Despair sets in for some Coney Island residents as living conditions deteriorate rapidly

NY Daily News ^ | 11/1/12 | MATTHEW LYSIAK

[jimbo123]

‘We are Katrina’ says one desperate resident. ‘Everyone cares about Manhattan. No one is looking out for us.’

At a 12-unit apartment building at West 23rd near Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island, several tenants are huddled together in one room where human waste is spilling out of the toilet. They need help, and are at a loss explaining why assistance is getting to them faster.

"We have no food or water. Why isn't anyone helping us," asked tenant Aeising Cancel.

"We are scavenging for food like animals," said another tenant Jeffery Francis. "We are in a crisis and no one will help us. Look at us. We are misery. Everyone cares about Manhattan. No one is looking out for us. Nothing. We are Katrina."

At an apartment building at 3024 W 23rd the power is still out and residents are out of food.

"The food is gone. We are scrapping for food. One person found a sandwich and we split it four ways," said resident 58-year-old Albert Miller

[Marcella]

“Handy storage container when not needed, takes little space, use a trash bag for a liner and a couple pounds of cat litter as absorbent = easy, no mess disposal.”

I recommend Arm & Hammer Cat Litter as it helps eliminate odor.

Don't mix urine and solid waste as that makes for more odor. Have a “toilet” for each. Add a tiny amount of Pine Sol to the urine to prevent urine odor and the Arm & Hammer cat litter to cover solid waste each time that potty is used.

[GlockThe Vote]

I’m sitting in the dark w a bottle of wine, radio, flashlight, and the remaining battery life in my phone on free republic and your post made me spit it out. Lol!!!!!! Thank for the laugh!!!

[GlockThe Vote]

Do you think I am a lib trying to dictate how you live? I’m sitting in the dark w a radio flashlight taking cold showers cooking on a Coleman grill and still will swim through sewage to vote for Rome y next week. Am I the type deserving this?

[Old Sarge]

I'd like to join Commander Riker in applauding your most excellent post:

[GlockThe Vote]

Bingo. The real New Yorkers live in the boroughs.

[pops88]

“Do you think I am a lib trying to dictate how you live? I’m sitting in the dark w a radio flashlight taking cold showers cooking on a Coleman grill and still will swim through sewage to vote for Rome y next week. Am I the type deserving this?”

I lived through the 5 week Auckland, New Zealand, black out in 1998 that occurred just before a scheduled gay pride parade. As a very committed Christian, I certainly didn’t deserve it. God puts us where He puts us. It’s multiple tests- do we trust Him? Do people criticize us for being where we are and our circumstances? I certainly didn’t support the gay pride parade, but I was where God put me. I had to trust God that He’d take care of me, make the best of it, and be a light in literal darkness. My prayers are with you.

[cajungirl]

Oi have been thru so many hirricanes. We prepare, after the storm passes the outdoor propane fueled big pots fire up and the best gumbo is made from what is in the freezer. That is how people got their power up fast after Gistav, we were out for over a week but those with gumbo FED THE UTILITY WORKERS IN EXCHANGE FOR POWER LINE HOOK UPS.

Down here, everybody sort of chips in, helps and takes pride in veing up for it.

If one is in a place where it doesnt happen, I imagine it is awful.

And we have woods to go poop in, the toilet thing would freak me out!

[bgill]

"The food is gone. We are scrapping for food. One person found a sandwich and we split it four ways," said resident 58-year-old Albert Miller

Oh, good grief!!! If instead of a sandwich they had found a brain to split four ways then they'd be smart enough to figure out how to get up off their posteriors and do something productive. No, the human waste isn't coming out of the toilet but is scratching it's head looking into the toilet.

[Kartographer]

Did you see this? In darkened neighborhoods, people walked around with miner's lamps on their foreheads and bicycle lights clipped to shoulder bags and, in at least one case, to a dog's collar. A Manhattan handyman opened a fire hydrant so people could collect water to flush toilets. "You can clearly tell at the office, or even walking down the street, who has power and who doesn't," said Jordan Spiro, who lives in the blackout zone. "New Yorkers may not be known as the friendliest bunch, but take away their ability to shower and communicate and you'll see how disgruntled they can get." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2953537/posts ;-)

[bgill]

These events tell me when the SHTF I won't have to work very hard to stay ahead of the 47%.

That's exactly what I concluded. All those hoards of zombies coming at us from the cities? Ha! Ain't gonna happen. They can't even make it out of their apartments.

[bgill]

I bet taking the seat off your toilet would work if you really needed a seat. Squatting or aiming would work in most cases.

[tomkat]

I’ll make note of that, thanks .. sorry, have been lost in youtube .. lol

[tomkat]

Good point .. in a pinch, for a pinch .. LOL

[roadcat]

I bet taking the seat off your toilet would work if you really needed a seat.

I found a Youtube video where the guy mounts the toilet seat with the hinge pieces up against the rim of a bucket, then drills a few holes from the top side and screws down into wood blocks underneath to fasten the seat securely. The seat can then be popped off to dump the bucket. Crude, but it'll work (as long as you can drill holes).

[The Sons of Liberty]

Despair sets in for some Coney Island residents as living conditions deteriorate rapidly

Meanwhile, Barry Benghazi after his photo op and pretending to give a damn, is off to Vegas for fundraising and campaigning! - sound familiar?

[proxy_user]

I have escaped from lower Manhattan, I know what I’m talking about. If you’re in one of those buildings and you have no light, your bathroom is completely dark and you can’t even see your toilet. You may have filled your bathtub with water and laid in flashlights, but now the water is used up, the food is eaten, and the flashlights are dead, and it’s getting cold.

I am a reasonably fit 59-year-old, but after 36 hours I was in trouble. My legs and knees started to numb up from just sitting around, and there was only 11 hours of daylight, so you had to sleep 13 hours. I didn’t have much in flashlights, and my bathtub doesn’t even hold water.

So I took 3 credit cards, $1000 in cash, packed up a few things and walked down a dark stairwell. The lobby was illuminated with jack o’lanterns, a macabre touch. I got a cab quickly, a got to my parking garage on Pier 40. My big fear was that I couldn’t get my car out, because the exit gates of the garage need electricity. But the garage guys were great, they had all the gates wide open. I drove back to my apartment with no traffic lights, walked up the 12 flights again and packed as much as I could carry, including my laptop, and went down again. Second time was tough on the knees. I felt bad leaving my neighbors behind, but what could I do? I offered to take them anywhere they wanted, but they have no money and nowhere to go.

Drove through giant traffic jams to get to the West Side Highway. Once on it, no traffic. I am in northern Connecticut, near the Massachusetts border, at my brother’s house. I’m not going back until next week.

[GeronL]

I am sure they are happy to see resources diverted to the marathon too

[GeronL]

meanwhile the MSM is almost totally ignoring West Virginia