25 Amazing Acts of Kindness After Superstorm Sandy Your faith in humanity restored in 60 seconds, guaranteed. An East Village doctor with a New York Times profile is offering free medical care: Gothamist Airbnb features $10 rooms for stranded folks: Bleecker Street Pizza is still serving slices — by flashlight, in a gas oven: Loppear And this place, 11B Express, is handing out free pizza: Follow Us Duracell has a truck in Battery Park where New Yorkers can charge their phones for free: Gizmodo And in Hoboken: scooterbb CNN provided a power station to Lower Manhattanites: Be sure to follow @_Cooper and @gregseals. Some strangers are doing the same: velojoy And this hero brought a power strip: Brokelyn SEE MORE: • Katrina? David Stern Sends Well Wishes to Victims of Wrong Hurricane • Donald Trump Is Still an Asshole Bronies are offering other Bronies a place to stay: Alec Baldwin’s wife bought groceries for her neighbors: And Alec Baldwin himself visited NYU: </noscript> NYC language school Fluent City is offering free workspaces: Yelp It’s also donating $20 for every class signed up for. Email rentspace@fluentcity.com. U-Haul’s deal: 30 days of free storage and moving to residents in the Northeast U.S. In addition to the 30-days-free self-storage assistance being offered, people who need boxes can take advantage of the U-Haul Take a Box, Leave a Box Program. The program enables customers to return their reusable boxes and allows others to take them as needed — FREE. U-Haul encourages anyone who has any type of reusable box to drop it off at the nearest U-Haul location and allow another family to reuse the box, free of charge, instead of throwing the reusable box into the recycling bin. U-Haul also has propane available and urges customers to stop in to ensure that their propane tanks are topped off, since propane is a good thing to have on hand when these storms come through. Families needing more information about the 30-days-free self-storage assistance program should contact one the following U-Haul regional offices. Also in the East Village, the Northern Spy Food Co. gave out free lunch: In Hoboken, a good Samaritan set out snacks: In Pelham, NY, a food market offers frozen-goods storage: DeCicco Food Market @ 43 Fifth Ave, Pelham NY offering to store your fridge goods for free & charge phone #Sandy @lohud @dndailypolitics — Sara Caldwell (@SaraBCaldwell) November 1, 2012 Free Colombian soup from Cafecito Bogotá in Greenpoint: NY Sports Clubs are letting New Yorkers shower, charge phones and even exercise for free: wellandgoodnyc.com The Wall Street Journal is suspending its paywall: Clean drinks from NYC Water: bastablejc Free bike rentals: Free waffles near the Brooklyn Bridge from Waffletruck: AAJorgensen The Bridgeport Sound Tigers hockey team is selling weekend tickets for $0.00: CTPost Last but not least: Ben Stiller serving pancakes in Brooklyn. Be sure to spread the love. Follow Us SEE MORE: • Springsteen, Bon Jovi to Headline NBC’s Sandy Benefit Concert • Rooftop Rescue: NYPD Helicopter Picks Up Stranded Staten Islanders
Keiren Smith 01.11.12 @ 5:34 pm And amazingly…not a SINGLE ONE of those acts was Donald Trump donating five million dollars.
BGVA 01.11.12 @ 5:39 pm I think the NYT suspended its paywall as well for the time being, and Chase banks are waiving overdraft fees. Always awesome to see stories like these, especially after what’s happened in the last week.
Sandrita 01.11.12 @ 10:48 pm He did help during the storm by opening the foyer of one f the towers and gave free coffee and food for whoever needed it!!!
disqus_cyG0jnUC3M 01.11.12 @ 10:52 pm Nice roundup of some really moving gestures. Thanks for the alert. HPN.
Mimi Davis 01.11.12 @ 10:56 pm AMAZINGLY, these are random act of kindness, mostly done by “regular” people, do you see any wealthy people in the street offering help to a fellow human being…NOT…they are all on the west coast in one of their many residences…
Next Luxury 01.11.12 @ 11:43 pm Amazing acts of kindness! Now these are the types of stories that should be on the news! http://www.nextluxury.com
Janet Sellers 02.11.12 @ 12:10 am We wish you all well and thank these good souls for their courage to give. to others. Last summer: Here in Colorado, during the fires and the evacs, so many people opened their homes to total strangers with kids, pets, etc. and renewed my faith in humans.
Barry Braker 02.11.12 @ 2:19 am We heard stories of price gouging on hotel tooms? I hope not true. We are liberals here in ny, and ha e to show the OTHERS how to behave.
alberta 02.11.12 @ 9:23 am What a blessing when hearts are moved to help those in need. That is America.I am proud to be an American