Tracking the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
People walk through the heavily damaged Far Rockaway neighborhood in Queens. (Getty) Credit: People walk through the heavily damaged Far Rockaway neighborhood in Queens. (Getty)
There will be 330 buses set up to bridge the train gaps and get people between Brooklyn and Manhattan. Those buses will be leaving from Barclays Center, MetroTech and Hewes Street stations.
Subways expected to resume Thursday include:
- The Nos. 1 and 2 trains will run from the Bronx to Times Square.
- No. 4 trains will run from Woodlawn to Grand Central and from Borough Hall and New Lots Ave.
- No. 5 trains will run express in Brooklyn between Atlantic Avenue and Flatbush Avenue.
- No. 6 trains will run between Pelham Bay Park and Grand Central.
- The 42nd Street Shuttle will run. The Brooklyn shuttles will not run.
- A trains will run between 168th Street and Penn Station and between Jay Street/MetroTech and Lefferts Blvd.
- D trains will run between 205th Street and Herald Square and Between Atlantic Avenue and Bay Parkway.
- F trains will run between 179th Street and Herald Square and between Jay Street/MetroTech and Avenue X.
- J trains will run between Jamaica and Hewes Street.
- L trains run between Broadway Junction and Rockaway Parkway.
- M trains will run between Myrtle Avenue and Metropolitan Avenue.
- N trains will run between Ditmars Blvd and Herald Square.
- R trains will run between Jay Street/MetroTech and 95th Street.
- The B, C, E, G, Q, No. 3 and No. 7 lines will be suspended.
Metro North will be returning in limited service with some hourly trains on the
Harlem Line. There are hopes of having some LIRR service running by Thursday morning.
President Obama urged people to listen to evacuation orders given by state and city officials as quickly as possible during a news conference about the storm.
“Please listen to what your state and local officials are saying,” he said. “If you are not evacuating when you are asked to evacuate, you’re putting first responders in danger.”
Asked about his decision to cancel campaign events for next week’s presidential election, Obama said, “I am not worried at this point about the impact on the election … The election will take care of itself next week.”
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney also canceled campaign events scheduled for Monday night and Tuesday in Wisconsin, Florida and Iowa "out of sensitivity for the millions of Americans in the path of Hurricane Sandy," his campaign told Reuters.
City public schools will remain closed on Tuesday, Mayor Bloomberg announced, saying there is "no chance" mass transit would be back to normal. He warned any residents that have not followed mandatory evacuation orders in zone A to "leave immediately."
The mayor also said that "we've already had as much flooding along the FDR [Drive] ... as we did during Hurricane Irene."
Gov. Cuomo urged New Yorkers to stay inside, even if the weather doesn’t look bad yet. "The worst is still coming," he said. "You do not need to be going to the beach to take pictures."
The MTA ended bus routes at 9 p.m.
MTA subways made their last run at 7 p.m. as the agency had a system-wide shutdown for the second time in its history; the first was last year for Hurricane Irene.
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tion near Times Square closed/Photo by Getty Images)
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