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Volunteers Needed at Seward Park Emergency Shelter

We have just received a plea from Mayor Bloomberg's office, via Community Board 3's Susan Stetzer, asking for help staffing the shelter at Seward Park High School at 350 Grand St., the primary emergency housing for lower Manhattan flood zone...

Lower East Side Storm Watch 11:20 a.m.

The Seward Park High School evacuation center and emergency shelter is now seeing some activity. A number of residents have checked in. News crews are awaiting a facility tour from mayor's office.

Lower East Side Storm Watch 11 a.m.

The rain begins on Grand Street...
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Storm Watch Saturday: Scenes Around the LES

The rain began to spatter around 10 a.m., as Lower East Side residents and businesses braced for Hurricane Irene's impact. The storm made landfall near Point Lookout, N.C. this morning, and began churning up the East Coast. Along the East...

Lower East Side Storm Watch 10:55 a.m.

Fine Fare on Clinton Street is sill packed but the shelves are still full and the a.c. Is going full blast.

Storm Watch Saturday: Lower East Side Edition

This was the scene last night outside Seward Park High School, the neighborhood's designated hurricane shelter. There were plenty of supplies on hand, cots set up inside -- but no one had checked in. A newspaper photographer and some...
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Waiting for Irene: Saturday Morning on the Lower East Side

Good morning. At this hour it's 75 degrees in New York City, with 90% humidity.  While rain is starting to come down in southern New Jersey, forecasters say it won't start to fall here until around 3 this afternoon....

Hurricane Update: MTA Stops at Noon, Evacuation in Zone A

 As Hurricane Irene approaches the North Carolina coast this afternoon, New Yorkers are scrambling for provisions and pasting duct tape on windows. At Seward Park High School, workers unloaded pallets of water, baby supplies and other emergency provisions from large trucks,...

Zone A Evacuation Information

The Office of Emergency Management has now posted some better maps on Facebook showing Lower Manhattan's evacuation zones. Mayor Bloomberg has ordered a mandatory evacuation of Zone A by 5 p.m. tomorrow, due to Hurricane Irene.  This includes sections...
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Hurricane Alert: Lower East Side Edition

The Weather Channel graphics certainly look scary. This morning officials up and down the East Coast are not taking any chances, as Hurricane Irene begins to batter the Carolinas. There's now a Hurricane Watch in effect for New York...
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