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New York Area Services
- Water New York City tap water is safe to drink.
- Buses Bus service will run on a near normal schedule. Expect delays and crowding.
- Subways 80 percent of service is restored. More trains will come online Saturday. (Updated map: PDF)
- Taxis Taxis allowed to pick up multiple passengers at multiple points. Livery cars can be hailed.
- Food and Water New York City has provided a list of emergency food and water distribution sites.
- Amtrak Modified service to and from New York City and points south has resumed.
- Long Island Rail Road Limited hourly service resumed on some lines. (Map: PDF)
- Metro-North Limited service. Regular service on the Hudson, Harlem and New Haven lines returns Saturday.
- NJ Transit Rail Limited service returned Friday. River Line light rail service resumed Wednesday.
- PATH No service until further notice.
- Bridges Into Manhattan All bridges into Manhattan are now open.
- Brooklyn Battery Tunnel Closed.
- Holland Tunnel Open for buses.
- Lincoln Tunnel Open.
- Queens Midtown Tunnel Closed.
- Rockaways Bridges The Cross Bay Bridge and the Marine Parkway Bridge are mostly open.
- J.F.K. Open for limited service. Check with airlines. AirTrain has resumed limited service.
- La Guardia Open with limited service. Check with airlines.
- Newark-Liberty Open for limited service. Check with airlines. AirTrain has resumed service.
- Connecticut Buses Regular local and express bus service has resumed.
- East River Ferries Normal weekend schedule begins Saturday; normal weekday schedule on Monday.
- Hudson River Ferries Near normal service returns Monday.
- Long Island Buses Limited service resumed Wednesday in Nassau County; Near normal service in Suffolk County until 6 p.m. Saturday.
- N.J. Transit Buses Most bus and Access Link service resumed full service on Thursday. Access to and from Hoboken has been restored.
- Roosevelt Island Tram Service has resumed.
- Staten Island Ferry Service resumed on Friday.
- Westchester Buses Bee-Line and Paratransit buses resumed service Wednesday, operating with detours.
- City Parks and Playgrounds Many facilities reopened Saturday. A list of areas that remain closed is on the parks department Web site.
- Federal Courts The U.S. District Court in Manhattan is closed through at least Friday.
- N.Y. State Courts Bronx, Queens: open. Brooklyn: open except Red Hook. Manhattan: most closed. Staten Island: some open.
- N.Y.C. Schools Classes will resume on Monday.
- New York Public Library The New York Public Library opened 65 branches.
- Zoos and Aquariums Prospect Park Zoo: Open. Bronx Zoo: Opens Saturday. Queens Zoo: Open. Central Park Zoo: Closed. New York Aquarium: Closed indefinitely.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, facing criticism that he was favoring marathon runners arriving from around the world over people in devastated neighborhoods, reversed himself and canceled the New York City Marathon.
The move was historic — the marathon has taken place every year since 1970, including the race in 2001 held two months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and was projected to bring in $340 million.
For days, the mayor, who is often reluctant to abandon a position of his, insisted on going ahead with the race, saying it would signal that the city was back to normal.
He changed his mind as opposition became nearly unanimous. Critics said that it would be in poor taste to hold a foot race through the five boroughs while so many people in the area were still dealing with damage from the hurricane, and that city services should focus on storm relief, not the marathon. A petition from some marathoners called on other runners to skip the race and do volunteer work in hard-hit areas.
But the mayor liked the parallel to Sept. 11 and saw the marathon as a symbol of the city’s comeback. He talked to former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani on Friday morning; Mr. Giuliani said to stick with his original plan.
Within the mayor’s inner circle, though, there were concerns. Some advisers worried that the criticism could steal the focus from Mr. Bloomberg’s well-received performance during and after the storm, and could damage his legacy in the way that the city’s botched response to a blizzard had done in 2010.
Behind the scenes, there were also concerns about what the world would see: images of runners so close to neighborhoods that had been battered by the storm, at a time when gasoline remained in short supply and mass transit was still not fully functioning.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and Deputy Mayors Howard Wolfson and Patricia E. Harris all argued for calling off the event.
The mayor, virtually alone in saying the race should go on, finally relented and canceled it after a conversation with Mary Wittenberg, the marathon director, late Friday. “This isn’t the year or the time to run it,” she said.
Patience also wore thin in other parts of the New York area amid lines that were once again painfully long — lines for free meals, lines for buses to take people where crippled subways could not, lines for gasoline that stretched 30 blocks in Brooklyn.
Hand-lettered signs in hard-hit areas struck a plaintive note: “FEMA please help us,” read one in Broad Channel, Queens. In Hoboken, N.J., one was addressed to Gov. Chris Christie: “Gov. Chris — where is the help $$$$”
Ethel Liebeskind of Merrick, N.Y., echoed that idea as she stood in the storm-tossed ruins of the house she had lived in for 26 years. “This is as bad as Katrina,” she said, “and they got global attention. The South Shore of Long Island should be treated the same way. Don’t forget us on the South Shore of Long Island. We need help.”
There was more grim news on Staten Island, where rescuers pulled two bodies from another house in the Midland Beach neighborhood, about two miles from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Neighbors who had been hauling their ruined furniture and trash to the street watched as two body bags were taken out of a house on Olympia Boulevard.
The two victims were not immediately identified. They brought to 41 the official count of people who died as rampaging wind drove a wall of water into the city on Monday night.
On Staten Island, which even in good times is often referred to as the city’s forgotten borough, desperation and anger were especially intense.
David Sylvester, 50, returned to his house in Midland Beach — he had left it after the mayor issued evacuation orders for low-lying areas, and it burned down when a power line shorted out during the storm — and criticized the government and relief agencies for not arriving fast enough.
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