How you can help the Bowery Mission

Via the Bowery Mission website...

Current Needs
• Financial donations — We are serving three times as many as normal, and we will need to restock food and resources once we have power.
• Gasoline for our generators that are providing emergency power -- Please deliver to 227 Bowery (at Prince Street), 45-51 Avenue D (between 4th and 5th Streets), or our Administrative Headquarters at 132 Madison Ave. (Madison & 31 St).
• Blankets at The Bowery Mission Transitional Center — Please deliver to 45-51 Avenue D (between 4th and 5th Streets) or our Administrative Headquarters at 132 Madison Ave. (Madison & 31 St).
• Sweatshirts at The Bowery Mission ‚ Please deliver to 227 Bowery (at Prince Street) or our Administrative Headquarters at 132 Madison Ave. (Madison & 31 St).
• Large and XL coats and hoodies — Please deliver to 227 Bowery (at Prince Street) or our Administrative Headquarters at 132 Madison Ave. (Madison & 31 St).
• Men's jeans sizes 34-50 — Please deliver to 227 Bowery (at Prince Street) or our Administrative Headquarters at 132 Madison Ave. (Madison & 31 St).
• Men's boots sizes 8-13 — Please deliver to 227 Bowery (at Prince Street) or our Administrative Headquarters at 132 Madison Ave. (Madison & 31 St).
• Pantry items such as sugar, oatmeal, coffee, rice, potatoes — Please deliver to 227 Bowery (at Prince Street) or our Administrative Headquarters at 132 Madison Ave. (Madison & 31 St).

Volunteer Opportunities:
Help provide food for 200 people at a time (make and/or get and drop off at the Mission - 227 Bowery)

Make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and drop them off
Trays of cooked food, ready to be served
Large amounts of Gatorade and Iced Tea - Currently only serving water

Community

@zmack on @abcbeerco cleanup — 'we got hit very badly. But the sense of community is incredible and we're not giving up!'

— evgrieve (@evgrieve) November 1, 2012

Keep hearing the same variation of this... the sense of community... the community spirit after Sandy hit the area...

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Meant to say much earlier that I'm tweeting and retweeting stuff @EVgrieve ...

@evgrieve There's a charging station at the corner deli of East 7th and 1st Ave.

— POP BOP & SNAP (@popbopandsnap) November 1, 2012

The Bowery Mission needs help

URGENT NEED: We greatly need gasoline to power our generators. We're running very low. Please bring to 227 Bowery if you can!

— The Bowery Mission (@BoweryMission) November 1, 2012

No reservations

East 10th Street near First Avenue. Photo via ‏@stevemotts

The scene at Associated this afternoon

The Associated supermart on Ave C is emptying itself into a dumpster. Many folks from the hood arriving w handcarts. flic.kr/p/dpKYUd
— finitor (@finitor) November 1, 2012

As @Finitor noted in a follow-up tweet: "Situation I observed is more about people making calm sensible use of unspoiled discards, NOT desperation."

As noted earlier, the store here at East Eighth Street was hit hard by the storm surge Monday night. There are unconfirmed reports of looting here too.

A Con Ed call

An end in sight?? Received call from ConEd that service should be restored by 11pm Saturday for 5th St b/w A & B. @evgrieve @nheastvillage

— Angela Smith (@angela_g_smith) November 1, 2012

Anyone else receiving the robo calls?

Father's Heart needs volunteers to help deliver food to the elderly who weren't able to leave

From the EV Grieve inbox...

Friday, November 02, 2012, 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM

Group: Father's Heart, Hurricane Sandy Relief

Location: The Father's Heart, 545 East 11th Street

Attendance Limit: 25

Volunteers needed to help The Father's Heart distribute food to the elderly who were not able to evacuate on Aves C & D.

RSVP here.

C-Squat and MoRUS helping power the neighborhood

[Photo by Alta Tseng via Facebook]

Courtesy of Times's Up!, C-Squat and the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Spaces (MoRUS). Read more about it about at New York Natives here.

