An update (from Tuesday, Nov. 6) on ways you can help those affected by Hurricane Sandy in Brooklyn and beyond, courtesy of Park Slope Parents. Be sure to read our previous posts about relief efforts, and read more about the Brooklyn Recovery Fund, the Old Stone House and Park Slope Parents, and the Red Hook Initiative.
Sign up to be a Volunteer Superhero!
Have a car and can help schlep stuff?
Or can you volunteer on fairly short notice for an hour or two? (Great for freelancers whose kids are at school.)
Volunteer
Shelter at John Jay, Seventh Avenue between Fourth and Fifth Streets: Volunteers needed day and night. (Today they only had six volunteers and were hurting!)
Shelter at Park Slope Armory, 361 15th St. between Seventh and Eighth Avenues (Note: You need to be comfortable working with the elderly, disabled, and other people with special needs and you cannot bring your children.)
Coney Island. Show up at 2770 W. 5th St. (bring donations, or come with flashlights and comfortable shoes if you’re up for schlepping up flights of stairs to deliver food and check on older folks) after 10am. Contact person Jacob, jstolar@jasa.org/212.991.6572
Donation Drop-Offs (No General Clothing Please!)
- 493 12th St. (contact: Sara or Kay), 7:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. (No clothing unless its winter outerwear!)
- Two Boots, 514 2nd St., around the corner from Seventh Avenue, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Donations really needed
- Blankets
- Food
- Flashlights
- Batteries
- Baby stuff
- Cold medicine
- Winter outwear (jackets, hats, gloves, scarves, etc.)
- Candles
Donate Hot Meals in Red Hook
Other Donation Sites
St. Jacobi Church, 5406 Fourth Ave.; contact 347.470.4192, or
The Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, 520 Clinton Ave. between Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Needed: water, blankets, candles, flashlights, lights, food, batteries, diapers and wipes, gloves and masks, rubber boots, shovels, cleaning supplies and bleach, trash bags, serving dishes and utensils, anything that produces heat, winter wear (jackets, hats, gloves, warm stuff)
Volunteers, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. They need helping sorting donations, kitchen/cooking, clean up, driving. It would be great if anyone has a car and can drive to drop off donations.
Donate Supplies for Rockaways
Donate at 166 7th St., Gowanus, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 9 a.m.-noon and 7-10 p.m.; Wednesday, Nov. 7 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Thursday, Nov. 8, 3-6 p.m.; Friday-Sunday, Nov. 9-11, still to be announced
What’s needed:
Heat and light (there is no power in most of the Rockaways)
- Generators
- Batteries (C and D are most needed)
- Power Strips
- Flashlights with batteries
- Heat lamps: make sure that you are sending whatever fuel is needed to make these go
- Wedding tents and the like
- Gas or propane lanterns (with extra fuel)
- Candles
- Matches
Cleaning supplies:
- Water pumps
- Work gloves
- Mops
- Dust masks
- Bleach (small bottles)
- Industrial cleaner
- Work boots
- Sheetrock saws
- Contractor bags
Toiletries:
- Tampons/pads
- Toothbrushes
- Diapers
- Wipes
- Tissues/toilet paper
- Antibacterial Soap
- Band-aids
Families First
250 Baltic St.; 718.237.1862; www.familiesfirstbrooklyn.org
Collecting
- Diapers — all sizes
- Pull-ups — all sizes
- Wipes
- Baby formula — both powder and ready-to-serve
Drop-off: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.; delivery on Friday
Link
And a great link to get lots of information on what’s needed where: www.google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy-nyc