Posted on 05 November 2012. Tags: Bronx, Edgewater Park, Hurricane, Sandy
Residents from the Edgewater Park section of the Bronx have started donating and volunteering to help highly-affected Queens communities recover from Hurricane Sandy, NY1 reports.
Firefighters and volunteers from Edgewater Park operated in the Breezy Point section of Queens, along with other neighborhoods in the Rockaways.
They bought supplies and lent material, including a generator, to residents of these devastated areas. In Breezy Point, a massive fire burnt more than 100 homes during the hurricane.
Posted in Newswire
Posted on 04 November 2012. Tags: elections, Politics, Sandy, Sandy recovery
Three polling locations in the Bronx have changed due to Superstorm Sandy, the Board of Elections in the City of New York announced. Residents originally stationed to vote at Locust Point Civic Hall, 4400 Locust Point Drive, will now go to the MTA Throggs Neck Parking Lot, 4260 Throggs Neck Expressway. Voters headed to PS 69 Journey Prep School, 560 Thieriot Avenue, will now go to the Archimedes Academy of Math, 456 White Plains Road. And residents for the Manhattan College Draddy Hall location, at 4513 Manhattan Coll Parkway, will now vote at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, located at 3700 Henry Hudson Parkway.
The red balloons on the map represent the new polling locations. The blue ballons signify the former sites.
To find out your polling location, check the Board of Elections’ poll site locator.
View Three Bronx Polling Locations Changed Due to Sandy in a larger map
Posted in Bronx Life, Bronx Neighborhoods, Newswire, Politics