New York City was perfectly positioned to absorb the worst of Hurricane Sandy's storm surge — a record 13 feet. Lower Manhattan received the brunt of the flooding. READ STORY ...

Hurricane Sandy gave a terrifying preview of its fury ... even heavy snow. In New York City, an expected Monday night storm surge was the biggest threat — a wall of water up to 11 feet poised ...

Sandy’s damages totalled $19bn in New York City (and more than $65bn in the US overall). It was the most expensive storm since 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, since been eclipsed by Harvey and Maria.

Ten years after Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, billions of dollars have been spent infrastructure to make the city more resilient. NPR's Scott Simon talks to photojournalist Nathan Kensinger.

New York City closes schools and suspends subway, bus and commuter train service. The stock exchange closes, and Broadway goes dark. Oct. 29 Hurricane Sandy makes landfall near Atlantic City ...

Nearly three years after Hurricane Sandy decimated huge swaths of New York, the city’s Build it Back program has doled out over $100 million for homeowners toward repairs, and begun construction ...

And with it would come the next high tide at New York Harbor, likely higher than ... the tide was still going out to sea where Hurricane Sandy had begun its slow turn toward land.

Sandy was only a Category I hurricane when she ravaged the New York and New Jersey area, but she was a terror, causing nearly $70 billion in damage (2012 dollars, and $65 billion of it happened in the ...

Ten years after Hurricane Sandy, the marathon returns to full capacity for the first time since 2019. The traditional starting line for the New York City Marathon is on the Staten Island side of ...

For New York City at least, Sandy was not the dayslong onslaught ... and its winds were down to 75 mph, just barely hurricane strength. "It was nerve-racking for a while, before the storm hit.