Current systems of care have challenges and inconsistencies leading to gaps in service delivery.
Despite this, gaps in service provision to address child poverty in these areas are set to grow as dramatic budget cuts and welfare reforms take hold.
It wasn't clear whether the gaps in service were because of damage to network infrastructure or from the crush of people simultaneously trying to use their phones.
Some have used bicycles or ferries; others have tried the extra buses that the transportation authority has offered to patch gaps in service.
Chief among its goals, the F.C.C. wants future broadband investment to be focused on the areas where gaps in service remain.
Another persistent problem is known as bunching, buses on the same route traveling one after another, resulting in large gaps in service and aggravatingly long waits.
The question whether governments should purchase services from the private sector to address gaps in service provision has been fiercely debated.
A study of hospitals in Queens has found uneven care, gaps in service, an insufficient number of beds for the borough's estimated 2.3 million residents and a delivery of health care that "is not sustainable in the current state".
Namely, that it will provide opportunities for some, working in specialist areas, to widen their impact on the communities they exist to help - not fill gaps in service provision or replace the state".
"This will shine a light on those local authorities that are pro-actively working with rough sleepers and homeless people, and it will show where there are gaps in service provision," he says.
But there were still huge gaps in service, the biggest being the subway system, which remained dark and deserted as night fell, missing the evening rush for a second day.
