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Exactly.

All of the cities listed in the story are small towns, the largest boasts of reducing their traffic signals from 18 to 2. Imagine trying to eliminate traffic signals and signs in a city like New York City, where there are over 11,000 signals, and almost 3,000 in Manhattan alone. If you've ever ridden in a cab at 5:00am, you have seen the chaos that ensues when there are no signals (since cabbies completely ignore all lights at that time). It's certainly not safer.

If we rely on courtesy to dictate our traffic patterns, we'll be victim to those who have no qualms with putting others lives and vehicles at risk. The U.S. has far too many people that fall into this category for the strategy to be effective.

All City agencies, as well as businesses and institutions, are required to recycle computer equipment, unless it is donated or resold for reuse.

The NYC Department of Sanitation has coordinated with private companies and nonprofit organizations to offer electronics recycling events to New York City residents.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycwasteless/html/recyclin g/electronicsrecycling.shtml

What about the building the concrete is in front of? Isn't the sign like a giant advertisement to come inside, should those be allowed? Should we only allow a certain typeface a certain size, a certain number of lights?

Yes, yes, and YES! In fact most cities have such ordinances. Outdoor advertising of the likes of Times Square is illegal almost everywhere else, barring maybe Las Vegas. You certainly can't do it in my hometown (San Francisco). All billboards have to be licensed by the municipality -- this is true even in New York. These are community standards that under all circumstances should be determined by the residents, not corporate interests.

Also, I don't much care if my kids see 10,000 ads on their walk home from school. They'll just learn to tune it out or they'll get used to the ad being in the same place, and it no longer becomes an ad it becomes a marker.

Suppose the ads were pornographic images? Would the kids "tune them out" then?

I really don't think you've thought this issue through.

I'll also mention that 4 of the 5 NYC boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx) have their electricity distribution almost entirely below ground.

Yet another reason for us to give Staten Island to New Jersey - our average'd go up 20%.

It'd make the city prettier, too.

Here's the link, oops.

The full text of the decision can be found on this page ... look for "Department of Education v. Choudhri, OATH Index No. 722/06 (Mar. 9, 2006)". Here is a direct link to the PDF.

Blame the user! Yes, that's one way of looking at it. Another perspective is that the product designers could have built the systems in a way so as not to encourage activities that distract the driver, or at least not to tempt the driver to fiddle with accessories on the road. Or--best option--hire aesthetes and HCI experts to design your mapping systems to be intuitive and predictive enough not to require the driver's full attention to operate. Some of the dash-mounted interactive mapping devices I've seen ought to be criminal, they're such a frustration to use.

Responsibility may lie ultimately with the end user, especially for having chosen such terribly-designed products. But many problems could be avoided if only automakers put some thought into how real human beings interact with their systems.

Me, I believe in capitalism. I pay other people to do the dirty work.

... With the support of an unprecedented coalition of city leaders that transcended political, religious and ethnic affiliations, Giuliani defeated Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger -- making him only the second Republican reelected as mayor since Fiorello LaGuardia.

.... To reduce crime, he implemented a "zero tolerance" approach, placing an emphasis on enforcing laws against nuisance crimes as well as serious offenses. Since 1993, the city has experienced an unprecedented 44 percent drop in overall crime and a 61 percent drop in murder, making New York the safest large city in America.

To stimulate the city's stagnated economy, Giuliani reduced the tax burden by eliminating the Commercial Rent Tax in most areas of the city, reducing the Hotel Occupancy Tax, and eliminating the Unincorporated Business Tax. As a result of these targeted tax cuts, the hotel and tourism industries are thriving, 180,000 private sector jobs have been created, and a national financial magazine named New York City the most improved American city in which to do business. Giuliani also cracked down on organized crime to lift the illegal tax the mob had exacted on certain New York City industries for generations. As a result, the Fulton Fish Market, the carting industry, and the city's main convention center have been liberated from organized crime, saving businesses and consumers hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

Faced with a $2.2 billion budget gap upon taking office, Giuliani lowered projected spending by $7.8 billion through a series of cost cutting measures and productivity improvements. He reduced the city's payroll by over 20,000 jobs without layoffs. He kept the rate of spending below the rate of inflation for the first time in New York City history and created a $500 million reserve fund.

