Two
Days After
Sandy, NYSE Is
Open, Zuccotti
Park Lit Up
But Empty
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
LOWER
MANHATTAN,
October 31 --
Two days after
Hurricane
Sandy, and a
year after
standoffs
between Occupy
Wall Street
and Mayor
Bloomberg,
Zuccotti Park
stood lit up
and empty
Wednesday
night.
Two blocks
south on Wall
Street itself,
the New York
Stock Exchange
was lit up.
But the block
to the east
was dark, as
were the
mazelike
streets
around.
Had the moment
come and gone?
The Federal
Reserve Bank
of New York
was lit up, a
Con Edison
18-wheel truck
rumbling in
front. Does
the Fed get
its own Con Ed
service, as it
has its own
police?
City Hall was
illuminated,
while Park Row
had no traffic
lights. New
York Downtown
Hospital was
only half lit,
housing
project behind
it all dark
but for
flickering
candles in
some windows.
A
denizen of
West Street
told Inner
City Press of
his three hour
commute south
from 89th
Street on the
M15 bus. "I'll
have to
climb up 18
flights of
stairs," he
said, "to see
if my dog
is still okay.
Then either
take him
uptown or just
stay there in
the
dark.
Another
commuter
told of a cab
trying to
charge him and
his son $50
for a
ride uptown,
charging extra
for the family
of two which
usually
couldn't be
done. Now with
school
canceled until
the end of the
week,
new challenges
emerge.
The
UN confirmed
by email it is
open Thursday,
but did not
mention the
"problems"
in the Dag
Hammarskjold
Library.
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