The folks at C-Squat also broke out the BBQ... Last night via @Finitor... ...

[Updated] Claim: People are dumpster diving for food in the East Village

people are dumpster diving in the East Village looking for food. that's how bad it is post #sandy
— Courtney Dunlop (@BeautyEditorNYC) November 1, 2012

Updated:

Here's a tweet via Jonathan Vigliotti, a correspondent for News 4 New York...

Desperate families in East Village dumpster dive for discarded groceries. @nbcnewyork @nbcnews twitter.com/JonVig4NY/stat…

— Jonathan Vigliotti (@JonVig4NY) November 1, 2012

A reader who witnessed this thought it wasn't necessarily out of desperation ... just people taking advantage of free groceries, with the rummaging happening to find the items that hadn't expired...

Updated 5:59:

View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com.

[Updated] East Village restaurants that are serving now

Fork in the Road has a list of East Village restaurants open right now.

Find the article here.

Quickly:

• Paradiso on Avenue B
• Ray's on Avenue A
• Macaron Parlour on St. Mark's
• Oyama on 1st Avenue

What else? Please let me know in the comments.

Updated:

Luke's Lobster on East Seventh Street
JoeDoe on East First Street for drinks at 6 p.m.
Spina on Avenue B at East 11th Street
Professor Thom's on Second Avenue
Shervins Cafe on East Seventh Street near Avenue A opens at 6
Bar 82 on St. Mark's Place near St. Mark's
Zerza on East Sixth Street

Free medical care until 6 p.m. on East 2nd Street

Via Dr. Dave Ores:

I’m open today if I can help anyone. Until 6 pm. 189 E 2nd Street between Avenue A and Avenue B.

The view from Williamsburg last night

Via Rob Ferri ...

LES food and distribution sites

Via EveryBlock:

Food and water distribution sites will open throughout lower Manhattan at 3 p.m., Mayor Bloomberg announced today.

Sites below 14th Street include:

10th Street between Avenues C and D
Catherine Street between Monroe and Cherry Streets (Smith Houses)
Pitt and Houston Streets
Grand and Clinton Streets — water only
Bowery and Division Street (Confucius Plaza)

In addition, the National Guard, NYC Service and the Salvation Army will go door-to-door in residential high-rises in order to check on seniors and those with disabilities who have been affected by the blackout.

The line for water and ice now at Union Square

Via ‏@LinzaPinz

Resident shares photos of wiped-out apartment; looks forward to return

EVG reader Mark Smith shares these photos of his basement apartment that got wiped out in the storm surge on Monday night ...

His employer put him up in temporary quarters. But he is looking forward to returning to the neighborhood as soon as he can ... he asked if anyone had leads on an apartment. Here's his email.

St. Brigid's at night

Last night.

Last night

Somewhere along East Ninth Street near Avenue C. The remnants of a flood-damaged apartment.

A quick look at Avenue C and D this morning

Around 8:15 a.m. or so... As you would expect, a lot of activity at the Con Ed substation (it doesn't look so busy in this photo, just trust me...)

...a common sight... hydrants are open... I saw a few residents of the Lillian Wald houses fill up buckets and take them back inside the buildings...

The remnants of a big tree that fell on East Seventh Street near Avenue C....

It is difficult to tell how much damage there are to the businesses and buildings on the parts of Avenue C and D that were flooded (I believe the water stopped around East Fifth Street at Avenue C) ... Most places look fine on the outside, where the gates are down. I know there are many flooded basements. Yesterday, there were all sorts of gas-powered pumps in action.

The Associated on Avenue C at East Eight Street was hit particularly hard. There appeared to be an inch of water on the floor this morning. A worker was carrying out bags of mucky products.

I'm still playing catch-up with all this. Please let me know if you have any updates or anything Sandy related.

Tuesday night on St. Mark's Place during the blackout

St. Mark's Place on Tuesday. Via Gothamist, who has more photos of the East Village in the blackout here.