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Long Islanders fume over utility's storm response
Priscilla Niemiera has a message for officials at the Long Island Power Authority. "I'd tell them, get off your rear end and do your job," the ...
Many on NY's Long Island still dark after Sandy
Two weeks after Superstorm Sandy, while most utilities have restored electricity to nearly all their customers, there was one glaring exception ...
Frustrated residents protest outside NY utility
Even as the lights came on for many who lost power in New York and New Jersey during the superstorm and a later nor'easter, hundreds of residents ...
Gas rationing, shortage fray nerves in NYC
A gasoline shortage caused by Superstorm Sandy forced 1970s-era rationing on New Yorkers Friday, adding a fuel-gauge obsession to their frayed nerves ...
NYC, Long Island to ration gas to ease fuel crunch
With long gas lines persisting more than a week after Superstorm Sandy, New York imposed a gasoline rationing plan Thursday that lets motorists fill ...
Frustration mounts over lingering power outages
Vincent Pina finally saw a couple of utility trucks coming down his street Thursday and started to wave in anticipation. But they just cruised past ...
New storm bears down on Sandy-battered NYC, NJ
A nor'easter blustered into New York and New Jersey on Wednesday with rain and wet snow, plunging homes right back into darkness, stopping commuter ...
Official: NY emergency boss fired in Sandy flap
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has fired his $153,000-a-year emergency management director for diverting a crew to remove a tree from his Long Island ...
In states hit by Sandy, voters find ways to polls
Superstorm Sandy's floodwaters drove Bob Mackie from his home on Long Beach Island, N.J., but nothing was going to stop him from voting Tuesday.
Fear of looting grips NYC as new storm threatens
Richard Chan prowled around his cold, dark Staten Island home with knives and a sword to protect it from thieves, standing his ground as another East ...
Sandra Lee urges: Get involved in storm recovery
Food Network star Sandra Lee has a simple plea about superstorm Sandy recovery efforts — don't get complacent. Though government efforts to help those ...
States scramble to help displaced residents vote
One storm-battered New Jersey county was delivering ballots to emergency shelters Monday while New York City was lining up shuttle buses to ferry ...
Where will housing be found for Sandy's victims?
Government leaders are turning their attention to the next crisis unfolding in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy: finding housing for potentially tens ...
Cold weather and new storm add to victims' misery
Shivering victims of Superstorm Sandy went to church Sunday to pray for deliverance as cold weather settling in across the New York metropolitan ...
As 2012 campaign nears finish, 2016 lurks
Relieved to see the long, costly 2012 presidential race end? The 2016 campaign is closer than you think. In some subtle ways, the jockeying to succeed ...
Lights in lower Manhattan, misery in outer regions
The lights were back on Saturday in lower Manhattan, prompting screams of sweet relief from residents who had been plunged into darkness for nearly ...
Electricity explains why some have gas, some don't
It's a question that's rankled and bewildered many in the Northeast: Why do some areas struck by Superstorm Sandy have plenty of gasoline and others ...
NYC Marathon is canceled following storm damage
Gisela Clausen delivered the news to her fellow runners from Germany as they walked into the New Yorker Hotel. "We spend a year on this. We don't eat ...
Fuel shortage means gridlock in lines for gasoline
When it came to fuel supplies and patience, the New York metro area was running close to empty Friday. From storm-scarred New Jersey to parts of ...
Experts: NYC sea barrier could have stopped surge
The vast destruction wreaked by the storm surge in New York could have been prevented with a sea barrier of the type that protects major cities in ...
Battered NJ confronts how to rebuild its shore
In its tear of destruction, the megastorm Sandy left parts of New Jersey's beloved shore in tatters, sweeping away beaches, homes, boardwalks and ...
New York struggles back 2 days after killer storm
Flights resumed, but slowly. The New York Stock Exchange got back to business, but on generator power. And with the subways still down, great numbers ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...