In 1993, 1.1 million New Yorkers were receiving welfare. To bring an end to a philosophy that encouraged dependency on public assistance, Giuliani implemented the largest workfare program in the nation. Since his welfare reforms were enacted in March of 1995, 340,000 people have been moved off the rolls, saving $650 million annually in city, state and federal funds. To date, 175,000 people have completed the Work Experience Program, which provides welfare recipients with training to find permanent employment.

Loose a job is not funny. Lets send a message to this solitaire mayor!

You can't say that New York was completely unplanned.
The grid system of Manhattan was a deliberate attempt to avoid the crazy street layouts of Europe.

Central Park was created before the proper city extended that far north. http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1286521

Planning for New York's City Water Tunnel #3 started in 1954, construction began in the 1970s, and the current completion date is 2020.http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/news/3rdtunn el.html

and there are places like the Five Points that have been wiped out, unplanned districts can become slums.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points_(Ma nhattan)

Planned cities can become failures as well, http://imdb.com/title/tt0317248/
but you should moderate your opinion.

I just had one of those suckers go through the washing machine a while back. Still works.

I've lost count how many times my little 128 MB Dell has made the trip through the washing machine. It works fine. My 512 MB Lexar drive had to be replaced when I was troubleshooting someone else's computer and it stopped working. Lexar replaced it without any problems. Now, if we had that scale of a problem. Take my advice. Don't worry, don't keep anything on you except your driver's license. You'll be taken care by the red cross and the feds will have declared marshal law and everyone in the nation will be issued biometric ID cards anyway. If your rich, you should have a vacation home in an out of the way local that isn't on anyone's hit list. If you aren't rich, the best thing to do is try not to live in any major high profile cities or political points. I'd think Mt. RushMore http://www.nps.gov/moru/ and The Statue of Liberty http://www.nps.gov/stli/ would be better targets than anything else though.

Goal isn't to kill people. It is to creat mass choas, panic and terror. I'd target New York City's Water Supply System http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/watersup.html rather than the city itself. The panic and terror that would create would be much more than if NYC was wiped off the face of the map.

Bad use of units here... plus a misunderestimation of the kwh household monthly usage. Electric water heaters are typically 3-6 kw, microwave ovens are 2-3 kw, ovens, heaters, lights, televisions, computers, washing machines, pretty soon you are reaching 20kw in peak usage in the evening. Average hourly usage is about 5 kw. Times 8760 hours/yr, or 43,800 kwh/houshold/yr. Times 8 million people, divided by 3 as the avg household size, you've got 118,000,000,000,000 watt-hours in yearly consumption. However, a lightning strike does not last an hour. Lets say a second at most, if not less. With 3600 seconds per hour, your number goes up to about 40,000,000,000,000,000, or 40 petawatts as the annual NYC electric demand compressed into one second of electrical discharge. According to NYC itself (http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/energy_task_force. pdf), its peak demand was over 11 gigawatts at one time in 2003. Public facility consumption was 1.1 gigawatts and 5,182,400 MWH. If we scale public MWH consumption to the rest of the city, its annual watt hour consumption is 51,824,000,000,000 or 51 terawatt hours, or just over twice what I estimated, but both are just guesses. Now lets see what the real numbers are for lightning: ""An individual bolt can pack several hundred million volts at 10,000 amperes, one trillion watts, briefly burning up more electrical power than is being used in the entire United States. Monsters of one billion volts and over 100,000 amperes are not unknown." - Mallette, Vincent. "Everything You Always Wanted To Know about Lightning -- But Were Too Shocked to Ask (yeah, we know!)"a.k.a. Algorithm, Inc. Lightning Page (lightning is your friend). So, if we assume the biggest examples, to fit the Big Apple, a billion volts (this seems a bit too Saganesque for me, my own experience has lightning in the 20-200 million volt range) times 100kA comes out to 100 trillion watts. However, since lightning only lasts momentarily (again), we divide that by 3600 to get that number adjusted to watt hours (assuming a lightning's discharge lasts for one second). This gives us less than three million watt hours, or less than 30,000 kwh (versus 50-100 terawatt hours for NYC annual demand). Yo, lightning is pathetic, chump.

