![]() On Sunday, Governor Hochul signed a major disaster declaration for New York State lining up federal reimbursement, and estimated at the signing that the storm had caused more than $50 million in damage and impacted some 1,200 homes.Īs New York and surrounding areas continue to evaluate the destruction wrought by Hurricane Ida, the death toll in the region keeps rising. Hochul: Ida caused at least $50 million in damage in New York On Monday, he made federal aid available to the counties of Bronx, Queens, Kings, Richmond, and Westchester in New York, and the counties of Bergen, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Passaic, and Somerset in New Jersey.Īffected New Yorkers needing assistance should click here those in New Jersey should click here. The president is scheduled to visit the north-central Jersey town of Manville as well as Queens in New York City on Tuesday to see the damage caused by the storm and speak with residents and officials. Below are updates from the aftermath of the storm.īiden approved federal aid for New York and New Jersey he’ll visit both states on Tuesday President Biden has approved federal major disaster declarations for affected areas of New York and New Jersey. Ida was the worst natural disaster to strike the area since 2012’s Superstorm Sandy. At least 45 were killed in New York and New Jersey, and a total of at least 52 across the Northeast. The New York City metropolitan area was struck by sudden disaster on Wednesday night as the remnants of Hurricane Ida flooded subways, roads, and homes. ![]() And we should be able to say that if the entire subway system is shut down, if there is a ban on all travel, and if the city’s streets are quite literally underwater, we aren’t risking workers’ safety unnecessarily so that you can get a sandwich or whatever delivered for dinner.Eddie, an immigrant from Mexico, walks through his flooded basement level apartment on Friday in a Queens neighborhood that saw massive flooding and numerous deaths following the heavy wind and rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida which struck overnight Wednesday. Instead, food delivery simply should not be an option workers should be granted enough of a safety net so that they can stay safe without missing a night of wages. It is, of course, not enough to say “tip generously,” or “don’t order food at a time when the people delivering it will have to risk their actual lives to get to your home,” because as we’ve seen throughout this pandemic - and these past ten days’ two major storms - putting workers’ lives at risk is not enough to deter everyone. As the New York Times reported this summer, “Though the minimum wage in New York City is $15 an hour, many residents who work for app-based services like Uber Eats, DoorDash and Lyft earn less than half that and cannot pay rent and other expenses, according to surveys of gig workers in the city.” While there have been efforts to organize, and to improve working conditions, last night is the clearest illustration yet that nothing has really improved at all. Even as people worked through the surges of citywide COVID infection, many were not fairly compensated. The video and photos are jarring, and the past 19 months have laid bare how uniquely vulnerable gig workers in general, and food-delivery workers specifically, are. Reactions to the above tweet ranged from “Tip generously tonight!” to “DON’T ORDER FOOD TONIGHT!” to “Whoever ordered food needs to be in The Hague.” And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez offered a measured, “Please do not be the person who orders delivery during a flash flood that the NWS has deemed a dangerous and life-threatening situation … If it’s too dangerous for you, it’s too dangerous for them.” Some questioned whether this person was actually a delivery worker - all signs indicate he was - other examples of food-deliverers out in the storm were simple to find, even after 10 p.m., while New York City was experiencing the worst of the rainfall. was, by a wide margin, the wettest hour ever in Central Park water submerged cars in all five boroughs and at least eight New Yorkers tragically lost their lives in the storm.Īnd who was out in this history-setting catastrophic storm? The workers tasked with delivering food to people who were safe and dry inside their homes.Ī little after ten last night, a video appeared on Twitter purporting to show a food-delivery worker wading through waist-high floodwater, walking his bike while holding a white plastic delivery bag. ![]() A tidal wave of sewage inundated the subway manhole covers rattled like it was the apocalypse the 60 minutes between 8:50 p.m. ![]() ![]() A delivery worker in the Bronx navigates last night’s floodwaters. ![]()
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