Post-Sandy Help for Business Owners: Sunday Evening Update
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As part of Inc.'s ongoing coverage of Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath, we are monitoring sources of useful information to business owners about business recovery services and resources in the New York area.
Check back regularly for updates. What you're reading was updated at 7 pm Monday.
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The Small Business Adminstration has set up a disaster recovery center at 900 Lafayette Avenue in Bridgeport, Conn. For more help available from the SBA, see below.
AT&T is offering charging and cell phone service at 16 locations in New York and New Jersey. Find them here.
Two FEMA centers will open tomorrow at 8am in New Jersey, one at Cape May Courthouse, the other at Drum Point Elementary School. Another center has opened at 11331 Beach Channel Drive in Rockaway, NY. More openings to come. In addition, FEMA is accepting financial aid applications from residents in the eight NJ counties hardest hit by Sandy: Atlantic, Cape May, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean and Union
The federal government is providing about 200 buses that will be used to take commuters from emergency park-and-ride locations in New Jersey to ferries in the Hoboken area, as well as directly into lower Manhattan.
Con Edison said approximately 156,800 customers were without electricity, out of an estimated 950,000 affected. That includes 3,500 in Manhattan, 40,800 in Queens, 22,800 in Brooklyn, 15,000 in Staten Island and 6,700 in the Bronx. You can report downed power lines, outages, and check service restoration status by computer or mobile device at www.conEd.com. You also can call 1-800-75-CONED (1-800-752-6633)
In Westchester County, the company reported 68,000 customers out of service. Approximately 150,700 customers had their service restored.
Con Edison expects to have the vast majority of those impacted by the storm restored by the weekend.
The company also said it was focusing on steam restoration for the next few days. In addition:
- The entire Fulton network should be completely restored by the end of today.
- ConEdison’s weekend goal is to restore power to as many schools and voting places as possible.
- Projection: Most customers will have power by November 11th.
- ConEdison said that the Greeley network should be restored by the end of today.
Airbnb is waving its fee for hosts in Sandy-slammed areas. The company is also subtly encouraging discounts in affected areas by making it easy for hosts to lower their prices by 50%, making rooms with power and heat available to those who don't have either. Check out the latest update on the Airbnb blog.
Red Cross
Follow the organization’s tweets for updates on deliveries, hot meals, etc. https://twitter.com/RedCross.
Here is its updated list of food spots in New York:
http://newsroom.redcross.org/sandy-fixed-feeding-locations/
The organization reported this afternoon that all 320 of its emergency vehicles are on the road in affected areas. As they should be.
Conductors will honor the October monthly rail pass until Nov. 9. In addition:
- Limited service restored on three rail lines: The Raritan Valley Line, Main/Port Jervis, and North Jersey Coast Line.
- The Atlantic City Line is up and running on a full service schedule.
- The Northeast Corridor trains are back, but with an altered schedule. See it here.
- The 603 and 613 line are now running, along with the 34 and 177.
- Both Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North will be operating Monday on close to normal schedules.
- The number 1 train subway service will extend south to 14th Street
- The 2 train will go from the Bronx to Flatbush Avenue and the 3 train will run from 148th Street to New Lots Avenue.
- The L train should be restored next week.
- The A will still make local stops through Manhattan and Brooklyn for Monday’s rush hour. C train service has resumed between 145 Street Station and Euclid Avenue Station. E train service has resumed between Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer Station and World Trade Center Station.
- D trains will operate between 205 Street Station (Bronx) and Bay Parkway Station. It will make local stops between 125 Street Station and 59 Street Station. The F train service has resumed service between 179 Street Station and Avenue X Station.
- M trains are operating between 71 Avenue Station and Metropolitan Avenue Station.
- The 7 train is now running in both directions from the Times Square-42 Street Station to the Flushing-Main Street Station.
Time Warner Cable
The cable provider has set up wifi and charging stations at Seaview and Quincy Avenues and 837 Father Capodanno Blvd on hard-hit Staten Island. For the location of other relief stations, see @TWCable_NYC
