After
Sandy, Lone
Lights on Wall
Street,
Flooded
Underpass,
Half Story
from UN
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
WALL
STREET,
October 31 --
With the southern
tip of
Manhattan
virtually
occupied
by the trucks
and machinery
of utility,
telecommunications
and
"environmental
emergency"
companies,
long canyons
office
buildings lay
dark on
Wednesday
night, 48
hours after
Hurricane
Sandy hit.
Facing
the East River
a highway
underpass by
South Ferry
was still
flooded
with twelve
feet of water,
a pick-up
truck nearly
entirely
covered.
Up
on Wall Street
while the New
York Stock
Exchange was
lit, the block
east of it was
entirely dark,
but for lone
security
guards with
flashlights.
"Priorities,"
as one source
signed to
Inner City
Press.
The atrium at
60 Wall Street
was opened and
surprisingly
lit and empty.
One wondered
if this would
have have been
a time for
Occupy Wall
Street. But so
does timing
go. There are
OWS-ers
helping in Red
Hook and
elsewhere.
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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