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Who are in New York City on holiday now?

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Destruction: Cars floating after being pushed out a flooded basement in the city during last night's battering

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Beached: A 168-foot water tanker, the John B. Caddell, sits on the shore where it ran aground on Front Street in the Stapleton neighborhood of New York's Staten Island

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Fleet in the floods: Yellow cabs in a parking lot are surrounded by water after Superstorm Sandy struck Hoboken, New Jersey

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Trashed: Cars float up from a car garage in a mixture of floodwater and gasoline in lower Manhattan as workers begin the process of pumping out the mess
 
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Wrecked: A man looks at an uprooted tree which fell on a car when Superstorm Sandy swept through the Brooklyn borough of New York

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A firefighter leaves a destroyed home in Pasadena, Maryland, where the homeowner was killed overnight when a tree fell on his home during superstorm Sandy

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Battered: This home in Manalapan, Florida, was ripped up and ravaged by Sandy when the storm passed through

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Two women shop for groceries by torchlight in the Tribeca neighbourhood of New York after power outages caused large parts of the city to fall into darkness
 
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Dangerous: A cordon is put up around scaffolding which collapsed in New York after Superstorm Sandy caused widespread damage in the city

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Barrier: Water and debris block a section of South Street in lower Manhattan, in New York, which had been in the storm's path

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Toppled: Pictures from Washington DC show how the wind has grabbed hold of trees and ripped them out by the trunk (above and below)

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Crushed: This home on the Florida coast is surveyed by two men astonished by the scale of destruction Sandy has left
 
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Broken home: A man and child look in disbelief at a collapsed house in the Cosey Beach neighborhood of East Haven, Connecticut

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Damaged: A building that had its facade ripped off by Hurricane Sandy - beds and radiators can be seen in the block

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Wrecked: A construction site sinks into a large hole on South Street Seaport - the clean-up operation is expected to cost over £12 billion
 
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Transformation: A subway station now resembles a river in one of the US's largest cities

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Submerged: The lobby of Verizon's Corporate headquarters in Manhattan. The headquarter houses executive offices as well as some of the company's key telecom equipment that supports services to New York's financial district

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Operation clean-up: Debris litters a flooded street in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn after the city awakens to the affects of Hurricane Sandy
 
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Rubble: People in Atlantic City view the area where a 2000-foot section of the 'uptown' boardwalk was destroyed by flooding

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Sand and debris cover a part of town near the ocean in New Jersey after serious flooding ravaged the coastline

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Chaos: A boat moved by gushing waters rests on the tracks at Metro-North's Ossining Station on the Hudson Line

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Sweep up: Workers clean up sheets of blown-out glass in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy - many store faces took a beating from the strong winds
 
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Water, water everywhere: An aerial view of flooding on the bay side of Seaside, New Jersey

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Rescued: Hospital workers evacuate a patient Deborah Dadlani from NYU Langone Medical Center during Hurricane Sandy

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Split: The wall of this house in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, shows how hard the East Coast has been pummeled by Sandy

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Smashed: A giant tree crosses a street, leaving it impassable for any vehicles in Ridgewood, New Jersey
 
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Flooded homes in Tuckerton, N.J., on Oct. 30 after Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the southern New Jersey coastline on Oct. 29. (US Coast Guard via AFP/Getty Images)

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Cars floating in a flooded subterranean basement following Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 30 in the Financial District of New York City. The storm has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard. President Barack Obama has declared the situation a 'major disaster' for large areas of the US East Coast including New York City.
 
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A resident looks over the remains of burned homes in the Breezy Point neighborhood of New York City on Oct. 30. Millions of people across the eastern United States awoke on Tuesday to scenes of destruction wrought by monster storm Sandy, which knocked out power to huge swathes of the nation's most densely populated region, swamped New York City's subway system and submerged streets in Manhattan's financial district.

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Sveinn Storm, owner of Storm Bros. Ice Cream Factory measures the flood waters outside his store in Annapolis, Md., on Oct. 30 in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy that passed through the East Coast.
 
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People are evacuated from a neighborhood in Little Ferry, N.J., one day after Hurricane Sandy slammed the East Coast.

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Zoe Jurusik (20) paddle-boards down a flooded city street in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in Bethany Beach, Del., on Oct. 30. Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of monster storm Sandy on Tuesday as New York City and a wide swathe of the eastern United States struggled with epic flooding and massive power outages.
 
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US Route 30, the White Horse Pike, one of three major approaches to Atlantic City, N.J., is covered with water from Absecon Bay in this view looking west, during the approach of Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 29. Hurricane Sandy began battering the US East Coast on Monday with fierce winds and driving rain, as the monster storm shut down transportation, shuttered businesses and sent thousands scrambling for higher ground hours before the worst was due to strike.

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A parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded on Oct. 30 as a result of superstorm Sandy in Hoboken, N.J.
 
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Boats cluster together at a marina in Brant Beach, on Long Beach Island of the New Jersey shore a day after superstorm Sandy blew across the New Jersey barrier islands on Oct 29

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Debris floats around a house pushed off its foundation in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy in East Haven, Conn., on Oct. 30. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.
 
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The darkened skyline of Manhattan is seen on Oct. 30 one day after Hurricane Sandy hit. Life ground to a virtual halt in parts of southern Manhattan still without power, but many New Yorkers seemed to be taking the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy in stride.

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Water rushes into the Carey Tunnel (previously the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel), caused by Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 29 in the Financial District of New York City.

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Medical workers assist a patient into an ambulance during an evacuation of New York City University's Tisch Hospital on Oct. 29. The New York City hospital is moving out more than 200 patients after its backup generator failed when the power was knocked out by the storm.
 
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Hurricane Sandy is seen churning over the Bahamas in this NASA handout satellite image taken on Oct. 25.

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The HMS Bounty, a 180-foot sailboat, is shown submerged in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C., on Oct. 29. Of the 16-person crew, the Coast Guard rescued 14, recovered a woman and is searching for the captain of the vessel.

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An ambulance is stuck in over a foot of snow off Highway 33 West, near Belington, W.Va., on Oct. 30. Superstorm Sandy buried parts of West Virginia under more than a foot of snow cutting power to at least 264,000 customers and closing dozens of roads.
 
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Brannen Hinerman (19) hangs on for dear life as buddy James Turner goes airborne on suicide hill at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., on Oct. 30. The North Carolina mountains got a taste of winter as superstorm Sandy brought high winds, freezing temperatures and several inches of snow to the mountains.

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A visitor in a bathrobe does a cartwheel in the rain while visiting Times Square in New York City on Oct. 29. As Hurricane Sandy aimed straight for them, promising to hammer the place they live with lashing winds and extensive flooding, New Yorkers seemed to be all about nonchalance on Monday morning, an attitude that didn't last into the afternoon.

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A girl jumps off the porch of a cottage along Roy Carpenter's Beach that was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in Matunuck, R.I., on Oct. 30. Millions of people across the eastern United States awoke on Tuesday to scenes of destruction wrought by monster storm Sandy, which knocked out power to huge swathes of the nation's most densely populated region.
 
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Glenn Heartley pulls on a rope attached to his car in preparation for getting it towed from a creek in Chincoteague, Va., on Oct. 30. Heartley and his wife were swept off the road into the shallow creek during superstorm Sandy's arrival.

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A worker steadies the bow of a boat prior to its removal from the water for safekeeping at Ponquogue Marine Basin in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy in Hampton Bays, N.Y., on Oct. 28.
 
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