The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: Information Blackout In Lower Manhattan Ends As Lights, Internet Return

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Information Blackout In Lower Manhattan Ends As Lights, Internet Return Nov 3rd 2012, 21:00 "Do you know what happened to the Coney Island Museum?" Olivia Cieri spent most of the work week after Hurricane Sandy volunteering at ABC No Rio, an artists' collective on Rivington Street in Manhattan. The team gave out free food and worked with Time's Up New York to provide bicycle generators for charging cellphones. But Cieri hadn't been able to leave downtown for the better part of the week, and by Friday she really wanted to know what was going on inside the Coney Island Museum -- where she used to work. No one could tell her, though. Even with bicycle generators to charge phones, people in downtown Manhattan did not have working internet through Friday, Nov. 2, when power finally started to return to the grids there. The massive New York City power outage caused by Hurricane Sandy had left Cieri among the thousands of New Yorkers without connection to the outside world, unable to check on relatives or secure information unless they walked or took a cab uptown, where the city had power. Read More... More on Hurricane Sandy 2012

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