The best report of the damage to New York City here. Schools will be closed tomorrow as well. Bus and subway service will not be restored for four or five days. All bridges will reopen today except for Rockaway bridges. The Battery and Holland tunnel will remain closed. Both JFK and LaGuardia will remain closed today. LaGuardia will be closed tomorrow due to extensive damage.
17 people die in Superstorm Sandy and swathes of the city wake up under water.
NYC goes dark
Eye of the storm: New York was among the hardest hit by Superstorm
Sandy. A fire broke out in Breezy Point, Queens, destroying between 80
and 100 houses
Transport down: A view of an entirely flooded tunnel under Battery Park.
New York was among the hardest hit, with its financial heart in Lower
Manhattan shuttered for a second day and seawater cascading into the
still-gaping construction pit at the World Trade Center
Damaged: A building that had its facade ripped off by Hurricane Sandy - beds and radiators can be seen in the block
Transformation: A subway station now resembles a river in one of the US's largest cities
Operation clean-up: Debris litters a flooded street in the Dumbo section
of Brooklyn after the city awakens to the affects of Hurricane Sandy
Bang: This image from video provided by Dani Hart shows what appears to
be a transformer exploding in lower Manhattan as seen from a building
rooftop in Brooklyn
Raging: More than 50 homes have been destroyed at Breezy Point in the Queens area of New York, as a result of Hurricane Sandy
Water level: Streets are flooded under the Manhattan Bridge in the DUMBO
(Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) section of Brooklyn, New
York, on Monday night
Extraordinary: This CCTV photo shows flood waters from Hurricane Sandy
rushing in to the Hoboken PATH train station through an elevator shaft
in New Jersey
No train service: Veronica De Souza posted this extraordinary picture
('via ninjapito') on Twitter of the 86th Street station with water above
the platform
No movement: Vehicles are submerged on 14th Street near the Consolidated Edison power plant on Monday in Manhattan, New York
Going nowhere: Chris Berg posted this picture of the flooded Midtown
Tunnel in New York City after Sandy hit the US East Coast on Monday
night
Underwater: A vehicle is submerged on 14th Street near the Consolidated Edison power plant on Monday night in New York
Beached: A huge tanker washed up on shore in Staten Island after the superstorm hit the east coast
A tale of two cities: Lower Manhattan in darkness after Sandy struck damaging power and previously New York city's famous lit-up skyline
Looking down: These shocking views taken from high-rise buildings in Manhattan show the extent of flooding in New York City after it was hit by Superstorm Sandy
Dangerous waves: This photo taken on Monday night shows a flooded street in Manhattan as Superstorm Sandy made its approach in New York
A person holds onto to a flooded car as the flood water rises in New York
As flood waters surge, expected to rise to 10ft, nearly all bridges and tunnels into and out of New York are closed to the public
- Storm damage projected at £12bn // Sandy kills at least 17 people in US and Canada - including ten deaths in New York
- President Barack Obama has declared a 'major disaster' in New York and Long Island
- At least 7.4m properties across US East have lost power // New York City could be without power for a week
- NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg: 'We knew this was going to be very dangerous. This is a once-in-a-long-time storm'
- Bloomberg says city's 911 dispatchers are receiving 20,000 calls per hour and area without power is south of 34th St
- Mass transit system, schools, stock exchange and Broadway shut, as water overflows NYC's historic waterfront
- Record 13ft storm surge threatening lower Manhattan and howling winds left crane hanging from high-rise building
- Over 10,000 flights across the Northeast and the globe grounded due to Superstorm Sandy
- NYU Hospital loses backup power and evacuates patients // 19 workers trapped in Consolidated Edison power station
- More than 170 firefighters battled blaze destroying more than 50 homes in Breezy Point // Nuclear power plant on alert
- Stock trading will be closed in the US again for a second day running - last time it was closed for two days was 1888
- Firefighters save 70 people trapped in Queens >burning houses // Electrical explosion at power plant caught on camera
