Jamaica, NY IS in New York City, in the borough of Queens to be exact.
News reports this morning mentioned that a major Verizon hub was damaged
in the explosions and aftermath. I would expect internet and telecom
problems to continue for awhile. 

Dan Robinson
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(in the bronx, fortunately)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Budd [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 4:57 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Maelstrom
> 
> 
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Scout wrote:
> 
> >On 12 Sep 2001, at 15:17, Winship wrote:
> >
> >> Umm, faulty memory here, isn't sthohns in NY?  Douglas
> >
> >Yup, not too far from NY City .. the server is obviously 
> down.. as are the
> >web pages.. and stjohn's web pages.. that they worked as 
> well as they did
> >yesturday is amazing.
> >
> >  ...Cleo  [log in to unmask]
> 
> St. Johns is in Jamaica, New York (Long Island) very close to NYC.
> It's amazing that they were accessible yesterday, but not surprising
> that they themselves were functioning, as things were reasonably
> normal outside of Manhattan.
> 
> They may be down for some unrelated reason; it is also possible that
> they have been rendered temporarily inaccessible due to disaster-
> related telecommunications failures that hit today. Remember,
> a *lot* of construction-type cleanup is being done in Manhattan
> now.
> 
> Dennis
>