In Power and Water Outages, the World Comes to Lower Manhattan

treehugger.com 01 Nov '12, 4pm

In Power and Water Outages, the World Comes to Lower Manhattan

The ongoing power outages in Lower Manhattan and Midtown on the east side, accompanied for many people by no running water and heat, contrasted with the now seeming luxury in the rest of the island really brings the world to the United States. This description from the New York Times pretty much sums it up: As downtowners straggle in, some with piercings and leather jackets and mutts on rope leashes, clustering around power strips by the A.T.M.s at all hours, the Midtown tourists take pictures through the large picture windows, capturing what may be the closest they will come to the City of Darkness.“They say, ‘Look at these poor people,’” said Agata Shultz, 19, who walked up from the East Village and sat on a heated window ledge reading philosophy in Polish and checking her e-mail. “It’s like a zoo.” Eric Liebowitz, a photographer who lives on 19th Street, sat on the floo...

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RT @SirAriGold: In Power and Water Outages, the World Comes to Lower Manhattan : TreeHugger [link] via @TreeHugger
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RT @stef_palmer: NYC is a great demonstration of how nearly half the worlds population live. A great reminder to focus on the #mdg [link]
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NYC is a great demonstration of how nearly half the worlds population live. A great reminder to focus on the #mdg [link]
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RT @RDCFineHomes: RT @treehugger: Post-Hurricane NYers get taste of how millions around world live. Carrying water-no plumbing-no power. [link]
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RT @treehugger: Post-Hurricane NYers get taste of how millions around world live. Carrying water-no plumbing-no power. [link]
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RT @pintsizegrafix: The world comes to Manhattan - add freezing temps to flooded misery in Staten Island and beyond - everyday life 4 world [link]
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The world comes to Manhattan - add freezing temps to flooded misery in Staten Island and beyond - everyday life 4 world [link]
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RT @EdwinaCramp: 4th fav #sandy reaction indifference & world comes to NYC [link] via @treehugger #WakeUpCall #ClimateChange
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RT @Deskimo: From NYC:We will live here, in these conditions, for a few days ... it is an entire life elsewhere. [link]
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From NYC:We will live here, in these conditions, for a few days ... it is an entire life elsewhere. [link]
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RT @JoshuaChavers: RT @TreeHugger: NYers get a taste of how millions around the world live. Carrying water, no plumbing, no power. [link]
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RT @CarolHink: In Power and Water Outages, the World Comes to Lower Manhattan : [link] via @treehugger #sandy
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RT @esavestheworld: What is extraordinary, headline-grabbing, in Manhattan is ordinary and overlooked elsewhere. [link] via @TreeHugger
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What is extraordinary, headline-grabbing, in Manhattan is ordinary and overlooked elsewhere. [link] via @TreeHugger
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In Power and Water Outages, the World Comes to Lower Manhattan : TreeHugger [link] via @TreeHugger #nyc #sandy #blackout
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"We will live here in these conditions for a few days.... Some people live it for the rest of their lives"#sandy #nyc [link]
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RT @ravivturner: A beautiful post of how #sandy has giving New Yorkers a taste of what it's like to live in many parts of the world [link]
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A beautiful post of how #sandy has giving New Yorkers a taste of what it's like to live in many parts of the world [link]
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RT @christackett: Post-Hurricane #Sandy, NYers get a taste of how millions around the world live. Carrying water, no plumbing, no power. [link]
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In Power and Water Outages, the World Comes to Lower Manhattan : TreeHugger [link] via @TreeHugger #sandy #nyc
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“@bcmerchant: after #sandy, lower Manhattanites are living like millions around the world do every day [link] reality check
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Think about life like this every day MT @TreeHugger: Post #Sandy, NYers get a taste of how millions around the world [link]
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after #sandy, lower Manhattanites are living like millions around the world do every day [link] reality check from...
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They better get used to it. “@TreeHugger: Post-#Sandy NYers taste how millions around world live. no plumbing no power [link]”
@christackett » 02 Nov '12, 3pm
Post-Hurricane #Sandy, NYers get a taste of how millions around the world live. Carrying water, no plumbing, no power. [link]
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RT @agreenbeauty: In Power and Water Outages, the World Comes to Lower Manhattan : TreeHugger [link] via @TreeHugger
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RT @JaymiHeimbuch: A little global perspective to the results of #sandy served up by @matmcdermott [link]
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A little global perspective to the results of #sandy served up by @matmcdermott [link]
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Point of view! In Power and Water Outages, the World Comes to Lower Manhattan [link] via @TreeHugger
@treehuggeruk » 02 Nov '12, 4am
RT @kellyrigg: Tks @matmcdermott 4 reminder. [link] Being w/out elect, plumbing etc is normal 4 shockingly high proportion of world's people
@kellyrigg » 02 Nov '12, 4am
Tks @matmcdermott 4 reminder. [link] Being w/out elect, plumbing etc is normal 4 shockingly high proportion of world's people
@patiswhereitsat » 02 Nov '12, 3am
THE GREAT DIVIDE BETWEEN THE HAVES & HAVE NOTS: Outages, the World Comes to Lower Manhattan : [link] via @TreeHugger
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RT @whitingdesign: Brilliant article by @matmcdermott: In Power and Water Outages, the World Comes to Lower Manhattan : TreeHugger [link]