Posted on 11/02/2012 11:03:12 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
Residents of Manhattan's 19-building, 1,191-apartment Jacob Riis projects, have been without power and water since late Monday evening, and there's been no sign of help from local government.
In all, city officials estimate some 49,000 public housing residents have been stranded by the storm, left without the resources to escape or find alternative lodging.
When Getty photographer Mario Tama ventured inside, he found residents huddled in living rooms lit by solitary candles and gas stoves running constantly for heat.
Here are a few images from Tama's visit on Thursday:
The Jacob Riis project is located on farmost edge of the East Village, between Avenue D and the Franklin D Roosevelt Drive and covering seven blocks between 6th and 13 street. Each of the 19 buildings is between six and 14 stories high.
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The Peeps in the Projects are the very people obama organizes. LOL!!!!
Look at the pics at the site - 3rd world living.
Rush reporting hallways are being used.
Ya know someone should have come up with two illegal big gulps taped together and a makeshift paddle and sell them as sit on top kayaks.
Bloomberg approved environmentally correct recycling
You forgot standing in gas lines for hours together, looting stores together, shivering in the dark together, pissing in the hallway together, among many more fun things.
They want ribs, steaks, biscuits, and gravy - aint no soy in da hood. What do you think this is SOHO or Tribeca?
LOL!!!! Stop - making me hurt!
How funny would that be!!!
Huh? Yesterday they said most people still out wouldn’t have power until the 11th.
Is it "giving" when the resources "given" are taken at gunpoint from someone else? They are in essence receivers of stolen goods. as H. L. Mencken once said
"The state, or, to make matters more concrete, the government, consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting "A" to satisfy "B". In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advanced auction on stolen goods.These people are more of an insidious the enemy of the America I grew up in than Al Quaida. I reiterate - screw 'em.
A NATION-WIDE martial Law won’t be called over a riot in a suburb of NY city... that’s kinda goofy.
What exactly are they being stranded from? It’s not jobs. The roofs they have over their heads are paid for by those very taxpayers who don’t have a house today.
Hopefully the voting booth on Teusday!
and Bush did it, with the help of the right people
remember General Honore standing there watching people load up for evacuation?
Bloomberg is going to epitomize “stuck on stupid” within the next 3 days
those people are, at a minimum, soiling and trashing those high rises to the point of inhabitability, so evacuate them now or evacuate them later.
One big fire due to an open gas oven door and KA-Boom
Shouldn’t someone fundamentally transform the situation?
Well, they can’t flush the toilets. A friend in the East Twenties is lugging water in buckets from a “faucet” on the corner, but he only lives a few flights up. Bloomie had better forget the financial district and the marathon and help these people out before an epidemic breaks out.
It's a real hardship when they can't get their beer, dope, cigarettes, and lotto tickets.
Congress would have to move the day for everybody. That’s what I was trying to say. This might happen, unless there is some serious progress this weekend.
Funny, I was looking at the storm track and it was pretty obvious for at least 36 hours that the storm was going to hit the Jersey shore at a right angle. The reason it did that was that it ran directly into a cold front from the north east, a northern hurricane. Plus the flooding of NO came from the Lake, after the storm had just missed the city. It was then that the canals betrayed the city. But anyone in the city could guess what was going to happen: the surge comes in from the South augmenting the high tide, and essentially damming up the Hudson. The whole thing then spills over lower Manhattan and the Hudson is deflected west into New Jersey. The real surprise was the size of the surge. No one could calculate that.
Among the many other chestnuts that come to mind, is “Silence is consent.” You pay your taxes quietly, obediently; you don’t wait to see the gunpoint factor realized, it’s there well enough.
I quite understand your position, but your wrath ought to be directed to the government that holds the gun. There are so many causes to end up in public housing and on the dole. (May you never know a single one!) Not so many reasons, to rob the productive.
But... do they gots they Obamaphones to keep Obama in president?
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