by Jen G Good morning, Greenpoint! Over a year ago when I wrote my first post, I did not imagine how important this website would be in critical times – such as Hurricane Sandy proved to be for New York City.
As a local website, we received an unprecedented amount of online traffic from Greenpointers seeking information about conditions here. We are happy to have been there and grateful that much of the information reported and all the…
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With respect to the evacuation orders, there also needs to be some consideration of the Maps themselves.
The west side of McGuinness was Zone B, but down 305 would have experienced pretty bad flooding were it not for the efforts of a number of tenants.