1) http://caaav.org/caaav-endorses-joint-statement-on-federal-grants-for-sandy-relief
CAAAV works towards organizing Asian communities, particularly immigrants and low income families. CAAAV seems to be active in enabling others, and its site hosts extensive Sandy documentation. This article draws attention to the ongoing Sandy relief efforts of the CAAAV. It reiterates the relevance of the storm even today, further validating the credibility of our project.
This excerpt focuses on the $45,000 collected for the Chinatown Sandy Fund. It is interesting to note that such relief efforts are given so much attention, considering the fact that city officials were seemingly absent in Chinatown during the actual disaster (as elucidated in the CAAAV video posted earlier.)
3) http://live.nydailynews.com/Event/Tracking_Hurricane_Sandy_2?Page=2
A new side of the story to perhaps include – Chinatown was also home to Hurricane Sandy shelters. Reaching out to volunteers could provide us with a neutral perspective on the situation and orient our project (understand how people came into shelters, what they did during their time there, and how they left these shelters).
Seward Park High School in Chinatown served as a shelter for the Hurricane Sandy.
(Mariela Lombard/for New York Daily News)
These are excellent co-references to the testimonies given in the CAAAV video that Lindsay posted. The article acknowledges the power outages in Chinatown and other parts of the Lower East Side, and even cites includes Confucius Plaza (the last site we visited on our tour!) as one of the places experiencing water and power problems. The Con Edison Power Outage Map provides a nice visual of the power outages during Sandy, and shows that Chinatown (center) was hard hit. Maybe we could do a nice ‘Ken Burns’ of this map!
Con Edison – Hurricane Sandy Power Outage Map
