United States: Hurricane Sandy has drowned the New York I love

Guardian: New York is the city I love best, and I'm trying to imagine it from a distance tonight. The lurid, flash-lit instagram images of floating cars in Alphabet City or water pouring out of the East River into Dumbo, the reports of bridges to the Howard Beach submerging and facades falling off apartment houses – it all stings. It's as horrible in its very different way as watching 9/11. But it's the subways I keep coming back to, trying to see in my mind's eye what must be a dark, scary struggle to...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/30/hurricane-sandy-drowned-new-york-city