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Following Sandy’s trail of devastation through N.Y. and N.J. More than a week after Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline, states in the Northeast are striving to recover. The storm killed more than 100 people in 10 states.
Nov. 6, 2012
Shoppers pick through water-damaged shoes at Sneaker Town in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn. The store is clearing out inventory damaged by superstorm Sandy.
Mark Lennihan
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Nov. 6, 2012
Self-directed volunteers George Kyrtatas, left, and Mike Giletto, who own Sweet Water Bar and Grill in Cinnaminson, N.J., serve hot soup from a portable kitchen to help Sandy victims in the Oakwood Beach area of Staten Island.
Paul J. Richards
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Nov. 6, 2012
Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit and Navy seamen offer assistance to Staten Island residents removing household items damaged by Sandy. Marines arrived on Staten Island on Nov. 4 to aid in the recovery effort.
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Nov. 6, 2012
Two women look through piles of donated clothing in front of Long Beach City Hall in Long Beach, N.Y.
Kathy Kmonicek
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Nov. 6, 2012
Bill Klipp of Florida works on cleaning out his father's flood-damaged home in Brick, N.J. Brick is ordering mandatory evacuations in advance of an approaching nor'easter and in the wake of superstorm Sandy.
Mel Evans
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AP
Nov. 6, 2012
New Yorkers wait in line to cast their ballots in an unheated makeshift tent set up as a polling place at a school in the Rockaway neighborhood in the Queens.
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Nov. 6, 2012
Raena Lamont, 3, wears a Captain America costume at a polling center doubling as a donation site on Staten Island.
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Nov. 4, 2012
A representative of the Salvation Army walks past homes destroyed by superstorm Sandy in Breezy Point, a neighborhood in Queens.
Kathy Willens
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AP
Nov. 4, 2012
Garbage lies piled on the street in the New Dorp neighborhood of Staten Island in the aftermath of Sandy.
Seth Wenig
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AP
Nov. 4, 2012
Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), center, gestures after he was asked by an unidentified woman, left, whether the government would be able to provide housing for people who lost their homes in Breezy Point, a neighborhood devastated by Sandy's storm surge in the Queens borough of New York. Schumer attended Sunday Mass with members of the Breezy Point community at St. Thomas More Catholic Church. New York Fire Department Marine Operations Battalion Chief James Dalton, right, who is in charge of dewatering flooded areas including Breezy Point, listens in.
Kathy Willens
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AP
Nov. 4, 2012
People wait in line for gas at a station in Glen Rock, N.J.
Mitsu Yasukawa
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AP
Nov. 4, 2012
Joselyn Fine, 34, who would have run the ING New York City Marathon, spends the afternoon volunteering by unloading and organizing emergency supplies near Midland Beach as New York recovers from Hurricane Sandy on Staten Island.
Mehdi Taamallah
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 4, 2012
Supplies are piled on the deck of a moving Staten Island ferry boat in New York.
Craig Ruttle
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AP
Nov. 4, 2012
New Yorkers salvage food from the garbage of a flooded store in the Coney Island area of Brooklyn.
Lucas Jackson
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Reuters
Nov. 3, 2012
A family photo lies in the mud in Union Beach, N.J.
Victor J. Blue
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Bloomberg News
Nov. 4, 2012
A beachfront home was torn in half by the force of the water in the aftermath of Sandy in Bay Head, N.J.
Tom Mihalek
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Reuters
Nov. 4, 2012
A woman walks underneath a boardwalk damaged by Sandy in the Rockaways neighborhood in Queens.
Lucas Jackson
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Reuters
Nov. 3, 2012
Antonio Hernandez peers out of his girlfriend's house, which was damaged by Hurricane Sandy, as debris clogs streets and yards in Union Beach, N.J.
Victor J. Blue
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Bloomberg News
Nov. 3, 2012
Damaged boats sit in a marsh after a marina was destroyed during Hurricane Sandy near Keyport, N.J.
Victor J. Blue
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Bloomberg News
Nov. 3, 2012
Shirts hang in the closet of a mobile home destroyed during Hurricane Sandy in the Paradise Park trailer park in Highlands, N.J.
Victor J. Blue
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Bloomberg News
Nov. 3, 2012
Daniel Parker, right, tries to get into a shed outside his home as his father, John Parker, watches, in the Paradise Park trailer park in Highlands, N.J.
Victor J. Blue
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Bloomberg News
Nov. 4, 2012
A woman sifts through her mother's damaged home for items to save in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens.
Allison Joyce
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Nov. 3, 2012
Roxanne Boothe, right, walks through a hallway in Brooklyn’s Sam Burt Houses, where she is president of the tenants association, checking on residents. The complex, which has been without power since Monday, flooded during Sandy, and a 90-year-old woman who had lived there for more than 40 years drowned on the first floor. "We have no heat, no water, no electricity, it’s dark in the whole building," said Boothe, frustrated that neither the Red Cross nor FEMA has not reached her neighborhood.
Bebeto Matthews
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AP
Nov. 3, 2012
Dominic Dipietco, a specialist with the Maryland Urban Search and Rescue Task Force, pets a search dog named Jed aboard a U.S. Army CH-47 helicopter assigned to the Georgia Army National Guard. They were on a flight from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey to New York’s Staten Island to conduct house-to-house searches.
Tech. Sgt. Parker Gyokeres
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U.S. Air Force via Reuters
Nov. 4, 2012
Volunteers bring clothing and food to an aid distribution center at the Long Beach Ice Arena in Long Beach, N.Y.
John Moore
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Nov. 3, 2012
A swimming pool sits behind a destroyed house in Union Beach, N.J.
Victor J. Blue
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Bloomberg News
Nov. 4, 2012
A roadside sign warns looters in Nejecho Beach, N.J.
Steve Nesius
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Reuters
Nov. 4, 2012
A member of the fire department confronts a boy who was taking copper piping from a neighbor's home in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens.
Allison Joyce
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Getty Images
Nov. 4, 2012
Chris Santos looks through a hole in the partially collapsed basement wall of an oceanfront home in Belmar, N.J.
Mel Evans
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AP
Nov. 4, 2012
U.S. Marines of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit arrive in Staten Island.
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U.S. Marines via Reuters
Nov. 4, 2012
A car that was damaged by flood waters remains unmoved in Brooklyn.
Justin Lane
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 4, 2012
A couple walks through destroyed sections of boardwalk ripped apart by Sandy along Shore Front Parkway in the Rockaways area of Queens.
Lucas Jackson
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Reuters
Nov. 3, 2012
People line up for free gas in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens.
Craig Ruttle
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AP
Nov. 4, 2012
Citizens fill out their ballots in a temporary polling station at the Ocean County courthouse in Toms River, N.J. The special early voting arrangement was created to allow local citizens affected by Sandy to vote in the national and local elections. More than 1,000 citizens each day have voted during the past several days, waiting in line for an average of 90 minutes.
Paul J. Richards
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 3, 2012
A woman passes a group of National Guard members as they march up First Avenue toward the 69th Regiment Armory in New York. The National Guard remains in Manhattan as the city begins a slow crawl back to normality following Sandy’s destruction earlier in the week.
John Minchillo
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AP
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