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Hurricane Sandy New York

Family Affected By Sandy Now Facing Health Crisis

Brian Penny | Posted 05.07.2013 | Impact
Brian Penny

It's been six months since Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast. While the media and majority of the American public have largely moved on to other...

NYC Evacuation Zones Will Include 640K More People

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.03.2013 | New York

NEW YORK — Hurricane evacuation areas would encompass 640,000 more city residents, and the number of zones would double, under plans disclosed F...

My Night With Sandy

Jason A. Otaño | Posted 04.30.2013 | Latino Voices
Jason A. Ota&ntildeo

They were, by-far, the most damp, dark and cold nights of my life. My old neighborhood was rendered powerless for almost a month, resembling a scene from a post-apocalyptic thriller. Six months have now passed and the recovery is well under way.

Design Firm Rebuilds Sandy Victims' Home For Free

The Huffington Post | Rain Embuscado | Posted 04.24.2013 | HuffPost Home

It started with an alumni community's effort to help their beloved coach.

Coney Island Hopes For A Big Summer After Sandy

AP | JAKE PEARSON | Posted 04.01.2013 | New York

NEW YORK -- At the beginning of each tourist season, the entrepreneurs who pitch the thrill rides, hot dogs, sideshows and souvenirs at gritty Coney I...

NYC Aquarium Rebounds After Sandy

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 03.27.2013 | New York

NEW YORK — The New York Aquarium has cherished its big-city setting by the sea for half a century. But the ocean that is the aquarium's lifebloo...

Heroes and Hope In Hotel Hell: The New Diaspora of Hurricane Sandy

Sandi Bachom | Posted 05.19.2013 | New York
Sandi Bachom

If there is a gift in all this, it's that these kids have a glimpse of a possibility of life past the projects.

King Busting Rubio's Cahones: Coming Out of His Corner to Redefine the GOP

Steven Kurlander | Posted 05.12.2013 | Politics
Steven Kurlander

In order to take the White House in 2016, the GOP must win traditionally blue states like New York and New Jersey to amass the electoral votes necessary to win the presidency. Only a guy like Christie, not Miami's Rubio or Louisiana's Jindal, can achieve this.

The Calm Before the Storm... and After

Enrico Tettamanti | Posted 05.08.2013 | New York
Enrico Tettamanti

I spent months equipping the boat to withstand the extreme conditions of the unfamiliar destinations I had on my itinerary, ranging from the icy Artic to the blazing heat of the Equator. Of all the places, New York was the least expected where I would have to brave a natural disaster.

Sandy Stirs Up Trouble For City Drinking Water

THE NEW YORK WORLD | Posted 03.06.2013 | New York

These are murky times for New York’s drinking water. New York City water customers recently inched a step closer to seeing federal authorities fo...

Gerry Smith

Four Months After Sandy, Lower Manhattan Businesses Still Waiting On Verizon

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 02.28.2013 | Technology

Potential customers don't need to ask whether The Wayland, a chic bar in Manhattan's East Village, accepts credit cards. They can just read the sign -...

That Sandy Baby Boom Is Actually Happening

Posted 02.28.2013 | New York

Turns out that Hurricane Sandy baby boom in New York might really be happening. The New York Post reports the city seeing a big bump in expecting ...

Dems Pushing For Early Voting In New York

Newsday | Joan Gralla | Posted 04.27.2013 | New York

ALBANY -- New York's consistently low voter turnout and the Election Day problems superstorm Sandy caused have sparked a drive by Democrats to make Ne...

WATCH: Seaport Still A 'Ghost Town'

AP | MEGHAN BARR | Posted 04.27.2013 | New York

NEW YORK — The historic cobblestone streets and 19th-century mercantile buildings near the water's edge in lower Manhattan are eerily deserted, ...

Should Sandy Relief Money Go To Religious Groups?

THE NEW YORK WORLD | Posted 02.22.2013 | New York

On a bitterly cold Wednesday evening in January, the Coney Island Gospel Assembly was packed, its handsome dark wooden pews filled not with Pentecosta...

Did NYC's Rats Really Migrate Inland After Sandy?

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 02.22.2013 | New York

NEW YORK -- At the height of Superstorm Sandy, city residents watching seawater pour into the subway system couldn't help but wonder: What will become...

Rats Driving Brooklyn Heights Crazy

Posted 02.20.2013 | New York

New York City exterminators say business has doubled since Hurricane Sandy, as rats driven inland from the shorelines by the storm got cozy in cushy n...

Cars, Homes And Hot Tubs Washing Ashore After Hurricane

AP | By WAYNE PARRY | Posted 04.20.2013 | Green

MANTOLOKING, N.J. (AP) — On the surface, things look calm and placid. Just beneath the waterline, however, it's a different story. Ca...

Occupy Sandy's Strange Money Problem

| Posted 02.13.2013 | New York

By Alan Neuhauser, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer RED HOOK — Occupy Sandy's fundraising campaign for communities devastated by October's superstorm ha...

PHOTOS: A Cold Winter In Coney Island

NARRATIVE.LY | Posted 02.06.2013 | New York

Dick Zigun was ready for a two-foot flood. In three decades at Coney Island, every hurricane he had seen blew through like a tourist passing the board...

How Rockaway's 'Skid Row' Is Healing After Sandy

Posted 02.06.2013 | Impact

By Ray LeMoine, TakePart New York City was blessed with 11 miles of sand as its southeastern edge: The Rockaway Peninsula, one of the finest beache...

$1.8 Billion Of Sandy Aid To Help NYC Homeowners Rebuild

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 04.08.2013 | New York

NEW YORK — Grants for homeowners to fix their properties, spending to install generators at public housing complexes and competitions to create ...

Picking Up The Pieces In Manhattan Beach

NARRATIVE.LY | Posted 02.05.2013 | New York

“We are out of sliced ham,” my mother said over the phone. “That is our chief concern at the moment.” It was ten a.m. on October 29, 2012, ...

100 Days After Sandy: Welcome To Washed-Away

NARRATIVE.LY | Posted 02.04.2013 | New York

Monday, Nov. 5, 2012 — One week After Sandy “Welcome to Washed-Away,” Tom Burke says, sitting shotgun as his cousin Jessica Taylor drives her...

Sandy Relief Centers Plagued By Looters

DNAinfo | Posted 01.30.2013 | New York

STATEN ISLAND — Relief camps and centers set up to help victims of Superstorm Sandy have had to deal with looters snatching supplies, organizers sai...