A towering storm surge Monday night left a tragic path of destruction, with death toll still increasing. A look at the aftermath and recovery.
Alan Chin / facingchange.org for The Daily Beast
Schoolteachers from P.S. 50 and Msr. Farrell schools canvass neighborhoods to reestablish contact with their students and prepare for restarting classes next week, after a week of closure because of Hurricane Sandy.
Jack Paterno, 65, was disabled and wheelchair bound and home alone on Nugent Street when the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy flooded his single-story bungalow and he died. This is his bed inside his house.
Neighbor Angie Jaconetti. Glenda Moore fled Nash Court in the Great Kills neighborhood during the height of Hurricane Sandy with her two sons, Connor, 4, and Brandon, 2, but their car was caught by the storm surge and the two children died.
Boats washed ashore by the flood waters of Hurricane Sandy.
Spontaneous food and clothing distribution center on Mill Avenue organized by local residents in the Midlands neighborhood hard hit by Hurricane Sandy.
Neighbors in front of a house whose owner lost her two cats because of Hurricane Sandy, on Foxhaven Lane.
Jack Paterno's wheelchair in the trash.
Daughter Lucy and son Vincent: Beatrice Spagnulo, 80, died inside her single-story home when it was flooded by the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy. Her daughter Lucy was with her but was unable to save her during the rapid onslaught of water.
Beatrice Spagnulo, 80, died inside her single-story home when it was flooded by the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy. Her daughter Lucy was with her but was unable to save her during the rapid onslaught of water.
A family cleans out their home flooded by the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy, on Foxhaven Lane.
Brittany Conigatti recovers waterlogged family photographs as she and her family clean out their home that was flooded by the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy.
Beatrice Spagnulo's home.
Alan Chin / facingchange.org for The Daily Beast
