<p>I hope all of our MT community in and around NYC are safe, dry, warm and well fed tonight and in the coming weeks.</p>
<p>Thanks MomCares! I have a daughter at NYU who’s safe and warm in a dorm with some emergency electricity and water still running, as well as her own food and access to meals, but is incommunicado with neither phone nor internet access. However the university is doing a fantastic job of communicating with parents and taking care of the kids; relocating those whose buildings do not have electricity at all or water for the duration. Hard to not be able to get in contact, but secure in the fact that NYU is on the ball!</p>
<p>@Christie2 - I’ve heard from friends with kids at NYU in similar circumstances, and can imagine that it’s nerve-wracking to be out of touch. This is a time to be thankful that they are young, healthy, creative, collaborative, skilled with power tools (kidding?) and so very resilient - a reminder of all the great things our kids learn by being MTs!</p>
<p>We have friends who are housing some displaced NYU students, so I know the community is coming together around them and they will all have great stories to tell about all of this some day.</p>
<p>All of our NYC and Long Island friends and family that we’ve heard from are fine, though friends who live on 14th in the meat packing district are also incommunicado and must be flooded out based on photos we’ve seen of their neighborhood.</p>
<p>It’s going to be a tough few weeks but I know New Yorkers, and particularly theatre people, will pull together and make it work.</p>
<p>Wagner College on Staten Island evacuated all but 59 students (out of approx 1400) from campus. Students were asked to leave by 4pm Sunday and to take anyone they could with them that was not from the immediate area. Wagner College President Guarasci and his wife rode out the storm with the remaining students, who were all hunkered down in the school gymnasium with emergency generator and food. The campus is still without power, and classes are due to resume Monday, Nov 5th. A number of trees on campus were uprooted, and a few windows were broken, but that was the major extent of damage. Their facebook page has been keeping the school community and parents updated, as their email/internet servers were disabled by the storm. The school sits atop one of the highest points on Staten Island, with magnificent views of the NY Harbor and Lower Manhattan. All in all very lucky, other areas of Staten Island and the rest of NYC not so lucky, with major flooding of the coastal and low lying areas. A very messy cleanup begins…</p>
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<p>Hope all these schools are able to reopen by Monday and have suffered no significant damage! I’m hearing of interrupted rehearsal schedules for some school shows, but no doubt opening night audiences will be sympathetic.</p>
<p>It looks like most of Broadway is up and running again. Bravo!</p>
<p>My daughter lives up in Harlem, and had no problems with electricity, phone, internet or flooding. Many NYC auditions were cancelled this week, mainly due to transportation problems. It looks like some have been re-scheduled for this weekend, so things are slowly getting back to normal for Manhattan, at least. I’m still up in Pennsylvania with no power!</p>