Bloomberg Diverts Food, Generators from Devastated Staten Island to NYC Marathon - 12160 Social Network2024-03-19T13:44:58Zhttps://12160.info/forum/topics/bloomberg-diverts-food-generators-from-devastated-staten-island?xg_source=activity&feed=yes&xn_auth=noMarathon canceled, but genera…tag:12160.info,2012-11-05:2649739:Comment:10329492012-11-05T18:14:13.706ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
<p><font face="ARIAL,VERDANA,HELVETICA"><font size="+7"><tt><b>Marathon canceled, but generators and supplies still sit unused in park</b></tt></font></font></p>
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<li class="byline">By REBECCA ROSENBERG, SALLY GOLDENBERG, KATE KOWSH and BRUCE GOLDING</li>
<li class="date updated"><span>Last Updated:</span> 11:45 AM, November 5, 2012</li>
<li class="date posted"><span>Posted:</span> 1:02 AM, November 5, 2012</li>
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<p>What a run-around!</p>
<p>The city left more than a…</p>
<p><font face="ARIAL,VERDANA,HELVETICA"><font size="+7"><tt><b>Marathon canceled, but generators and supplies still sit unused in park</b></tt></font></font></p>
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<li class="byline">By REBECCA ROSENBERG, SALLY GOLDENBERG, KATE KOWSH and BRUCE GOLDING</li>
<li class="date updated"><span>Last Updated:</span> 11:45 AM, November 5, 2012</li>
<li class="date posted"><span>Posted:</span> 1:02 AM, November 5, 2012</li>
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<p>What a run-around!</p>
<p>The city left more than a dozen generators desperately needed by cold and hungry New Yorkers who lost their homes to Hurricane Sandy still stranded in Central Park yesterday.</p>
<p>And that’s not all — stashed near the finish line of the canceled marathon were 20 heaters, tens of thousands of Mylar “space” blankets, jackets, 106 crates of apples and peanuts, at least 14 pallets of bottled water and 22 five-gallon jugs of water.</p>
<p>This while people who lost their homes in the Rockaways, Coney Island and Staten Island were freezing and going hungry.</p>
<div id="intext_area_middle" class="intext_area"><div class="intext_object intext_photo"><img alt="THE GOODS: Would-be marathoners who circled Central Park yesterday were the reason given for not moving some crucial supplies." title="THE GOODS: Would-be marathoners who circled Central Park yesterday were the reason given for not moving some crucial supplies." src="http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2012/11/05/news/web_photos/05.1n008.generators2.C--300x300.jpg" height="300" width="300"/><div class="photo-credit">Warzer Jaff</div>
<div class="caption"><strong>THE GOODS:</strong> <strong>Would-be marathoners who circled Central Park yesterday were the reason given for not moving some crucial supplies.</strong></div>
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<div class="intext_object intext_photo"><img alt="THE GOODS: Would-be marathoners who circled Central Park yesterday were the reason given for not moving these crucial supplies (above)." title="THE GOODS: Would-be marathoners who circled Central Park yesterday were the reason given for not moving these crucial supplies (above)." src="http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2012/11/05/news/web_photos/05.1n008.generators3.C--300x300.jpg" height="300" width="300"/><div class="caption"><strong>THE GOODS:</strong> <strong>Would-be marathoners who circled Central Park yesterday were the reason given for not moving these crucial supplies (above).</strong></div>
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<div class="intext_object intext_photo"><img alt="THE GOODS: Would-be marathoners who circled Central Park yesterday were the reason given for not moving these crucial supplies (above)." title="THE GOODS: Would-be marathoners who circled Central Park yesterday were the reason given for not moving these crucial supplies (above)." src="http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2012/11/05/news/web_photos/05.1n008.generators4.C--300x300.jpg" height="300" width="300"/><div class="caption"><strong>THE GOODS:</strong> <strong>Would-be marathoners who circled Central Park yesterday were the reason given for not moving these crucial supplies (above).</strong></div>
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<p>Michael Murphy, of Staten Island, who had no power and no heat, said yesterday, “We needed 100 percent of the resources here.”</p>
<p>“If those generators were here, we maybe could have had some light for the cleanup effort,” he said. “Those generators would really have come in handy.’’</p>
<p>Larry Gold, 61, of Rockaway Park, who has difficulty breathing, can’t use his oxygen tank without electricity.</p>
