BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Conor Tomas Reed stood beside a flagpole in front of a pair of apartment buildings in Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood on Thursday afternoon, waiting for more volunteers. These buildings, like many in the neighborhood, were mostly still without power.
"I've been here pretty much 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.," said Reed, a doctoral student at City University of New York and a professor at Baruch College. "Last night, we just went around handing out food, dry goods, flashlights, anything people needed."
The flagpole had become a meeting place for Hurricane Sandy volunteers, and earlier Thursday, it served as a rallying center for people in the hurricane-battered neighborhood to request food, clothing and other necessities. Reed said he learned some elderly people had been stuck on higher floors of their buildings without power or running water, marooned by elevators that weren't working.
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