Employees from MTA New York City Transit worked to restore the South Ferry subway station after it was flooded by seawater during Hurricane Sandy.
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Weather forecasters said Hurricane Sandy was going to be ugly. And it was.
• Utilities are estimating that at least 5.2 million East Coasters are without power today. Nearly 2 million are in New York and New Jersey. More than 700,000 in the dark live in Manhattan.
• Storm damage is projected to be $10 billion to $20 billion, possibly making it one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.
• Airlines canceled more than 12,000 flights — 8,900 Sunday and 4,800 yesterday. Metropolitan New York shut down its three airports — two in Queens, the other in Newark, N.J. Aviation officials guaranteed that travel will be disrupted through the week.
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Blacked-out skyline of lower Manhattan. (REUTERS/Keith Bedford)
NYC without power.
Preview of Hurricane Sandy?
Lower Manhattan during Hurricane Donna in 1960. #sandy #frankenstorm twitter.com/LucyKafanov/st…
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‘Brownout’ in Times Square in postwar New York during a national strike of soft coal miners. To conserve energy, all non-essential lighting, like the billboards of Times Square, were turned off. 1950.
McMahan Gallery
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The Second Ave Subway, under construction in NYC.
The Hurricane Irene-caused NYC subway shutdown, handwritten.
So, that’s it. Trains shut down.
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Manhattan — 7 degrees hotter than its surrounding areas. Hot in the city, indeed.
What if you had to rake one-fifth of Manhattan?
This week’s Back Story, by Daniel Stone. Click for text.
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