Keeping Connected To NY, NJ In Wake Of Superstorm

October 31, 2012

Abby Elizabeth Conway

A man photographs damage caused by a fire in the Belle Harbor neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens on Tuesday. (Frank Franklin II/AP)

Two days after Superstorm Sandy battered the Eastern Seaboard, the JFK and Newark airports reopened, the New York Stock Exchange was trading on generator power, and parts of the NYC subway system were set to be back in operation Thursday.

Despite showing signs of life, much of the East Coast remained crippled, with as many as 6 million people from North Carolina to as far north as Maine and as far west as Michigan still without power.

According to The Associated Press, National Guard troops in Hoboken, N.J., continued to work to evacuate residents and distribute supplies, while fires that destroyed several homes in Mantoloking, N.J., rekindled due to natural gas leaks.

We've gathered some resources for those of you looking for on-the-ground reporting from the areas hardest hit by the storm, including damage assessments and transit trackers. You can also check out Googe.org's crisis map, which covers shelters, power outage information, traffic advisories and more.

From The New York Times:

Live updates
Assessing the damage
User submitted photos, mapped
And this moving piece on the circumstances of some of the Sandy-related deaths in NYC

From WNYC:

From The Wall Street Journal:

From NJ.com:

From The Guardian:

This program aired on October 31, 2012. The audio for this program is not available.