The 41-floor New Yorker Hotel on Eighth Avenue in New York City has 912 rooms. That's only one room short of what it would take to house the 913 New Yorkers still living in hotels in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
On the same day that Prince Harry visited the Jersey Shore, the marooned roller coaster that became a symbol of what Sandy wrought — and made for some of the storm's most iconic images — started its journey back out of the ocean. Meanwhile, its pseudo-replacement will be called "Superstorm." Seriously.
Two recent disasters — the tsunami at Fukushima and Hurricane Sandy — show that shoreline infrastructure can easily result in extensive ocean pollution. With sea levels rising rapidly, this problem could quickly become significantly greater.
Since Hurricane Sandy made landfall six months ago tonight, the government and private insurers have paid out tens of billions of dollars. Where and how much support — well, those payouts have been widely varied, a review of government spending shows.
The World Meteorological Organization announced the retirement after deciding that the name was, well, "inappropriate."
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As expected, the Senate passed a $50.5 billion aid package on Monday evening to help rebuild areas affected by Hurricane Sandy. Along with $9.7 billion in additional flood insurance, Sandy victims now have $60.2 billion coming to their rescue.
The bill's passage would begin to end the months-long drama over allocating funds to victims of the October superstorm.
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Verizon reported a quarterly loss of $4.23 billion, or $1.48 per share, up from losses of $2.02 billion, or 71 cents per share a year earlier, in part because of losses and damages related to Hurricane Sandy.
After a few stumbles and a lot of arguing, the House of Representatives approved $50.7 billion in emergency aid to areas decimated by Hurricane Sandy on Monday night.
Given the still-simmering controversy over the House's partial approval of a federal aid bill today — and how many of the affected are still struggling — it's helpful to quantify Sandy's damage along the East Coast shoreline.
Today the House will finally voted on the long-delayed second half of a federal relief bill that allocates approximately $51 billion for damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy.
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It's been three weeks since The Daily Show last aired, and Stewart was clearly hankering to address one of the most frustrating of many moments of inter- and intra-party squabbling of the new year.
Pretty well everyone was shocked when John Boehner announced, immediately after dodging the fiscal cliff, that Congress would delay voting on the bill for Sandy. The reaction was swift and furious. So, why did he do it?
Delivering on the first of two parts in a controversial federal aid package, the House of Representatives passed a $9.7 billion Hurricane Sandy relief bill Friday by a large margin — 354 to 67. And yet, we can't help but ask: Who are those 67 jerks?
The House of Representatives has passed a $9.7 billion measure to help pay for Sandy flood insurance claims today. The measure obviously isn't as massive as the $51 billion bill that's scheduled for a vote on January 15, but it still matters. Here's why:
After losing the presidential election and several very winnable races, the Republicans enter the 113th Congress with several power struggles. Let's review some of the more interesting ones.
Alex Koppelman on the Sandy relief bill, Charles Blow on future cliffs, Matt Lewis on conservatives losing the culture war, Sheri Berman on waning Arab Spring optimism, and Gideon Rachman on Britain's relationship with the EU.
It was supposed to be the day everyone breathed easy after the House finally (if temporarily) staved off a fiscal nightmare. Then House Speaker John Boehner faced a torrent of criticism for shutting down a vote on a federal relief bill for Hurricane Sandy victims before the Congressional term finished, and by the time everyone headed home for the day, he appeared to have given in.
The New Jersey governor went off on the House leadership in a nuclear press conference Wednesday afternoon, but perhaps more damning than Christie's harsh words for all of Congress was who he blamed for the bill: House Speaker John Boehner.
New York Republican Rep. Peter King called for a campaign finance Lysistrata Wednesday after House Republicans killed a Hurricane Sandy relief package.
The outspoken Republican Congressman from New York, has been blasting his own party's leadership for stalling a bill amidst the fiscal cliff talks that would fund relief for areas affected by Hurricane Sandy
While the fiscal cliff deal was busy getting passed, bitter House Republicans allowed a $27 billion relief package for states affected by Hurricane Sandy to die.
The best thing you can say about the New Year's Day fiscal cliff deal is that it's unlikely to hurt the U.S. economy. Unfortunately, it does almost nothing to help it.
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They are news stories and they are the people behind them, they are photos and videos and GIFs. They are, quite simply and in chronological order, the good things.
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Discovered: Data shows Sandy's online outage toll; what MRIs can tell us about freestyle rap; spiders confuse predators with doppelgänger decoys; thoughtful orangutans.
The star-studded concert for Hurricane Sandy relief is taking place at Madison Square Garden tonight, but you can watch it streaming here.
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Hold on to your riot gear, ladies and gentlemen, because police in New York City are saying that Occupy Wall Street activists deserve credit for helping keep the city safe after Hurricane Sandy.
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The carriers instead insist that emergency standards should be voluntary, an approach the Federal Communications Commission has gone along with.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo compared Hurricane Sandy to Hurricane Katrina during a press conference while trying to ask for more federal aid, and maybe that wasn't the best idea.
Today in books and publishing: News Corp. now wants to merge HarperCollins with Simon & Schuster; Sandy ruined 9,000 books in a New York store; you'll never guess which two series have sold the most Kindle books.
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As inspectors finish up their post-Sandy assessments, we're reminded again of the overall effects Sandy had on New York.
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We think we may have found the award for the grossest repercussion that Hurricane Sandy has left behind: the damaged New Jersey plant dumping hundreds of millions of gallons of partially-treated human waste water into the New York Harbor.
New York Daily News on Cuomo's climate change vision, ClimateWire on the state of the electric grid, The Guardian on rats, Grist on Chicago's urban farming plans, and SFGate on Greenbuild
President Obama went to Staten Island in New York City Thursday to see the ongoing recovery efforts from Hurricane Sandy. There were a lot of hugs, but the mood was not quite as uplifting as his tour right after the storm struck.
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Today's unemployment claims figures are out and they're huge: 439,000—that's the highest number in a year and a half, and close to an 80,000 jump from the previous week. And if you ask anyone, it's because of the natural disaster that hit the East Coast two weeks ago.
Today in books and publishing: Digital page-turning now belongs to Apple; Roth tells young novelist, "quit while you're ahead"; Google can scan books super fast; R.I.P. Jack Gilbert.
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