You can contact (and search) DoITT starting at their Website. The Tech Committee that oversees them mentioned the VoIP replacement job to which I referred in their 2003 hearing report (footnote on page 8). It's also mentioned in page 6 of Vermont's 2005 Telecommunications Plan, which quotes an article in the _Homeland Defense Journal_ July 2003 p. 37). Believe it or not, you might be able to get a followup call from a knowledgeable DoITT person by calling 311 inside NYC (DoITT's "nonemergency 911"), or +1(212)NEW-YORK anywhere. If you can't get DoITT to prioritize responding to you, you could try contacting the Technology in Government committee, which oversees DoITT and sometimes has info like this prepackaged - especially if you're an NYC resident/worker or another municipal government.

You can contact (and search) DoITT starting at their Website. The Tech Committee that oversees them mentioned the VoIP replacement job to which I referred in their 2003 hearing report (footnote on page 8). It's also mentioned in page 6 of Vermont's 2005 Telecommunications Plan, which quotes an article in the _Homeland Defense Journal_ July 2003 p. 37). Believe it or not, you might be able to get a followup call from a knowledgeable DoITT person by calling 311 inside NYC (DoITT's "nonemergency 911"), or +1(212)NEW-YORK anywhere. If you can't get DoITT to prioritize responding to you, you could try contacting the Technology in Government committee, which oversees DoITT and sometimes has info like this prepackaged - especially if you're an NYC resident/worker or another municipal government.

As someone who maintains the www.nyc.gov/taxi site let me point out that we have average prices for medallions (pdf, updated monthly) posted here.

Also, TLC plans to sell up to 300 additional taxicab medallions at auction this year (also follow above link to learn about the tins :)

As someone who maintains the www.nyc.gov/taxi site let me point out that we have average prices for medallions (pdf, updated monthly) posted here.

Also, TLC plans to sell up to 300 additional taxicab medallions at auction this year (also follow above link to learn about the tins :)

According to the census bureau, it's 19,190,115 people.

According to the NYC dept of city planning the Census Bureau believes that there were in 8,104,079 people in the five boroughs of NYC as of July 2004.

How do you switch on the bicycle path that the slashdot article mentioned? Where is it getting the bike path routes? Is it like what the NYC has which is really great? Imagine you could bike from one side of the continent to the other without any problems...

The NYPD uses a system very much like this, called COMPSTAT.

More about the history of the program here (clicky)

Here's an excerpt from the NYPD website:
"Among the Command and Control Center's high-tech capabilities is its computerized 'pin mapping' which displays crime, arrest and quality of life data in a host of visual formats including comparative charts, graphs and tables. Through the use of MAPINFO software and other computer technology, for example, the CompStat database can be accessed and a precinct map depicting virtually any combination of crime and/or arrest locations, crime 'hot spots' and other relevant information can be instantly projected on the Center's large video projection screens."

What would you say if a government agency unilaterally required that all members of the automotive infrastructure post their name, address and telephone number in big bold letters on all their vehicles?

I like the "new Hubble" idea. If you keep servicing the current Hubble, they'd have to deal with the old technology already there, and surely layer over some of it. I think a new one, if it indeed costs less, would have less of the "onion" effect Hubble will soon have with this and later repairs, and will have much more modern gadgets and transmitters.

(Side note: It's the Johns Hopkins News-Letter. I don't care much for that, but a satellite-TV-guy-turned-mayor might login to Slashdot and complain about it. Or troll the whole site in grief and desperation by promoting a new Manhattan stadium.)

Exactly what mistakes has Microsoft made then? They are the biggest, most successful computer company on the face of the planet. The antitrust settlement was no more than a slap on the wrist; profits continue to climb, and show no signs of doing otherwise.

Indeed. The big reason why Windows/IE/WMP/Microsoft InsertAnyWordHere is popular is because they are in so many school PC's, especially here. The schools consider it a necessary knowledge.

Combined with Gates' donations to schools and Justice Dept. folks who believe "hiding a shortcut to IE" == "removing IE", that will help Windows take its shoes off and stay a while.

The body is a very, very complex machine that, for evolutionary reasons, is programmed to cease functioning after reproduction is not possible. This pesky built-in evolutionary trait (death) can be overcome by science.

It won't happen all at once, though. Treatments will extend the average lifespan a few years at a time, as has been happining since the advent of modern medicine. Its a game of cat and mouse.

