About 35,000 homes and businesses inside and outside New York City are being added to flood zones under new preliminary federal maps. They're expected to affect flood insurance rates and zoning rules.
This Jersey shore town came through Superstorm Sandy in better shape than many of its neighbors that sustained serious to catastrophic damage from the waves and storm surge.
New York Sen. Charles Schumer says the second part of the Sandy relief aid package includes as much as $1 billion to help homeowners deal with mold remediation.
An Upper West Side community is rallying to help a store owner who lost her house and three warehouses, filled with 500-thousand dollars worth of mostly holiday merchandise that she had yet to pay off, to Sandy.
With the help of volunteers, storm-damaged Liberty State Park, with its views of the New York skyline and the Statue of Liberty, plans to partly reopen by Thanksgiving.
Gov. Chris Christie announced an end to odd-even gas rationing and NJ Transit's head said a severely damaged rail line could be restored sooner than expected.
Some buildings, including the Parker Meridien hotel, were being evacuated as a precaution and the streets below were cleared, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. City officials didn't have a number on how many people were told to leave.