"Zone A low-lying areas include Coney Island, Manhattan Beach, Battery Park City, Far Rockaway, Broad Channel, South Beach, Midland Beach" - Mayor Bloomberg

Mayor Bloomberg issued a mandatory evacuation on Friday for all New Yorkers living in low-lying areas of the city.
"The sun is shining but don't be misled," Bloomberg said. "There is a very dangerous storm headed in our direction."
The mayor said New Yorkers living in those areas -- which include Battery Park in downtown Manhattan and the Rockaways in Queens -- will be asked to leave by 5 pm Saturday.
Meanwhile, public transportation in New York will also begin to shut down by noon on Saturday, he said as he urged those in the evacuation zones to head out Friday. [NY Post]

All of the Rockaways are not Zone A, but are also being forced to evacuate. Here's a map of evacuation zones. .

Bloomberg is on TV talking about it as we speak, and he even mentioned the Dave Matthews concert cancellations. More show cancellation announcements on the way.

Baseball games, beaches, parks, street fairs, etc, etc are all being closed/cancelled too.

Earlier this week 50 Cent called off his Aug. 30 performance at the "40 Day" aka "Family Day" event in Queens, N.Y., after community members and law enforcement officials voiced fear over a possible shootout.

However, a new, more peace-inspired rumor has surfaced on the street: If 50 had, in fact, taken the stage at the G-Unit-helmed neighborhood party, he hoped to have Cam'ron join him. This seemed like an unlikely move from 50 Cent's camp considering the war of words that the G-Unit and Dipset members exchanged a few years ago. But before this story had time to gather too many legs, Killa Cam confirmed to MTV in a video interview that he had no plans of making the trip to Queens, where his beef with 50 first began.

"Nah, I'm not going to no show in Queens," Cam'ron said. "I don't know how true it is ... a few of my people -- associates -- said [some of 50's associates] was trying to reach out. But, I ain't going to no concert in Queens. Come up to Harlem Week. We could sit down and have the roundtable meeting if you really wanna be serious. Or meet anywhere ... we can meet in Benihana's if you wanna be serious. It don't matter. I'm not squashing a problem we had in Queens at your event." [The Boombox]

50 Cent may not be playing the Queens event, but he is playing the Beach on Governors Island on October 3rd. Tickets go on 'Internet Presale' today (Friday) at noon, and general sale on Saturday at the same time.

More importantly, if you haven't seen it already, check out the video of Mike Bloomberg discussing the "50 Cents" situation (and other related videos) below...

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Fats & Bloomberg @ Pink Elephant, NYC - Nov 8, 2007 (CRED)

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today presented the Key to the City to music legend Fats Domino in honor of his efforts to raise money for struggling musicians in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. After the hurricane, which destroyed Domino’s home in the Ninth Ward and forced his evacuation to Baton Rouge, Domino returned to New Orleans to rebuild his house and help restore the City’s morale. [PR]