New York in darkness

30 October 2012 12:01 pm Views - 4392

Much of New York was plunged into darkness on Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront and flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people. Picture shows the skyline of lower Manhattan in darkness after a preventive power outage in New York on Monday night.(Reuters)


This CCTV photo shows flood waters from Hurricane Sandy rushing in to the Hoboken PATH train station through an elevator shaft in New Jersey



Water rushes into the Carey Tunnel (previously the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel), caused by Sandy on Monday night in the financial district of New York



New York City taxis are pictured on a flooded street in Queens after Sandy struck the US East Coast



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