On the Upper East Side, residents of 200 East End Ave. — many of them elderly — found themselves without power after the storm flooded their basement.
And just like that, their neighbors across the street at 180 East End offered to take them in.
That was welcome news for Mike Traub, 74, who suffers from muscular dystrophy and gets around with a scooter — but who lives on the ninth floor of 200 East End, and had no way of getting downstairs.
Or so he thought.
The building’s porter, Luis Cortes, carried him down.
“I knocked on the door and said you need to get out, but he said he couldn’t walk. I said no problem, and carried him down nine flights. It was difficult, but I did what I had to do” said Cortes, 53.
Another building employee, José Murillo, carried Traub across the street.
When he got to his host’s apartment, “They were very welcoming, and food was pushed on us. Cakes, coffee, salads, soups.”
Traub’s wife, Bonnie, said, “They were super wonderful. They put little chocolates on our pillows and they made us an incredible breakfast. New Yorkers are the greatest people in the world.”
One of those who played host to displaced neighbors was Robert Horowitz, 82, a part-time Traffic Court judge in Nassau County, and his retired teacher wife, Micki, 81.
“I spoke to my wife, and we said [to the people working downstairs], ‘Send someone up who needs a bed.’ ”
They sent up Dorothy Kreindler, 80.
“They were true good Samaritans, as many people were there and at 170 [East End],” Kreindler said. “They are wonderful people.”