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The storm later moved across Pennsylvania on a predicted path toward New York State and Canada.
At the height of the disaster, more than 8.2 million lost electricity - some as far away as Michigan. Nearly a quarter of those without power were in New York, where lower Manhattan's usually bright lights remained dark for a second night.
"We will get through the days ahead by doing what we always do in tough times - by standing together, shoulder to shoulder, ready to help a neighbor, comfort a stranger and get the city we love back on its feet," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.| In darkened NYC, safety on the list of concerns | |
| Faced with the prospect of days without power and swaths of the city plunged into darkness at night, police brought in banks of lights and boosted patrols to reassure victims of a monster storm that they won't be victims of crime. | |
| Region hit by Sandy struggles to resume daily life | |
| People in the coastal corridor battered by superstorm Sandy took the first cautious steps to reclaim routines upended by the disaster, even as rescuers combed neighborhoods strewn with debris and scarred by floods and fire. | |
| Skeleton found when historic Conn. tree uprooted | |
| New Haven police say superstorm Sandy has revealed a skeleton beneath the town green that may have been there since Colonial times. | |
| Sandy shuts down Northeast air travel | |
| Superstorm Sandy grounded more than 18,000 flights across the Northeast and the globe, and it will take days before travel gets back to normal. | |
| Superstorm Sandy's extremes, by the numbers | |
| Hurricane Sandy, after killing at least 69 people in the Caribbean, streamed northward, merged with two wintry weather systems and socked the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes with wind, waves, rain and snow. Some figures associated with Sandy's rampage through the U.S., as of Tuesday evening: | |
| ConEd prepped for big storm, got even bigger one | |
| Blame a very high tide driven by a full moon, the worst storm surge in nearly 200 years, and the placement of underground electrical equipment in flood-prone areas for the most extensive storm-related power outage in New York City's history. | |
| NJ starts turning to rebuilding after storm | |
| Even as some barrier islands are mostly cut off and millions in New Jersey are without electricity, Gov. Chris Christie said that the state should start thinking about recovery and rebuilding after hybrid storm Sandy ravaged the shore and did damage in all corners of the state. | |
| Romney faces scrutiny on aid in storm's wake | |
| There's nothing like a natural disaster to test the depth of politicians' preference for small government. | |
| Obama visits storm victims while Romney campaigns | |
| President Barack Obama, locked in a fierce re-election bid, is emphasizing his incumbent's role for a third straight day, skipping battleground states to visit victims of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey, a state he's confident of winning. The president's actions have forced his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, to walk a careful line and make tough choices. | |
| Asian markets gain in face of US superstorm | |
| Asian markets gained Wednesday after Wall Street stayed closed for a second day as a hurricane ravaged the East Coast of the United States. | |
| Oil prices rise on impact of superstorm hitting US | |
| Oil prices rose Wednesday after a fierce superstorm that caused havoc across the northeastern U.S. and was threatening to inflict more damage inland. | |
| In NYC, the show goes on, even if sans audience | |
| For the second night in a row, superstorm Sandy and its aftermath forced David Letterman to live out that performer's nightmare: Telling jokes to a vacant theater, or as he called it, "a big ol' empty barn." | |
| National Guard comes to aid of flooded Hoboken, NJ | |
| The New Jersey National Guard arrived Tuesday evening in Hoboken to help residents of the heavily flooded city on the Hudson River across from New York City. | |
| Sandy prompts harrowing NYC hospital evacuation | |
| Evoking harrowing memories of Hurricane Katrina, 300 patients were evacuated floor by floor from a premier hospital that lost generator power at the height of superstorm Sandy. | |
| Crippled NYC subways could hamper storm recovery | |
| The floodwaters that poured into New York's deepest subway tunnels may pose the biggest obstacle to the city's recovery from the worst natural disaster in the transit system's 108-year history. | |
| Steelers planning on business as usual vs. Giants | |
| Mike Tomlin doesn't expect Hurricane Sandy to derail the National Football League. | |
| Professional leagues plan to play after superstorm | |
| With much of the Northeast immersed in the recovery from Superstorm Sandy's devastating blow, the NFL and NBA plan to carry on with their schedules. | |
| NYC Marathon planning moves forward after Sandy | |
| The 26 miles might be the easy part. | |
| Sandy takes out 25 pct of cell towers | |
| Superstorm Sandy knocked out a quarter of the cell towers in an area spreading across 10 states, and the situation could get worse, federal regulators said Tuesday. | |
| Wall Street back in business after storm shutdown | |
| The New York Stock Exchange will open on Wednesday - because it had to open. | |