EMERGENCY HOUSING / SHELTERS

Find Rental Housing Following Hurricane Sandy
HUD is also cutting red tape to help displaced storm victims
White House EXECUTIVE ORDER Establishing the Hurricane Sandy  Rebuilding Task Force <pdf>

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Click here for List of NYC Emergency Shelters

To find the nearest shelter, click here

• Click here for Bus Service to Select Overnight Shelter Locations

Click here for NYC Day time Warming Shelters

Click here for American Red Cross-Find a Shelter

FEMA Shelter Finder- Text Message
Search for shelters via text message: text: SHELTER and your ZIP code to 43362 (4FEMA). For example: Shelter 01234 (standard rates apply).

BOROUGH SPECIFIC FOOD RESOURCES

Manhattan
Lower East Side/Chinatown
Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV) Distributing food, water, and coordinating community volunteer efforts

Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)
Providing essentials to low-income residents including: towels, clothes, toiletries, non-perishable food and blankets

Staten Island
Project Hospitality- Providing essentials to shelters including: towels, clothes, toiletries, non-perishable food, blankets

Queens
Queens County Economic Development Corporation

Providing essential services and toiletries. Long-term disaster relief efforts will be focused on rebuilding small businesses
Seth Bornstein  (718) 263-0546

The Rockaways/Queens
Rockaway Waterfront Alliance- Distributing food, water, flashlights

Ocean Bay Community Development Corporation- Outreach to local residents in need of food, clothing, and door-to-door assessment of needed services
Patricia Simon (917) 345-3642

Brooklyn- Coney Island
If you need food, water, essential needs go to:

•  W. 25th & Surf Avenue

• 2770 W. 5th, Room 4C (Warbasse Community Room)

• 33rd & Neptune Ave

If you or a family member needs assistance being evacuated, please email Council Member Domenic Recchia at sandyreliefrecchia@gmail.com               

CITY-WIDE FOOD RESOURCES

Click here to find NYC locations distributing - Food, Blanket, and Water

Click here to locate food pantries, soup kitchens and senior centers throughout New York City
(Food Bank of NYC)

Click here to find food program in your area (NYC Coalition against hunger)

Click here for City Harvest-Emergency Food Locator 

Click here for NYC Food Truck Locations

WIC  Participants Affected by Hurricane Sandy click here

Economic Resources

National Grid Announces Hurricane Sandy Emergency Economic and Community Redevelopment Program for Gas Customers

National Grid's Hurricane Sandy Emergency Economic and Community Redevelopment Program is designed to provide assistance to communities and customers who need it now. The three-tier program is designed to complement funding allocated to communities and businesses through federal and state/city programs, insurance or other emergency sources. (read more)

Recovery Grant Update-National Grid is funding up to $1,000 for its residential customers that sustained physical damage and lost natural gas service as a result of Sandy. (read more <pdf>)

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

Student Loan Relief for New Yorkers Affected by Hurricane Sandy

Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) Due to Effects of Hurricane Sandy <pdf>

Disaster Unemployment Assistance for the Self-Employed <pdf>

NY State Department of Labor - Unemployment Insurance Claimant Extended to November 17th. These individuals will need to call 1-888-209-8124 and speak to an agent to receive benefits for the prior week. 

Small Business Administration (SBA) Loan Program

• SBA website for Disaster Assistance
• SBA disaster loan fact sheets
• The Small Business Administration Disaster Assistance Customer Service Center
• Phone: (800) 659-2955, TTY: (800) 877-8339
  E-mail: disastercustomerservice@sba.gov

Temporary Employment Opportunities

For more Information & Preliminary Registration on the New York State Department of Labor website click here

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that New York State has received $27.7 million in federal Disaster National Emergency Grant (NEG) funds. The grant will be used to hire workers to help clean up communities affected by Hurricane Sandy in Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties.
For more information click here.