A story in four pictures. First we see the disaster sites from above, and there’s a calm and strange beauty to the image. as we move closer to the destruction in the images, we feel closer to the tragedy.
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Atlantic City, New Jersey
Four Ways of Seeing a Hurricane
Photograph: Mark Gimein/Bloomberg
Sign on an apartment complex near Coney Island.
After the Storm, Beyond Avenue X, Isolation Lingers
To get to Coney Island now take the subway to Avenue X, in Gravesend, then head east on the bus. follow the empty elevated line to the two Coney Island train stations that have not reopened, past the lines of...
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Photograph by Emile Wamsteker/Bloomberg
People at a Sunoco Inc. station in Bloomfield, New Jersey, on Nov. 1, 2012.
The $35 Shower and Other Tales of the Hurricane Economy
On October 30, the Equinox Health Club on East 54th Street, where monthly dues run up to $183 per month, were offering non-members showers. It wasn’t an act of kindness: The price for a shower: $35.
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Source: NOAA National Weather Service Collection
45th Street and Grand Central Depot, New York, Blizzard, March 1888
In 1888 Storm, the Telegraph Failed. Now It’s Cell Phones.
From the National Endowment for the Humanities archive, a clip from the New York Sun of March 15, 1888, reporting on the market’s first day open after the two day shutdown for the Blizzard of 1888. The paper noted that...
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Photograph by Car Culture
Uber, which offers mobile software for booking black cars and other rides, hikes prices during peak times.
Uber Reverses on Hurricane Sandy Cab Price Hike in New York
The car service Uber was dinged by New Yorkers who accused the startup of unfairly profiting from Hurricane Sandy. The San Francisco-based company, backtracked today eat the costs of paying drivers extra.
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A good samaritan provides electricity for storm victims to charge electronic devices on 11th Street on October 31, 2012 in Hoboken, New Jersey.
The Hurricane Cash Crunch
At City Paint and Ace Hardware store in Hoboken, N.J. business was cash only. The same at the food store: "Cash only! No lights! Big line!"
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Source: Google
A map of New York traffic. Black lines, like those on the Williamsburg Bridge and the Queensboro Bridge, mean it's virtually impassable.
Advice For Post-Sandy New York Traffic: Take the Bike
If you’re a New Yorker living in a borough other than Manhattan and you’re thinking about coming into the city, my advice to you: stay home.
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Winds Howl in New York, Roar Gets Heard Everywhere
How special is New York? Even as the waters were still rising last night, before the extent of the hurricane damage was known, folks on Twitter -- New Yorkers and others -- were already debating that.
Read more »High-Tide Storm Was a Known Risk for New York
A 2008 study concluded that New York was vulnerable to storm-surge flooding from even a moderate storm and recommended that local authorities build protections as other cities have. Researchers used storm surge models to study how events of varying sizes --...
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Brooklyn’s Undeterred Begin Anew Amid Sandy’s Storm Ruin
Terrence Bomman, 50, walked from 59th Street in Manhattan across the bridge on his way to his home in Crown Heights in Brooklyn, a trip of more than 8 miles. Bomman said he’d been out of work for a year...
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