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Storm spins death and 'a lot of tears' along path
Death blew in on the superstorm's wild winds and sea water torrents, claiming 90-year-olds and children with capriciously toppling trees, taking ...
UN council holds makeshift meeting
The United Nations Security Council held a makeshift meeting after superstorm Sandy forced the world body to remain mostly closed for a third day.
New Yorkers search for food, water and electricity
The people gathered around the side of a building on Third Avenue looked like refugees huddled around a campfire. But instead of crackling flames, ...
Northeast travel slowly resumes
Travel in the Northeast creaked back into motion Wednesday as Superstorm Sandy receded, allowing workers to check runways and railroad tracks for ...
As blackouts linger, Northeasterners try to adjust
Homes grew chilly without heat. Food spoiled in refrigerators. Televisions remained silent. And people everywhere scurried for a spot to charge their ...
Nets opener postponed by Sandy; NYC Marathon on
The Nets' regular-season debut in Brooklyn will have to wait. The New York City Marathon, however, is good to go. With mass transportation still ...
US stocks mixed after historic 2-day close
Stocks closed mixed on Wednesday in their first session since Superstorm Sandy forced a historic two-day shutdown of trading. The Dow Jones industrial ...
Big Apple improvises to reopen for business
Two days after Superstorm Sandy brought business in New York City to a standstill, stores that lost power are again serving customers, albeit by ...
US stock market reopens after a two-day shutdown
Wall Street is back in business. Traffic is snarled, streets flooded, subways idle and power out in many parts of Manhattan and beyond, but the New ...
Another Superstorm casualty: Trick-or-treating
Seventh-grader Samantha Bertolino was especially proud of her Halloween costume this year. She was going to be a vampire, and she really had it ...
Amtrak plans to restore some NYC service on Friday
Amtrak says it plans to restore some service on Friday to and from New York City, which has been without intercity train service since it was walloped ...
Nets-Knicks opener in Brooklyn postponed
Barclays Center sits right above a major mass-transit hub, an ideal destination for fans throughout New York. Not right now, though. With those ...
Soriano opts out of last year of deal with Yankees
Reliever Rafael Soriano opted out of the final year of a three-year, $35 million contract with the New York Yankees on Wednesday and will likely seek ...
Guard delivers food, water to flooded NJ city
National Guard troops delivered food and water to residents in this heavily flooded city across from Manhattan on Wednesday as officials sent out a ...
Sliding AFC West teams collide
It might be less of a collision and more of a mere bump in the night when the Chargers and Chiefs meet on Thursday night. Both teams are in free-falls
Airports and stock exchange reopen; NJ devastated
Two major airports reopened and the New York Stock Exchange got back to business Wednesday, while across the river in New Jersey, National Guardsmen ...
Museums, theaters among NYC attractions reopening
Museums, the Empire State Building, Broadway theaters and many stores reopened Wednesday to the relief of tourists who'd been stuck in hotel rooms ...
NYC utility prepped for big storm, got bigger one
They planned big for Superstorm Sandy, but not big enough. Consolidated Edison figured any surge would not surpass the 11-foot record set nearly two ...
A slowed, darkened NYC begins to stir to life
Two days after superstorm Sandy brought New York to a standstill, residents itching to get back to work and their old lives noticed small signs that ...
Sandy shuts down Northeast air travel
Superstorm Sandy grounded more than 18,000 flights across the Northeast and the globe, and it will take days before travel gets back to normal.
Oil price rises on superstorm threat to supplies
Oil prices rose Wednesday on concerns about near-term oil supplies in the U.S. following a fierce storm that caused havoc across the northeastern part ...
Wall Street reopens after being shut for two days
Wall Street is getting back to work. Trading resumed on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday after being closed for two days because of Hurricane ...
East begins to stir after 2 days of hunkering down
Wednesday is the new Monday for thousands of workers and schoolchildren as the East Coast begins coming back to life after superstorm Sandy. New York ...
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 ...