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  • A recovery worker talks on his mobile phone inside the eerily-lit lobby on the Whitehall Street side of One State Street Plaza. A coiled length of corrugated drainage hose remains outside.
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  • A massive array of power cables lead from truck-mounted generators into 17 State Street. Workers, seen on the left, are hoisting material from the basement using a basic rope and pulley.
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  • Workers remove sandbags on Water Street. The sandbags are being loaded into small carts by hand, then emptied into roll-away containers.
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  • Verizon worker Frank Xavier, on the right, talks to a co-worker. Xavier and his crew are based in Rhode Island.
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  • Ventilation ducts dry the air in The Learning Experience Children's Academy on Washington Street. The Halloween"Trick or Treat" sign taped to the door seems sadly ironic.
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  • The State Island ferry terminal is lit, but the surrounding neighborhood is still largely with electrical power and even traffic signals. The ferry itself is back in operation.
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  • Sandbags put in place to protect against flood waters are now removed, while pumps continue to empty basements of water.
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  • Hazardous waste conatiners and Verizon trucks block the street.
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  • Consolidated Edison workers restoring electrical power on the corner of Whitehall and Water Streets.
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  • Keith Haring's untitled sculpture of two dancers outside 17 State Street is a bright contrast with the trash bins behind it and the trash truck being filled.
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  • Freedom Tower at 1 World Trade Center seen from the south side of the World Trade Center Memorial. The new building stands in stark contrast to the mess on the streets below.
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  • Workers wearing protective clothing installing ventilation ducts in the Albany Street service entrance to 90 West Street.
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  • Office workers leave a building on Washington Street with belongings, passing ventilation ducts in place to dry the once flooded building.
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  • The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, also known as the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, is still flooded a week after hurricane Sandy hit. Cleanup vehicles, one with a boat on its roof, are outside the Battery entrance.
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  • Workers empty trash bins filled with oil-soaked debris into a 30-cubic-yard roll-off trash container, their protective clothing soaked in oil. The smell of spilled oil permeates the air.
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  • A sign advertising the New York City Marathon, cancelled because of the storm, ironically states "Everything else is a warm-up." MTA workers in safety vests can be seen in the distance, beyond the still closed Whitehall Street subway station.
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  • An MTA hardhat rests on the rail of the entrance to the Whitehall Street subway station, still closed a week after hurricane Sandy hit.
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  • MTA workers take a break outside the Whitehall Street subway station. Orange drainage hoses snake across the sidewalk.
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  • Workers wheel bins of waste from the once-flooded 17 State Street.
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  • Workers from Kansas City Power and Light have come from Missouri to aid in restoring power to lower Manhattan.
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  • Outside the still-closed Rector Street subway station, Joe's Gourmet is well-lit and open, and is even stocked with flowers.
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  • Tidemarks can be seen nearly half way up an 8-foot high fence surrounding a construction site on West Street near the exit to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.
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  • A tangle of ventilation ducts crosses a sidewalk on Washington Street. Huge dehumidifiers dry air from the once-flooded buildings.
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  • A worker at 30 West St, wearing clothing oil-soaked from working in the flooded parking garage behind him. The tide mark from the floodwaters can be seen on the wall, above the shadow of his head.
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