In New York city, over the last 10 years, the average lifespan for males has increased 6.8 years. This means that, for those of us under 30, the average lifespan will have increased from 74 to 101 in the 40 intervening years, assuming the trend holds. Perhaps we are not so far from a practical kind of immortality.

Then again, if you're over 80 your chances of being demented are better than 50%, so it may not be much of an immortal life.

Government should in no way be involved where private enterprise can provide the same service

Please!

Although they are often unfair and inefficient, governments can and do provide some vital services when the private sector is unwilling or unable to do so. During the 30's, millions of people got power and paved roads thanks to the Tennessee Valley Authority and the WPA. Perfect programs? Certainly not, but they filled a need that wasn't being met by private companies.

Most communities are willing to wait for private broadband roll-out, but for those who aren't willing to live on the cabletelco timetable, the threat of municiple broadband was a big stick to spur private companies into action. This law removes that incentive to action.

This would be comparable to the big power companies getting laws passed during the middle of the 20th century outlawing the many rural power co-ops that sprung up to provide service to people who lived too far away from cities to get get electricity otherwise.

If you were relocating a tech company to a small town, would you choose a city that only has relatively slow commercial broadband, or would you choose a city that has a fiber optic network that you, as a local corporate citizen, could have some influence over?

He attended... New York University Law School in Manhattan, graduating magna cum laude in 1968. In 1981, Giuliani was named Associate Attorney General, the third highest position in the Department of Justice. As Associate Attorney General, Giuliani supervised all of the US Attorney Offices' Federal law enforcement agencies, the Bureau of Corrections, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the US Marshals.

If I'd lost my camera, the first place I would look would be the lost&found, which in this case is Taxi and Limousine Commission . If this story wasn't posted on slashdot and if I were that person, I wouldn't know smo has my property, because blogs aren't the place where lost&found is posted.

Cheers.

I've never seen anyone arrested for stapling campaign posters to utility poles and those damn things last forever.

Are plans for the chalk writer open source?

Bikes Against Bush has been /.ed, how about the NYPD? You can send a message to Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly here.

I've never seen anyone arrested for stapling campaign posters to utility poles and those damn things last forever.

Are plans for the chalk writer open source?

Bikes Against Bush has been /.ed, how about the NYPD? You can send a message to Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly here.

When the World Trade Center, and surrounding buildings including Verizon's "7 World Trade", collapsed after the 2001 planebombings, NYC's phone system collapsed with it. Essential to managing the disaster, the NYC government's 70,000 desktop phones needed to come back ASAP. 2 days later, over 50,000 of those phones had been switched by the City's IT department, DoITT to VoIP. Shortly afterwards, that department produced a study that showed that the City's annual Verizon bill is over $100M: that's almost $1500 per phone, every year. After the 2003 blackout, and then a 1-hour Spring 2004 911 emergency switchboard outage that cost someone their life, DoITT has announced they're putting that fat Verizon contract out to bid. Despite any law requiring that, or even any precedent in the century of Verizon (by whatever name) operation of New York City's phones. NYC is currently receiving proposals for voice/data networking and moblie wireless networking projects, worth billions of dollars. The City Council (legislature) Technology in Government Committee has held public hearings on public wireless spectrum issues to ensure emergency services have access, and emergency 911 calls over VoIP service, to ensure that the move from circuit to packet switched phone calls preserves New Yorkers' service expectations. With 10-15 million people here every day, and everyone talking around the world, NYC is leading the way in planning for the transformation of VoIP. We're glad to have California along for the ride :).

When the World Trade Center, and surrounding buildings including Verizon's "7 World Trade", collapsed after the 2001 planebombings, NYC's phone system collapsed with it. Essential to managing the disaster, the NYC government's 70,000 desktop phones needed to come back ASAP. 2 days later, over 50,000 of those phones had been switched by the City's IT department, DoITT to VoIP. Shortly afterwards, that department produced a study that showed that the City's annual Verizon bill is over $100M: that's almost $1500 per phone, every year. After the 2003 blackout, and then a 1-hour Spring 2004 911 emergency switchboard outage that cost someone their life, DoITT has announced they're putting that fat Verizon contract out to bid. Despite any law requiring that, or even any precedent in the century of Verizon (by whatever name) operation of New York City's phones. NYC is currently receiving proposals for voice/data networking and moblie wireless networking projects, worth billions of dollars. The City Council (legislature) Technology in Government Committee has held public hearings on public wireless spectrum issues to ensure emergency services have access, and emergency 911 calls over VoIP service, to ensure that the move from circuit to packet switched phone calls preserves New Yorkers' service expectations. With 10-15 million people here every day, and everyone talking around the world, NYC is leading the way in planning for the transformation of VoIP. We're glad to have California along for the ride :).

