Superstorm Relief Fund Started

A relief fund is being created just for Superstorm Sandy survivors on Staten Island, borough President James Molinaro and former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Friday. And Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and a top Federal Emergency Management Agency official planned to tour the island.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday defended the decision to hold the New York Marathon, saying electricity is expected to be restored to all of Manhattan by race day, freeing up "an enormous number of police."
"This city is a city where we have to go on," he said.
But Staten Island resident George Rosado blasted the city for the decision.
"It's repulsive," said Rosado, who spent two days scrubbing sludge from his tiled floors and was preparing to demolish the water-logged walls of his home a block from the water. He added: "They should be getting resources to the elderly people who can't fend for themselves. That's more important than a marathon right now."
Along the devastated Jersey Shore, residents were allowed back in their neighborhoods Thursday for the first time since Sandy slammed the coast. Some were relieved to find only minor damage, but many others were wiped out.
"A lot of tears are being shed today," said Dennis Cucci, whose home near the ocean in Point Pleasant Beach was heavily damaged. "It's absolutely mind-boggling."