  • Friday, November 2 – Sunday, November 4, 10 am-1 pm: Click here to volunteer with clean-up efforts in Van Cortlandt Park or Orchard Beach.

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