South Street seaport a 'ghost town' months after Sandy
Photo credit: AP | A backhoe is driven past the shuttered Brookstone store on Fulton St. Nearly four months after Superstorm Sandy hit, the historic cobblestone streets near the water's edge in lower Manhattan are eerily deserted, and among local business owners, there is a pervasive sense that their plight has been ignored by the rest of Manhattan. (Feb. 7, 2013)
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The historic cobblestone streets and 19th-century mercantile buildings near the water's edge in lower Manhattan are eerily deserted, a neighborhood silenced by Superstorm Sandy.
Just blocks from the tall-masted ships that rise above South Street Seaport, the windows of narrow brick apartment buildings are still crisscrossed with masking tape left by their owners before the storm. Store interiors...
