Absentee ballots sent out by overnight mail; plans for tent polling places where needed
MTA chief Joe Lhota honed the art of recovery as Mayor Giuliani’s ‘tough’ problem-solver
Board of Elections rescheduling equipment deliveries, assessing Sandy’s impact on poll sites
Stranded commuters and homeless take refuge
Hurricane Sandy has already claimed one significant casualty in New York City: the boom on the roughly 700-foot-tall crane at the luxury One57 tower in Midtown Manhattan.
With the worst of the storm still to come, the World wanted to know: how are the rest of the city’s cranes likely to fare? How do operators go about securing their equipment hundreds of feet above the ground? And what does the city do to ensure the safety of construction sites?
Government employees report to duty in besieged lower Manhattan
New York greets Hurricane Sandy with fewer shelters and state troopers — and a shorter timeline for evacuation
City misses deadlines for appointing reps under law Bloomberg vetoed
Senate candidate Angus King says New York City mayor’s pledge of Super PAC support came out of the blue
The party-appointed board faces demands for better ballots and public transparency