<p>“I need power to breathe,’’ he said.</p>
<p>“Right now all I can do is sit outside my house and pray that they bring us a generator.’’</p>
<p>A marathon security worker still working yesterday from a generator-powered trailer in the park, said the power sources had not been moved to devastated areas of the city because of an impromptu race run by marathon holdovers in the park.</p>
<p>“Once we found out they’d still be running a marathon, we had to call all the towing vendors and tell them they couldn’t come,” he said.</p>
<p>“We can’t have these trucks coming in with the runners. It’s a safety issue.”</p>
<p>But most runners in the non-sanctioned run around the park were upset to learn they were being held responsible for disrupting rescue efforts.</p>
<p>“I’m sure they could have asked the runners to pause to remove the things,” said Scott Hawley, 31, of Hell’s Kitchen.</p>
<p>“It shouldn’t take long, and if any of us knew this, we would want that to be the priority.”</p>
<p>And the city had no explanation for why it didn’t simply ask the runners to stay out of the way of the trucks — or send cops to clear a path.</p>
<p>City Hall also did not explain why the equipment and food were not moved out of the park on Saturday — since the race had been canceled a day earlier.</p>
<p>Richard Finn, a spokesman for the New York Road Runners, which pledged all its supplies for disaster relief, also declined to say why the food and equipment weren’t moved out earlier.</p>
<p>The club “focused on routing any available resources to the needy in partnership with local authorities, and making our own personal contributions where we can,” he said.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/running_into_brick_wall_O7eD7uSm23n0BLdYhMz9eJ/1" target="_blank">REST OF IT</a></p> As always, things are…tag:12160.info,2012-11-05:2649739:Comment:10327602012-11-05T16:58:34.838ZBasilhttps://12160.info/profile/BasilLesyshyn
<p> As always, things aren't as they seem.......</p>
<p> <a href="http://hopegirl2012.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/when-are-we-going-to-stop-this-insanity-highlights-from-the-east-coast-hurricane-they-are-not-telling-you-about/" target="_blank">http://hopegirl2012.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/when-are-we-going-to-stop-this-insanity-highlights-from-the-east-coast-hurricane-they-are-not-telling-you-about/</a></p>
<p> As always, things aren't as they seem.......</p>
<p> <a href="http://hopegirl2012.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/when-are-we-going-to-stop-this-insanity-highlights-from-the-east-coast-hurricane-they-are-not-telling-you-about/" target="_blank">http://hopegirl2012.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/when-are-we-going-to-stop-this-insanity-highlights-from-the-east-coast-hurricane-they-are-not-telling-you-about/</a></p> Marathon canceled, but genera…tag:12160.info,2012-11-05:2649739:Comment:10326782012-11-05T15:11:24.569Ztruthhttps://12160.info/profile/adap2k
<p>Marathon canceled, but generators and supplies still sit unused in park</p>
<p>By ANTONIO ANTENUCCI, REUVEN FENTON, C.J. SULLIVAN and AARON FEIS.<br></br> Last Updated: 9:45 AM, November 5, 2012<br></br> Posted: 1:02 AM, November 5, 2012</p>
<p>What a run-around!</p>
<p>The city left more than a dozen generators desperately needed by cold and hungry New Yorkers who lost their homes to Hurricane Sandy still stranded in Central Park yesterday.</p>
<p>And that’s not all — stashed near the finish line…</p>
<p>Marathon canceled, but generators and supplies still sit unused in park</p>
<p>By ANTONIO ANTENUCCI, REUVEN FENTON, C.J. SULLIVAN and AARON FEIS.<br/> Last Updated: 9:45 AM, November 5, 2012<br/>
Posted: 1:02 AM, November 5, 2012</p>
<p>What a run-around!</p>
<p>The city left more than a dozen generators desperately needed by cold and hungry New Yorkers who lost their homes to Hurricane Sandy still stranded in Central Park yesterday.</p>
<p>And that’s not all — stashed near the finish line of the canceled marathon were 20 heaters, tens of thousands of Mylar “space” blankets, jackets, 106 crates of apples and peanuts, at least 14 pallets of bottled water and 22 five-gallon jugs of water.</p>
<p>This while people who lost their homes in the Rockaways, Coney Island and Staten Island were freezing and going hungry.</p>
<p>Michael Murphy, of Staten Island, who had no power and no heat, said yesterday, “We needed 100 percent of the resources here.”</p>
<p>“If those generators were here, we maybe could have had some light for the cleanup effort,” he said. “Those generators would really have come in handy.’’</p>
