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.

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...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

“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, ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- A commission formed to examine ways to guard against storms like Sandy released a report Friday that calls for flood walls in subways,...

Allstate on Friday said that it will discontinue running an advertisement that features the destroyed home of a Staten Island couple, a representative...

NEW YORK — A New York City hospital that had to evacuate hundreds of patients during Superstorm Sandy after it lost power is set to reopen. Offic...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- More than three decades before Superstorm Sandy, a state law and a series of legislative reports began warning New York politicians to...

NEW YORK — The city will work on upgrading building codes and evacuation-zone maps, hardening power and transportation networks and making sure ...

NEW YORK — Facing Superstorm Sandy's daunting toll of wreckage and displacement in the nation's largest city, officials have put much of their h...

By Joshua Schneyer and Selam Gebrekidan NEW YORK, Nov 27 (Reuters) - At 4 p.m. on Oct. 29, as heavy winds battered the...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Top political leaders in New York put their heads together Monday on big requests for federal disaster aid as Gov. Andrew Cuomo a...

NEW YORK (AP) — More than 5,000 New Yorkers will be hired for temporary government jobs cleaning up after Superstorm Sandy, officials said Sunday. ...

-- Think Sandy was just a 100-year storm that devastated New York City? Imagine one just as bad, or worse, every three years. Prominent planners and...

NEW YORK -- Some residents of a New York City neighborhood that suffered fire and flooding during Superstorm Sandy say thieves looted their damaged ho...

NEW YORK -- Superstorm Sandy plunged some immigrants living illegally in the U.S. into darkness and even deeper into the shadows. Some of those who n...

This Thanksgiving, many New Yorkers find themselves in a unique position. While many have resumed their regular lives, after Hurricane Sandy, there ar...

When Sandy hit New York City, it completely destroyed some neighborhoods just as completely as it spared others. While Breezy Point was under water an...

NEW YORK -- For New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, leadership often came with an empathetic hug. For New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, it came with an angry ti...

CANARSIE — Residents along Canarsie's devastated waterfront are slamming the city for underestimating the threat of floods before Hurricane Sandy. ...