Japan Earthquake 2011: Bloomberg Says City Will Donate To Relief Efforts

New York City is helping residents donate to the victims of the earthquake in Japan.

Bloomberg described the earthquake and aftermath as "sad news" and said people looking to help should give to the Mayor's Fund To Advance New York City.

Jean Wallace with the Mayor's Fund told HuffPost people can donate via credit card by calling [phone], or by sending a check to:

The Mayors Fund NYC
253 Broadway 8th floor
New York, NY 10007

Checks to the Mayor's Fund should include instructions to use the donation for earthquake relief efforts.

Comments

[banker67]

09:19 AM on 03/15/2011

Now I want to take back what I said about keeping public money here where it's so sorely needed. Now that I've watched more footage of Japan's disaster and have heard that GE's nuclear plants there are likely to fail, I say let's help them all we can.
I can hold fire about the potholes, the crumbling bridges and the burgeoning homeless population a little longer, I suppose. The Japanese people are probably going to suffer terribly for mistakenly electing leaders who are so profoundly stupid or greedy or both that they actually built nukes by the score in the most earthquake-rattled nation in the world.
Like so many similarly vile American officials, I'm sure the Japanese candidates looked very good on television and never mentioned their intention to nuke-ulate their nation.
Okay, Mike, send 'em our tax dollars. But you might chip in a few $100 million of your own dough. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't miss it for even a 'New York minute.'

[WhileImHere]

03:07 PM on 03/13/2011

How about focusing on the fact that hospital after hospital in poor neighborhoods is closing because they own money to banks that got bailouts from the Federal government. How did Bloomberg let St. Vincent's go under. A tsunami of greed has come over New York.

[fortressfountain]

11:13 AM on 03/13/2011

Send money to Japan? Guess if he can afford to give mega stores money to supply NY with low wage jobs.
Money is drying up and not flowing like water where I live.

[EmilyRose2010]

08:43 PM on 03/12/2011

could he start with the flood victims of his neighboring state of nj first?

[susane07]

07:35 PM on 03/12/2011

Let him donate a couple of his 16 billion dollars to Japan. This city is broke and he won't tax his dear rich friends on Wall Street.

[ECB]

03:30 PM on 03/12/2011

Sure Mike we trust you............NOT !

[JoeDoorman]

02:40 PM on 03/12/2011

Give money to the... "Mayor's Fund To Advance New York City"?
Yeah right, not a chance Napoleon. I'll give it to the Red Cross.
The only difference between Bloomberg and Senator Kruger is...
Bloomberg hasn't been caught yet.

[bluguy8]

07:46 AM on 03/12/2011

Were broke , or so he's said . So how do we have money to save japan . But we have to fire teachers because there's no money

[nuff swaid]

07:24 AM on 03/12/2011

Send money to "the Mayors fund for NYC"--huh----Before I do that again I want to know what happened to the $300 I sent for Haiti relief---by all accounts that money never went to its intended people. Where is the audit? I want to see that my last donation helped a family in need and wasn't diverted in any way. Why the Mayors fund for NYC and not a designated fund exclusively for haiti or Japan?--Sorry I just don't trust that the money went where it was supposed to and didn't line a politicians pocket or be used for-what--hiring $20 million employment agencies to hire new teachers during a layoff!!!

[kaj74]

11:39 PM on 03/11/2011

Homeless people are being turned out in the cold streets from PATH, he's trying to rip off the NYPD of their residual payments, he wants to make tax paying citizens pay for 911 responders, he wants you to pay a toll to cross into Manhattan from anywhere, he wants to lay off teachers, etc. etc. etc...all because NY is broke. And yet he has the compassion to set up a fund for Japan? Bloomberg, you should have been a Republican, oh wait, you were, right after you were a Democrat. To bad you're not independent enough to look after your own.

[jonnyquest]

11:33 PM on 03/11/2011

I think it's great that Mighty Mike wants to help the victims in Japan, perhaps one day he'll help the people of NYC since that's who he's supposed to represent.

[EmmaNYC]

11:02 PM on 03/11/2011

Maybe he intends to send the 4600 teachers he is threatening to layoff because of his false claim that the city is broke.

I have a better idea. Let's send Bloomberg to Japan. He has enough hot air in his inflated ego to extinguish the thousands of fires that have broken out.

[Sam Salinitis]

09:04 PM on 03/11/2011

from where? the NYC pension? Or from the fines he collects off the city serfs?

[RATMWiccan]

04:32 PM on 03/11/2011

I thought we were broke Bloomer's?

What a sch //muck!

[bluguy8]

03:57 PM on 03/11/2011

and how is that going to happen. he's firing the teachers , but he has enough money to send to Japan ? I feel badly for them , but get a grip, USA first