When the World Trade Center, and surrounding buildings including Verizon's "7 World Trade", collapsed after the 2001 planebombings, NYC's phone system collapsed with it. Essential to managing the disaster, the NYC government's 70,000 desktop phones needed to come back ASAP. 2 days later, over 50,000 of those phones had been switched by the City's IT department, DoITT to VoIP. Shortly afterwards, that department produced a study that showed that the City's annual Verizon bill is over $100M: that's almost $1500 per phone, every year. After the 2003 blackout, and then a 1-hour Spring 2004 911 emergency switchboard outage that cost someone their life, DoITT has announced they're putting that fat Verizon contract out to bid. Despite any law requiring that, or even any precedent in the century of Verizon (by whatever name) operation of New York City's phones. NYC is currently receiving proposals for voice/data networking and moblie wireless networking projects, worth billions of dollars. The City Council (legislature) Technology in Government Committee has held public hearings on public wireless spectrum issues to ensure emergency services have access, and emergency 911 calls over VoIP service, to ensure that the move from circuit to packet switched phone calls preserves New Yorkers' service expectations. With 10-15 million people here every day, and everyone talking around the world, NYC is leading the way in planning for the transformation of VoIP. We're glad to have California along for the ride :).

FreeBSD is a "stealthy" open source project in the same way the Brooklyn Bridge is a "stealthy" public works project:

It's been there forever, doing its job, fully appreciated only by an informed minority.

PS: Neither are for sale. :-)

The NYC Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) last year began tracking NYC 'dead spots' for all major carriers in the city. COmplaints can be made on the web or by dialing 311. Initial results are available at nyc.gov.

Also you should remember that the city of London is over twice as big as New York, yes not everything American is the biggest. In the year 2002 there was a total of 587 murders in NY city while in 2000 there was only 517 in the whole of England and Wales. Also I would imagine that there are more polce officers killed in an average year in New York than has been killed in the last ten years in the UK, excluding NI for obvious reasons. What does this show us? That having a load of criminals, civilians and police running around with guns does not make for a safer society.

I for one would rather be mugged than murdered.

Ah, the same old give a man a fish conundrum. If you had limited resources, would you invest them in building a boat, or buying fish from he market?
By developing high tech, India is trying to keep all its good engineers to go to the good old USA. See it is those engineers/scientists from all the other countries immigrating into US which have kept it rich. So, coming back to the fish analogy, India has two choices
a) Send the boat builders(engineers/scientists) to US, and get aids money
b) keep some of the boat builders, and try to build a boat so that you don't need aid money anymore.
Anyway, India at this is the world's 4th largest economy, and is one of the world's fastest growing economy, and they did not reach there by just giving free food to the poor, but y investing in IITs.
Also, frankly USA with its 12% poor (compared to 26% in India), and huge number of homeless(link1 link2 people should provide enough excuses for you to fight the senators to stop investing in NASA etc. for producing high-tech.

NYC had to dumb down the tests, though, to avoid charges of racial discrimination. Now they're pass/fail, and those who pass are selected in sequence. They used to be truly competitive, resulting in overqualified low-level people.

Also in that set was the 1956 test for U.S. State Department Foreign Service Officer. "Which of the following phrases best expresses the idea that the United States supports the government with which you are dealing but will not support them militarily".

Now obviously keeping some secrets is a matter of national security - like not tipping your hand to potential enemies about advanced military capabilities - but trying to bury information about building bombs, or potato guns, or the locations of your state's water resevoirs, wouldn't be.

Ignorance is Strength ~= "National Security"
Freedom is Slavery ~= Removing civil liberties in the name of safety until you've got a police a state.
War is Peace ~= The "War On Terrorism" which is "a war that is not going to have any end for the foreseeable future."--G.W.Bush

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Well if it makes you feel any better, I think NYC is the only city in America that has a second level domain name under .gov for itself... (ie the official NYC gov web site is nyc.gov).

