It was the storm that made history and misery, left death and unprecedented destruction, crippled mass transit and tested the city’s mettle from the Bronx to Breezy Point.
Hurricane Sandy pounded the city into submission Tuesday, with officials reporting at least 19 New Yorkers killed during the storm’s lethal two-day attack and estimating damages at a staggering $20 billion.
The dead included a heroic city cop who drowned inside a flooded Staten Island basement after rescuing his girlfriend, infant and father; a dog-walker and her friend killed by a tree that fell in Brooklyn; a Manhattan woman who died when a power outage cut off her oxygen supply; and a man killed when a downtown mini-tsunami whipped across lower Manhattan and slammed him through a glass door. “Catastrophic or historic” were hardly overstatement when it came to Sandy, said Gov. Cuomo as the city and the suburbs awoke to a massive hurricane headache that threatened to linger for days.
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