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Hurricane Irene: What You Need to Know
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
6:26 p.m. | Updated What follows are the most important things to know about the state of preparations for Hurricane Irene in New York City and its immediate surroundings.

1. Evacuations: A mandatory evacuation order, said to be the city’s first ever, has been issued for low-lying coastal areas of all five boroughs, including the entire Rockaways, Governors Island, Battery Park City and much of the financial district in Lower Manhattan. Details are here.

2. Mass transit is largely shutting down by Saturday afternoon. The city subways and buses will stop running at noon, as will PATH trains and commuter railroads connecting Manhattan to New Jersey, Long Island, Westchester County and Connecticut. New Jersey Transit’s bus, light rail and paratransit rides, for people with disabilities, will stop at 6 p.m. Saturday. The Staten Island Ferry will be suspended if sustained winds stay above 46 miles per hour.

The state announced that to aid in evacuations, a variety of fares and tolls would be suspended in the city, including all city buses, generally beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday. Tolls are suspended at the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, the Throgs Neck Bridge, the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge and the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge. Also, tolls will be suspended on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, Throgs Neck Bridge and Bronx-Whitestone Bridge. Fares will be suspended for subway and rail passengers
at stations in the mandatory evacuation area.

3. Airports: Starting at noon on Saturday, all three major airports in the region will be closed to arriving flights. They will remain open for departures, pending changes in the weather, but most of those scheduled departures have already been canceled, according to Steve Coleman, a Port Authority spokesman.

4. Bridges: Winds greater than 50 m.p.h. will prompt closings of the East River bridges: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Williamsburg and Ed Koch Queensboro. Winds over 60 m.p.h. will prompt closings of the George Washington, Verrazano-Narrows, Robert F. Kennedy (formerly Triborough), Bronx-Whitestone, Throgs Neck and Henry Hudson Bridges.

5. Amtrak There will be service reductions on Saturday and no service on Sunday. (Passengers who have paid for travel on canceled trains can contact Amtrak to receive refunds without fee or penalty or can rebook for future travel.)

6. Roads: Private cars will be allowed on New York City streets. Taxis will accept shared rides and will be priced on a zone system: $10 for trip within one zone; $5 more for each additional zone; other boroughs are each one zone.

7. Personal safety: Residents riding out the storm should not tape windows; it does more harm than good, federal officials say. Removing window air-conditioning units can be more dangerous than leaving them in place, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg says. The safer option: take shelter in interior rooms.

8. Courts: Jurors in New York City, Nassau and Suffolk Counties will not have to report on Monday. (Jurors are told to check with the local jury commissioner’s office on Monday night for further instructions.) New York city courts will be open for arraignment on Saturday until 6 p.m. (except Staten Island, which will close at its usual Saturday closure time of 1 p.m.) On Saturday, the decision will be made whether to close on Sunday, which, if the storm continues to track as predicted, was considered
likely. Courts in Nassau and Suffolk Counties will be closed on Sunday.




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