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| DATE | 2010-12-28 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Mayor Turns a blind Eye to Brooklyn
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On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:41:18AM -0500, phantom21-at-mindspring.com wrote:
> I've always thought Staten Island should secede from NYC/NS and become a part of NJ.
>
> Then, NYC and Long Island secede from NYS and become a state unto itself.
>
Brooklyn, Queens, and Nausua should be one city. If not Brooklyn
definitely needs to succeed from the city by itself. Its time Brooklyn
had a government that responds to its own needs.
Ruben
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Michael L Richardson
> >Sent: Dec 28, 2010 10:02 AM
> >To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
> >Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Mayor Turns a blind Eye to Brooklyn
> >
> >Can Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island succeed from New York City, and
> >New York State?
> >
> >On 12/28/2010 9:42 AM, phantom21-at-mindspring.com wrote:
> >> The blind eye wasn't just for Brooklyn. Most streets here in Queens (at least here in Ridgewood) haven't seen one touch of a plow, and there are drifts 3 feet high.
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >>
> >>> From: Ruben Safir
> >>> Sent: Dec 28, 2010 2:12 AM
> >>> To: hangout-at-nylxs.com
> >>> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Mayor Turns a blind Eye to Brooklyn
> >>>
> >>> ~
> >>> Snow job! Brooklyn pols blast lackluster storm response
> >>> Brooklyn pols blast city for lackluster storm response
> >>>
> >>> By Gary Buiso
> >>> Monday, December 27, 2010 11:09 PM EST
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> >>>
> >>> Brooklyn received a one-two punch on Monday ??? first when Mother
> >>> Nature pummeled us with the sixth-largest snowstorm ever, then when City
> >>> Hall didn???t do enough to clear the streets of the most-important
> >>> borough.
> >>>
> >>> The blizzard that dumped two feet of snow ended in the wee hours on
> >>> Monday, but hundreds of streets throughout Brooklyn remained untouched
> >>> by city plows all day, stranding and endangering residents, and
> >>> infuriating critics.
> >>>
> >>> And elevated subway tracks ??? common in Brooklyn, though virtually
> >>> unheard of in Manhattan ??? were rendered impassable all day long
> >>> (though limited service on the F line was restored by 10:30 pm and was
> >>> expected to be available for Tuesday???s rush hour).
> >>>
> >>> ???This isn???t the worst storm we???ve ever had, but it seems to
> >>> be the worst response to any major storm in recent memory,??? said
> >>> Councilman Steve Levin (D???Williamsburg).
> >>>
> >>> Indeed, much of Brooklyn remained inaccessible by public or private
> >>> transportation. Major arteries, such as Nassau Avenue in Greenpoint and
> >>> Fourth Avenue in Park Slope were impassable.
> >>>
> >>> And Southern Brooklyn was no better off.
> >>>
> >>> ???Here, in the ???outer-boroughs,??? we are used to being the
> >>> step-children of Manhattan and waiting for available plows, but there
> >>> are major streets in my district that haven???t see a plow at
> >>> all,??? Councilman David Greenfield (D???Midwood) said around
> >>> midday. ???I???ve never seen such a wholesale failure of government
> >>> to provide basic services.???
> >>>
> >>> Borough President Markowitz agreed. ???I would doubt the Upper East
> >>> Side is like this. Or the Upper West Side for that matter,??? he said.
> >>>
> >>> ???Something happened in this snowstorm that we got behind the curve.
> >>> Something came up short, and Brooklyn ??? took the brunt of it.???
> >>>
> >>> But Sanitation officials saw things differently.
> >>>
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> >>> ???There is no difference for any borough,??? said agency spokesman
> >>> Keith Mellis. ???It???s the same plan we use for the entire
> >>> city.???
> >>>
> >>> The city insisted that the culprit was simply the storm???s ferocity,
> >>> though abandoned cars at a variety of intersections didn???t help the
> >>> clean-up effort.
> >>>
> >>> At the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 21st Street in the South Slope,
> >>> for example, a traffic jam of abandoned cars imprisoned a plow,
> >>> rendering the vehicle impotent.
> >>>
> >>> The same scene played out down in Midwood, on Avenue N and East 13th
> >>> Street.
> >>>
> >>> ???I don???t want to hit the parked cars,??? a Sanitation worker
> >>> told our photographer on a side street, explaining why he didn???t
> >>> risk moving down the narrow road.
> >>>
> >>> The agency said it assembled 365 salt spreaders, 1,700 plows and 2,000
> >>> workers to clean up the mess. Meanwhile, Mayor Bloomberg didn???t
> >>> exactly feel the borough???s pain, saying at a Monday news conference
> >>> that ???the world has not come to an end.???
> >>>
> >>> ???The city???s going on,??? he added. ???Many people are taking
> >>> the day off. Most stores are open. There???s no reason for anyone to
> >>> panic.???
> >>>
> >>> At press time, no weather-related deaths have been reported. The roof of
> >>> a parking garage on Second Street in Park Slope collapsed because of the
> >>> snow, shutting down Fourth Avenue from Atlantic Avenue to Eighth Street.
> >>>
> >>> And things weren???t all bad. At least not for WR Hardware on
> >>> Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, where White Monday became Black Friday.
> >>>
> >>> ???People were lined up in front of the door this morning,??? said
> >>> manager Martin G, whose hottest sellers were ice choppers, shovels,
> >>> window-washing fluid and salt. A snowstorm ???always helps,??? he
> >>> added.
> >>>
> >>> And in Gowanus, fresh air was a welcome respite from the familiar, fetid
> >>> odor arising from the polluted Gowanus Canal.
> >>>
> >>> ???This is one of those rare occasions that you can???t smell the
> >>> stink,??? said President Street resident Linda Mariano.
> >>>
> >>> Brooklyn???s business hub ??? the Metrotech complex, which includes
> >>> the Community Newspaper Group Building ??? was all but abandoned, save
> >>> for a handful of hurried pedestrians, and a small boy with plastic bags
> >>> strangely tied over his winter boots, frolicking in a massive snowdrift.
> >>>
> >>> Train service was suspended in much of southern Brooklyn, trapping the
> >>> area in a snowy isolation.
> >>>
> >>> ???We haven???t been plowed and we can???t get out,??? said
> >>> Edith Storch, a resident of Sea Gate, a private community near Coney
> >>> Island, that is without public transportation altogether. ???I
> >>> don???t see my way out of here. We were praying we don???t need
> >>> medical care.???
> >>>
> >>> Transit spokeswoman Deirdre Parker said the storm scuttled the
> >>> agency???s pre-blizzard preparations, which included moving trains
> >>>
> >> >from outdoor yards to enclosed areas.
> >>
> >>> ???It just overwhelmed our equipment,??? she said. Ice on the
> >>> electrified rail stalled trains, some as long as seven hours. ???We
> >>> had snow blowers, but at some point during a blizzard, it just blows
> >>> right back.???
> >>>
> >>> Suspended train service meant a rare day of silence for those living
> >>> adjacent to the elevated tracks.
> >>>
> >>> ???It???s very quiet here today,??? said Barbara Donnelly, who has
> >>> lived on E. 15th Street and Avenue P, near the Q and B trains, for the
> >>> past 55 years. ???It seems strange without them.???
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> I've always
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