New York limps toward Election Day
Briefing: Cuomo at a Wal-Mart and Pepsi donation announcement. Cuomo's flickr stream
4:11 pm Nov. 5, 2012
Hurricane Sandy
"Bloomberg was simply unprepared for the impact of climate change on his own city—despite his credit-taking for righting New York after 9/11." [Harry Siegel]
Now, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a person in charge of finding housing for residents displaced by the hurricane. [CBS]
Only three out of 70 teachers at P.S. 100 in Brighton Beach missed work today. [Beth Fertig]
Twenty-three schools in Brooklyn remained closed. [Ned Berke]
More about Rockaway residents yelling at Bloomberg. [John Del Signore]
Governor Andrew Cuomo denounced a rabbi who said the hurricane was a form of "divine justice." [The Jewish Daily Forward]
Cuomo said 100,000 families could be displaced for a year, because of the storm. [Joseph Spector]
Republican Senate candidate Wendy Long suggested housing displaced residents on cruise ships. [Liz Benjamin]
Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny predicts 40,000 voters in his district will be disenfranchised because the new polling site is "40 blocks away." [Nick Powell]
Gun control critics argue the way to stop post-hurricane looting is with guns. [Casey Seiler]
The New York City marathon would have kept the media focused on the hurricane devastation in New York. [Chris Jones]
Albany
The Manhattan borough president said New Jersey's plan letting hurricane victims vote by absentee ballot is far better than New York's. [Scott Stringer]
The Democratic State Senate candidate in Brooklyn who has a Republican campaign manager and who endorsed Mitt Romney for president is "a lock" to caucus with Republicans if he wins his race. [Ken Lovett]
A New York City Democratic commissioner at the Board of Elections said he was unaware of complaints Republican voters had about the new polling site in Rockaway. [Andrew Hawkins]