So yea.. and our MTA (and i'm sure there are a ton of organizations called MTAs) is just mta.info :)

Most people tend to pick somewhere like Panama for their flags of convenience. Liberia's popular too, as are a variety of island states.

Putting it out with the trash continues to be the recommended solution, unfortunately.

When *I* was in school I got WAY to many of those fluorescent orange pieces of paper tucked under the windshield wipers of my car; I'd have loved to see them try to go completely paperless!

What is even more interesting is that Time Square is hardly all of New York City and you'd be suprised how quiet things are on an early Sunday morning in the summer. Very few people live in Times Square (unless they occupy a box). Either way, most residents are in the Hamptons, the Jersey Shore, or Connecticut and tourists are easily shepherded out of the way.

They actually do a ton of filming in the city. There is a city agency dedicated to it - Mayor's office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting.

You have fifty pounds of Russian plutonium dust but just can't decide what to do with it? Just go to The Deleware Aquaduct and see a very useful map, complete with bulls-eye circles around NYC! Just sprinkle that dust along those fat blue lines, and in no time at all...

Doesn't that page just seem tailor-made for Al-Qaida planning sessions?

The nice thing about this capital project, is it may be the first major capital project that is on schedule. Compared to the Big Dig in Boston, the NYC water project is remarkably on schedule, and is even arguably ahead of schedule.

In fact, 13 miles of the third tunnel is ALREADY activated and allows a little of the stress of tunnels 1 and 2 to be relieved.

I can't even imagine what the city will do when this project will be done... they'll be a serious amount of money freed up for more capital projects. Perhaps sinking the west side highway from canal to the brooklyn/battery tunnel and creating another central park-type area? The idea's been batted around since the 80s. Hmm... Gotta say, nothing seems to keep NYC down.

In order to manage a problem like this one, one needs to communicate effectively between all the different stakeholders that are interested in the problem. To this end, NYC has a group just for the purpose. They are called The City of New York Emergency Mapping Center. They produced the parent of all these status maps which is located here.

There wasn't a 'big' map before now because the assessments (as noted elsewhere in these postings) take considerable skill & time. It will not be until the surveyers and the structural engineers get together and measure each building against known locations that we'll really know what will become of some of these buildings. The risks to be still standing buildings are by no means over yet. No one knows the damage that has been done below goround -- nor will we for weeks to come. There are many stories about earthquake damaged buildings that looked fine but had failed foundations in the literature -- those kinds of problems will have to be found by non /.ers who have gone to school for a zillion years. Just because you're in a building and it appears to be working 'ok' doesn't mean that it will ultimately not be raised because its foundation is unsafe.

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Now for the creeper part of this posting. Have a look at New York City Mayor's Office of Emergency Management. It is amazing that the rescue and recovery is going so smoothly when the people charged with the problem are office-less.

And finally to the scum below that said "rescuers took to long". They've hurt post-collapse several hundred rescuers already with many hundred if not thousands more to be hurt. The site is extremely dangerous in terms of both individual hazards like sharp objects and biohazard as well as bigger hazards like debris piles collapsing, fires or even some of the still standing frames collapsing. They are making a trade-off between danger and speed and their families will argue they're already going too fast. To you (the scum) I say go enlist so you can be canon fodder someplace where we won't miss your /. postings.

-- Multics

That 3D picture is just a fancier version of the
official map from the New York City Emergency Mapping Center.

At the Pentagon, Defense officials said 126 persons are missing. This is far lower than previous estimates. ("The Army is missing 21 military, 47 civilian, and six contractor personnel. Navy officials report they are missing 33 sailors and nine civilians. Other defense agencies reported a total of 10 persons still unaccounted for as well.")

• All bridges and tunnels are open except the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel.
• Most subways are running, but stations below 14th St. are being skipped.
• Long Island and Metro North rail service is running.
• Manhattan below 14th St. is still closed to the public. Power is out due to damage to two substations near the World Trade Center. Con Edison is bringing in replacement equipment.
• Schools reopen Thursday.

You can find a listing here and good old MapQuest here.

My boyfriend and I are going to Goveurnor's on the Lower East Side. You can also call 800.933.BLOOD (800.933.2566) for locations, but good luck getting through.

Peace, everyone.