<p>More: <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/running_into_brick_wall_O7eD7uSm23n0BLdYhMz9eJ" target="_blank">http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/running_into_brick_wall_O7eD7uSm23n0BLdYhMz9eJ</a></p> Marathon Canceled After Becom…tag:12160.info,2012-11-03:2649739:Comment:10313112012-11-03T12:06:11.351ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
<h1>Marathon Canceled After Becoming Lightning Rod For Criticism</h1>
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<p>Mayor Michael Bloomberg and organizers of New York City Marathon cancelled the race Friday amid growing concerns that holding the event would divert resources…</p>
<h1>Marathon Canceled After Becoming Lightning Rod For Criticism</h1>
<h3 class="byline">By <a href="http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=ANDREW+GROSSMAN+&bylinesearch=true">ANDREW GROSSMAN</a> and <a href="http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=MATTHEW+FUTTERMAN&bylinesearch=true">MATTHEW FUTTERMAN</a></h3>
<p>Mayor Michael Bloomberg and organizers of New York City Marathon cancelled the race Friday amid growing concerns that holding the event would divert resources from cleanup efforts in the wake of superstorm Sandy.</p>
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<p>Mr. Bloomberg had said as recently as early Friday afternoon that the marathon, scheduled to start Sunday morning, would go on and serve as a demonstration that the city was recovering from the storm and moving forward.</p>
<p>But other elected officials from around the city said holding it so soon after a major storm would be an insult to hard-hit residents still cleaning up and worried that it would get in the way of recovering from a storm that killed at least 41 people in New York City alone.</p>
<p>"We would not want a cloud to hang over the race or its participants, and so we have decided to cancel it," Mr. Bloomberg and the organizers said in a joint news release. "We cannot allow a controversy over an athletic event—even one as meaningful as this—to distract attention away from all the critically important work that is being done to recover from the storm and get our city back on track."</p>
<p>MORE: <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204712904578095160605290492.html?mod=%3C%25mst.param%28LINKMODPREFIX%29" target="_blank">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204712904578095160605290492.html?mod=%3C%25mst.param%28LINKMODPREFIX%29</a></p> lol, great pic Suzie! You kno…tag:12160.info,2012-11-03:2649739:Comment:10313432012-11-03T06:00:16.470ZTarahttps://12160.info/profile/Tara
<p>lol, great pic Suzie! You know what they say about little dogs having a syndrome where they can't help themselves but to yip, yap and attack all bigger dogs or predators. Me thinks that Bloomberg must suffer with the same kind of syndrome. It's either that or the little weenie (and not the dog) syndrome... if you know what I mean? ;) </p>
<p>lol, great pic Suzie! You know what they say about little dogs having a syndrome where they can't help themselves but to yip, yap and attack all bigger dogs or predators. Me thinks that Bloomberg must suffer with the same kind of syndrome. It's either that or the little weenie (and not the dog) syndrome... if you know what I mean? ;) </p> …tag:12160.info,2012-11-03:2649739:Comment:10311132012-11-03T05:51:32.872Zsuziehttps://12160.info/profile/suzie
<p> <img src="http://bluebirdofbitterness.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/littlest-dictator.jpg"/></p>
<p> <img src="http://bluebirdofbitterness.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/littlest-dictator.jpg"/></p> tag:12160.info,2012-11-02:2649739:Comment:10306822012-11-02T20:08:16.826ZCharles Royer Sr.https://12160.info/profile/CharlesRoyerSr
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<p>Makes me want to puke.</p>
<p>Makes me want to puke.</p> One simple question.
Why is t…tag:12160.info,2012-11-02:2649739:Comment:10306302012-11-02T16:46:42.850ZLawrence Edward Calcutthttps://12160.info/profile/LawrenceEdwasdCalcutt
<p>One simple question.</p>
<p>Why is the American flag pictured in behind the .... do I realy expect an answer?, no.</p>
<p>And another question,</p>
<p>Is it the flag of New York City behind him?</p>
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<p>One simple question.</p>
<p>Why is the American flag pictured in behind the .... do I realy expect an answer?, no.</p>
<p>And another question,</p>
<p>Is it the flag of New York City behind him?</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1933553732?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1933553732?profile=original" width="356"/></a></p> The mask comes off!tag:12160.info,2012-11-02:2649739:Comment:10306212012-11-02T15:42:38.398ZAndy Anduerhttps://12160.info/profile/AndyAnduer
<p>The mask comes off!</p>
<p>The mask comes off!</p>