-
Water being pumped out of the basements of NYCHA buildings streams across the pavement and into the street. The water, which often sat in the bsaements for as much as a week, is mixed with fuel and oils from the basements.
-
Coney Island House, a NYCHA housing development, sits powerless along the Coney Island waterfront. Nearly a week after Sandy hit New York City and cities across the Atlantic Seaboard, many public housing units are still without power and heat.
-
A displaced resident gets a bowl of soup from a relief service set up by Reaching-Out Community Services. Communities have banded together, with donations and services coming from all across the city to help those affected as they wait on government relief aid.
-
Sarah Thomson, 25, assists at the Gravesend Houses in Coney Island. The NYCHA housing development is one of five distribution points that have been organized around Coney Island for affected residents, providing food, water, clothing and other supplies. Thomson, an East Village resident, is also affected by the damage from Hurricane Sandy, and has been staying with friends while she waits for power to return to her apartment building.
-
Deborah Carter (in orange), the Resident Association President at Gravesend Houses, shows the water damage incurred on the building's offices. Residents had stored holiday supplies and donations in the room, which were going to be given to children in the building for Christmas.
-
An abandoned car, destroyed by Hurricane Sandy's storm surge and subsequent flooding, sits along the roadway outside Sea Gate.
-
A waterfront residence in Sea Gate.
-
Residents walk past waterfront houses in Sea Gate at the end of the day. The area still lacks power and some residents whose houses are still inhabitable choose to stay somewhere else.
-
A storm-ravaged flag is set up in a vacant lot along the waterfront in Sea Gate, which endured severe damage from Hurricane Sandy.
-
Friends of Michael Szajngarten (not pictured) help board up the basement to his waterfront house in Sea Gate. The house, along with most of Szajngarten's belongings, was heavily damaged by the storm surge and ensuing flooding.
-
The Coney Island - Stillwell Avenue subway station remains closed.
-
Mark Rodriguez, 45, carries his five-month-old pomeranian, Choko, as he looks through donations at the FEMA relief center at Cyclone Stadium in Coney Island.
-
A family of Sea Gate residents walk around the neighborhood after viewing the damage at Sea Gate's historic light house.
-
Coney Island residents queue at a gas station to fill up fuel tanks. It generally took people over three hours to make it through the line.
-
Affected residents go through clothing donations at a FEMA relief site located at Cyclone Stadium in Coney Island.
-
Mikheil Mtchedlish, 44, looks out at the ocean.
