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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Hazardous waste conatiners and Verizon trucks block the street.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Consolidated Edison workers restoring electrical power on the corner of Whitehall and Water Streets.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Workers wearing protective clothing installing ventilation ducts in the Albany Street service entrance to 90 West Street.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Looking over the East River from the Brooklyn promenade, lights start to come on in Manhattan’s financial district, four days after Sandy. Freedom Tower, at 1 World Trade Center, seen on the left with construction cranes at the top, is lit.
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  • Looking up the East River from the Brooklyn Promenade past the Brooklyn Bridge, midtown Manhattan, with the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building, is brightly lit, while most of the Lower East Side is still in the dark, four days after power was lost to Hurricane Sandy.
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  • The Princess Line's Caribbean Princess passes the Statue of Liberty in the dusk with still dark Elizabeth New Jersey in the background on its way to the Caribbean. It's prior cruise was sailed around Sandy, and put in to New York late.
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