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In darkened NYC, safety of concerns
Faced with the prospect of days without power and swaths of the city plunged into darkness at night, police brought in banks of lights and boosted ...
A day after Sandy, New Yorkers find a changed city
Stripped of its bustle and mostly cut off from the world, New York was left wondering Tuesday when its particular way of life — carried by subway, lit ...
In NYC, the show goes on, even if sans audience
For the second night in a row, superstorm Sandy and its aftermath forced David Letterman to live out that performer's nightmare: Telling jokes to a ...
Disarray, millions without power in Sandy's wake
The most devastating storm in decades to hit the country's most densely populated region upended man and nature as it rolled back the clock on ...
Sandy prompts harrowing NYC hospital evacuation
Evoking harrowing memories of Hurricane Katrina, 300 patients were evacuated floor by floor from a premier hospital that lost generator power at the ...
Crippled NYC subways could hamper storm recovery
The floodwaters that poured into New York's deepest subway tunnels may pose the biggest obstacle to the city's recovery from the worst natural ...
Sandy takes out 25 pct of cell towers
Superstorm Sandy knocked out a quarter of the cell towers in an area spreading across 10 states, and the situation could get worse, federal regulators ...
Wall Street back in business after storm shutdown
The New York Stock Exchange will open on Wednesday — because it had to open. In a bit of welcome news for fund managers, investors and even the ...
Storm's cost may hit $50B; rebuilding to ease blow
Superstorm Sandy will end up causing about $20 billion in property damages and $10 billion to $30 billion more in lost business, according to IHS ...
Water, fire, destruction: NYC after the superstorm
The massive storm that pummeled the East killed 10 people in New York City and left the nation's largest city eerily quiet Tuesday, with no running ...
Wall Street still dark, exchanges test systems
With lower Manhattan still largely without power Tuesday, U.S. stock exchanges tested contingency plans to ensure trading resumes as soon as possible ...
Sandy leaves death, damp and darkness in wake
As Superstorm Sandy marched slowly inland, millions along the East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, with huge swaths of the nation's ...
Superstorm Sandy causes flooding in New York City
Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline with 80 mph winds Monday night and hurled an unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater at New ...
Mammoth storm Sandy plunges NYC into darkness
Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and ...
NYC Marathon not expected to be affected by storm
New York City Marathon organizers expect superstorm Sandy to have little effect on Sunday's race. "We're extraordinarily lucky the marathon is not ...
Crane dangles from NYC high-rise, clearing streets
A construction crane atop a $1.5 billion luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan collapsed in high winds Monday and dangled precariously, prompting ...
Superstorm Sandy takes aim at Atlantic coast
Stripped of hurricane status but every bit as dangerous, the weather monster known as Sandy wheeled toward the New Jersey and Delaware coast Monday ...
Viewers get mixed messages on storm from TV
Television networks offered compelling pictures and a gripping narration of the monster storm that put Monday on hold for millions of people in the ...
Storm leads companies to postpone earnings reports
A number of major U.S. companies postponed quarterly earnings reports scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, as Hurricane Sandy barreled into the East ...
Sandy gains power and aims for Northeast
Hurricane Sandy wheeled toward land as forecasters feared Monday, raking cities along the Northeast corridor with rain and wind gusts, flooding shore ...
All US exchanges shut down before Hurricane Sandy
U.S. stock markets are closed as Hurricane Sandy nears landfall on the East Coast and are likely to remain closed Tuesday. The last time the New York ...
Eastern US braces for dangerous superstorm
From Washington to Boston, big cities and small towns were buttoned up Monday against the onslaught of a superstorm that threatened 50 million people ...
Former suspect in Etan Patz case to be freed
While prosecutors weigh what to do about a suspect who surprisingly surfaced this spring in the landmark 1979 disappearance case of Etan Patz, the man ...
NYC nanny not herself before children's killings
Friends and relatives of Yoselyn Ortega, the New York City nanny accused of stabbing two young children to death, said she appeared to be struggling ...