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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg confronted by angry Brooklyn residents over Sandy response
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg updates the media on the city's recovery efforts to Superstorm Sandy Nov. 2, 2012, in New York in this picture provided the mayor's office. / AP Photo/NYC Mayor's Office
NEW YORK More than a dozen angry residents confronted Mayor Michael Bloomberg as he visited a school in hard-hit Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn.
Mud from the storm is still piled like small snow banks in the street there.
Cold weather a new problem for Sandy victims
The residents complained Monday about a continuing lack of power and heat, and about spoiled food in their refrigerators.
They also said they were afraid of burglaries.
The mayor told them the city is trying its hardest to solve all of the problems related to the storm.
He said residents can call 311 for directions to a center where they can get food and clothing.
Commuters streaming into New York City on Monday endured long waits and crowded trains, giving the recovering transit system a stress test a week after Superstorm Sandy ravaged the eastern third of the country, with New York and New Jersey bearing the brunt of the destruction.
Trains were so crowded Monday on the Long Island Rail Road that dozens of people missed their trains. With PATH trains between New Jersey and Manhattan still out, lines for the ferry in Jersey City quickly stretched to several hundred people by daybreak.
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One commuter in line pleaded into his cellphone, "Can I please work from home? This is outrageous," but many more took the complicated commute as just another challenge after a difficult week.
"There's not much we can do. We'll get there whatever time we can, and our jobs have to understand. It's better late than absent," said Louis Holmes of Bayonne, as he waited to board a ferry in Jersey City to his job as a security guard at Manhattan's Sept. 11 memorial site.
The good news in New York City was that, unlike last week, service on key subway lines connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn under the East River had been restored. But officials warned that other water-logged tunnels still weren't ready for Monday's rush hour and that fewer-than-normal trains were running — a recipe for a difficult commute.
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On Long Island, Janice Gholson could not get off her train from Ronkonkoma and Wyandanch because of overcrowding, and ended up overshooting her stop.
"I've never taken the train before. There were people blocking the doorway so I got stuck on the train," she said.
Bloomberg took the subway to work Monday. He was joined by many of the students returning to class in the nation's largest school system. About 90 percent of the 1,700 schools reopened for the first time since Sandy hit last Monday, the mayor said.
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They have to find places for the Homeless to stay as the cold is becoming a real concern to older and younger Folks .
How these people are still on the streets is beyound question a week after the storm .
Conservatives always preach the Private Sector can do better than the Government.
Well, when is the Private Sector going to provide the estimated $50 Billions to rebuilt?
Conservatives want to eliminate FEMA but the Cities and States have no $$$.
What is the best solution?
Too bad they didn't all drown.
It is your constitutional right to defend what is yours, so do it. As for electricity, our fore fathers (and mothers) lived without it so buck up and get inventive. Power will be back, lines are down and being repaired as rapidly as possible. Nothing is going to get done any faster by yelling and complaining, so unless you are doing it to stay warm why bother.
Here is a good thing, your electric, cable, and in some cases gas and water bills are going to be a lot less next month. Be sure to keep track of the outage time.