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| Firefighters in the Breezy Point section of Queens. |
The NYC subway system spans 468 stations and over 600 miles of track, pulsing through four of New York City’s five boroughs as the great uniter of the area. Everyone pays the same fare. Everyone has a preferred line. Everyone curses its fussy weekend service.
And almost everyone uses the subway. Until it goes dark. It will be at least four days before anything resembling full service can be restored.
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In Battery Park, seen Tuesday, the storm surge exceeded 13 feet.
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Service in some places will come on in the next day or so, but you should not expect the vast bulk of people who do not have service today to get service before the weekend,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Tuesday of electrical service. The entire cities of Newark and Jersey City were wothout power.
The New York City Marathon will go on as scheduled on Sunday,The New York Stock Exchange will open at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Partial bus service began running on Tuesday afternoon, on a Sunday schedule, and fares are free for the remainder of the day. More service is expected to be restored on Wednesday. The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, a beloved if sometimes overly boisterous New York City tradition for nearly four decades, has been canceled for Wednesday, parade officials announced Tuesday afternoon.