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Flights resume at NYC airports after snowstorm

New York's airports are digging out from under nearly a foot of snow and allowing some flights to land Saturday morning, while Boston's Logan Airport remains closed....

 

New York City Schools Reopen After Hurricane Sandy

The effort to reopen schools shut by Hurricane Sandy presented officials with a tangled puzzle and New York City’s 1.1 million students with a drastically altered landscape... Cots lined the hallways, and toilets were limited or clogged, so some evacuees went to the bathroom on the floor. Volunteers, gagging at air made more fetid by unwashed bodies, took to wearing masks. “We gave them wipes,” a volunteer said, “but there’s only so much you can do with wipes.”

 

Post Sandy, manic Monday begins for commuters

Commuters into New York City endured long waits and crowded trains, giving the recovering commuter system a stress test a week after Superstorm Sandy ravaged the New Jersey and New York coast lines....

 

NY alert over post-storm housing

Hurricane Sandy

Tens of thousands of people in New York state whose homes were damaged by storm Sandy could soon need housing as cold weather arrives, politicians warn.

 

Storm-crippled NYC subway creaks back into service

New York tried to resume its normal frenetic pace Thursday, getting back much of its vital subway system after a crippling storm, but was l slowed by gridlocked traffic....

 

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 of people walked across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan in a reverse of the exodus of 9/11....

 

As Hurricane Sandy nears, 450,000 on East Coast told to evacuate

Hurricane Sandy

Hundreds of thousands of people were told to flee low-lying areas, New York and Washington shut down their subways, federal offices and local schools closed, and presidential candidates curtailed their campaigning as Hurricane Sandy roared ever closer to the Eastern Seaboard on Sunday, promising epic storm surges, howling winds and drenching rain across much of the Mid-Atlantic region and Northeast.

 

Spring? Yeah, right: Snow for Midwest, Northeast

Spring? Yeah, right: Snow for Midwest, Northeast

Spring can't seem to upstage winter in the Northeast and parts of the nation's midsection, as a far-reaching storm on Wednesday brought up to a foot of snow to areas from the Dakotas to upstate New York....

 

30" of snow forecast for parts of Northeast

A fierce storm is raking northern New England and upstate New York with heavy rain, coating other areas in ice and dumping as much on 30 inches of snow on the winter-weary region.

 

Mayor Bloomberg under fire for handling of blizzard

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a political independent whose reputation was built on competence, may have been defeated this time by a blizzard.

 

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