NYC evacuation zone? Please enter your email address to find out

In preparation for Hurricane Irene of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered a mandatory evacuation, flooding five of New York County (area A) areas Friday afternoon. The official evacuation deadline has been set for 5 p.m. ET Saturday, residents are asked to move, but before the New York City on Saturday at shut down the transit.

Do you want to know if you are in the evacuation zone? In the address bar at the top courtesy of WYNC "Zoom" box.

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Hurricane Irene: the search for the NYC evacuation Center, Foursquare

Wall Street Journal is created, the New Yorkers to interact with location-based social media app Foursquare to find the closest to the center of the NYC Hurricane evacuation.

This is a simple yet powerful implementation of Foursquare, letting users zoom in or zoom out of an interactive map, which is found close to the evacuation of the production of the cells in the list. Click the appropriate article number in the left column of the evacuation centers and the map Zooms at the same time, the Center will be displayed exactly placed.

If you live in New York City area and has not yet figured out Where you are in one of the evacuation zones (wake up, is how the Hurricane!), this is an interactive app We embedded, which prompts you to type the address and it will appear in the evacuation of the area and the nearest evacuation center.

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