I don’t really get this. The land area of Yonkers, NYC, etc. is not that large.
Unless the bridges are still unpassable, get to the mainland, drive 30 miles and get all the gas you want. Go to Scarsdale, Greenwich, Brewster, Rye, etc.
I’m about 30 miles north of Yonkers in Putnam County and there is plenty of gas here. There are some lines around the rush hours but they aren’t that long. I gas up after 9 PM and there is no problem.
I don’t see how they open the 4 or 5 for weeks if not months. The 4 + 5 are literally the main business lines for the subway for wall street, union square, brooklyn bridge, brooklyn, the courts, etc.
The parking garages are all flooded out and you can’t drive in manhattan now unless you have 3 people in the car.
Total clusterF$%^ all around.
Gas lines a mile or more in Greenwich, Rye, Scarsdale, etc. Many stations without power, gas. ConEd trucks being sent to Manhatten. New Jersey refusing power company trucks from non-union states.
After Irene, It was a crew from Alabama that finally got our power back, after 8 days. And they said, You’re welcome, ma’am. People in Alabama are lucky! I’m in Westchester county, NY.
Bloomberg and Cuomo have police cars herding all incoming cars to NYC into single-line idling, so each car can be checked for 3 passengers. No wasting gas here. It’s difficult in spots around Westchester, and parts of Connecticut are a tangled, smashed mess, but situation is desperate in Staten Island, New Jersey, Long Island.
in the 70s, when we had a car while living in Manhattan, and when we had the gas shortages, we would drive out the Lincoln Tunnel on Sunday morning, and go down to the first rest-stop heading south on the New Jersey Turnpike and fill up the gas tank
there were still lines, but they were nothing compared to the lines at the scarce gas stations in Manhattan
and besides, while we were at it we could do some shopping in New Jersey and not pay the New York City & state sales taxes
the trip was worth it every time, in spite of the toll to go back into Manhattan at the Lincoln Tunnel