Staten Island Tries To Clean Up Under Threat Of Impending Nor'easter
Surrounded by horrifying devastation, residents of Staten Island were preparing Monday night for another hit when a Nor'easter plows through the area later in the week.
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Surrounded by horrifying devastation, residents of Staten Island were preparing Monday night for another hit when a Nor'easter plows through the area later in the week.
Many New Jersey residents faced yet another bone chilling night Monday as temperatures fell and power had yet to be restored to parts of the Garden State.
Election officials in the Tri-State Area are vowing that power outages and storm damage won't prevent people from voting in one of the tightest and most expensive races ever.
Some areas of Long Island and the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens have been taken off the outage map maintained by the Long Island Power Authority, on the grounds that they are too damaged to accept electrical service.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo slammed the state's utility companies Monday for what he called their poor performance in restoring power and their failure to communicate with consumers.
There are still plenty of people without power in Westchester County, but County Executive Rob Astorino says there is good news.
Construction has resumed at the World Trade Center site a week after it was left flooded by Superstorm Sandy, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday.
Most of the more than 1,700 schools in New York City have reopened, but not all.
The storm was expected to bring an inch of rain and winds gusting up to 60 mph on Wednesday. It was set to arrive as much of Newark was without power due Superstorm Sandy.
New York metro area residents had other issues on their minds when Halloween came and went last week, but in New Jersey, some families were out trick-or-treating Monday night – albeit five days later than usual.
Along the Brooklyn waterfront, piles of debris lay strewn about from homes soaked with sea water and sand during Superstorm Sandy.
A New York City Council member came personally to a gas station in Queens to help fix a crashed computer system, according to the owner of the service station.
Commuters packed Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North trains. Many were so crowded, riders couldn't even get out the door. Others had to push their way onto trains from the platform.
Natural disasters always attract people who want to help, but they also attract criminals who seek to profit from people's pain.
Volunteers are organizing on social media or just showing up with offers of help.
