and get up and move on their way. they moved south to the famous macy s herald square location. they did the same thing there. they went inside. they laid down, did the die-in and continued on. that happened a few times tonight. nothing was too structured, too solidified. but things seem to be sort of coming to an end tonight here and where i am right now is essentially underneath the williamsburg bridge and this is fdr drive. it s a fairly major highway along the east side of manhattan. we do know this large group as i mentioned of about 500 protesters or so did shut down the fdr for a short period of time. there were a flub of people arrested. we don t know the how many people were arrested. but as has been the case with the last two nights, we usually don t find out till the next morning. but also has been the case within the last couple days, they have all been peaceful arrests, mostly things like
to go to the room a few hours earlier reporter: in the study nyu professor bjorn hanson reveals some surcharges you may not expect. like when the bellhop takes your bags to your room. there may be an added gratuity. reporter: so you re paying tries? that s right. reporter: planning on having the hotel store your luggage as a courtesy? some hotels charge $2 a bag. thought $5 for a coke from the mini bar was tough to swallow? how about the restocking fee sometimes as high as $5 more. want to guarantee a king or two queen beds? $30, please. sort of makes me feel like i am being ripped off. reporter: american hotel and lodging association told abc news, hotels and resorts provide guests full disclosure for all fees charged at the time of booking with each property setting its fee structure. according to professor hanson one of the challenges for guests is that these fees are not consistent across the same hotel brand. so someone could stay at a brand hotel on the east sid
a bomb squad is on the scene because they are trained in understanding this explosion. it is a five-alarm fire. in terms of injuries, that s the obvious concern. local hospitals have received a couple. we have seen some people come out of the building on stretchers. it is too early for that kind of information. if you take a look at google maps, we ll show you what these two buildings were that are now gone. this is about 116th, 117th street on park avenue in manhattan. that may not mean to you. it is the east side of manhattan. heavily residential. on this storefront, level of one was a spanish church. the other one, a pea iano repai shop. you can direct people to where they are. right around the corner from that is a. more heavily traffic, foot traffic area. this is probably a quieter street where this happened. again, it is a concern because of all of those buildings that have those shared walls. we know this is an urban area.
papers, like he didn t take snowplows to the upper east side! all of those rich guys like donny deutsche who are used to having people come to their door personally and shovel! like de blasio did the boroughs, outer boroughs but didn t take the plows to the upper east side! you talk about class war fare! he is employing snowplows for his own brand of class war fare! someone told me that atlantic avenue over in brooklyn, you could have the indianapolis 500 run there today. oh, yeah. right down to the pavement. justin bieber could drag race on it! i happen to have gone over, ventured over to the east side of manhattan yesterday last night and it s incredible. you can get stuck on park avenue the conditions are so terrible over there. the interesting thing about de blasio and what happened in that
and if you do visit, you should use that line, you can go up and see harlem. ive you zoom out and look at that station on the map, you will see that it is very near the harlem river. dangerously near the harlem river. when a hurricane is galloping north, straight for you, set to unlow pressure rivers from their banks, underneath that map are the tunnels, the subway tunnels that act like veins for the city. but if the harlem river was going to turn the subway tunnels on the east side of manhattan into its tributaries, if the harlem river was going to surge down into those subway stations and into those subway tunnels, then the whole eastern side of the city was an open question as to what was going to happen then. and that route into the subways was exactly where sandy was due to send the harlem river.