Blackout: The skyline of lower Manhattan sits in darkness after a preventive power outage in New York on Monday night
Empire State: The New York skyline remains dark on Monday as seen from the Williamsburg neighbourhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York
Lights out: Lower Manhattan goes dark during the hybrid storm Sandy on Monday, viewed from the Brooklyn borough of New York
Skyline: Brooklyn Bridge Park pictured here after it flooded following the arrival of Sandy, which has made landfall on the East Coast of the US
Bang: This image from video provided by Dani Hart shows what appears to be a transformer exploding in lower Manhattan as seen from a building rooftop in Brooklyn
Bright light: This photo shows what appear to be transformers exploding after much of lower Manhattan lost power during Superstorm Sandy in New York
Flooding: Water rushes into the Carey Tunnel (previously the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel), caused by Sandy on Monday night in the financial district of New York
Gushing water: Sea water floods the Ground Zero construction site on Monday in New York
No go area: An uprooted tree blocks 7th street near Avenue D in the East Village as a result of high winds from Sandy on Monday in Manhattan, New York
No train service: Veronica De Souza posted this extraordinary picture ('via ninjapito') on Twitter of the 86th Street station with water above the platform
No lights: A power outage is seen on Monday in Manhattan, New York, with Hurricane Sandy threatening 50million people in the Mid-Atlantic area of the US
No movement: Vehicles are submerged on 14th Street near the Consolidated Edison power plant on Monday in Manhattan, New York
Downed: A fallen tree lays along a darkened Sixth Avenue in Chelsea during a blackout caused by rising river waters as Hurricane Sandy made its approach in New York
Residents in New York City spent much of yesterday trying to salvage normal routines, jogging and snapping pictures of the water while officials warned the worst of the storm had not hit.
By yesterday evening, a record 13ft storm surge was threatening Manhattan's southern tip, howling winds had left a crane hanging from a high-rise block, and utilities deliberately darkened part of downtown Manhattan to avoid storm damage.
‘It's really a complete ghost town now,’ said Stephen Weisbrot, from a powerless 10th-floor apartment in lower Manhattan. Mayor Bloomberg said the area without power in Manhattan is roughly south of 34th Street.
Underwater: A vehicle is submerged on 14th Street near the Consolidated Edison power plant on Monday night in New York
Fire rescue: An FDNY inflatable is prepared for launch along 14th street east of Avenue B where water has trapped people in the wake of Hurricane Sandy
Journey: Graphic showing the current position of the superstorm after it swept up the US East Coast
Water lapped over the seawall in Battery Park City, flooding rail yards, subway tracks, tunnels and roads. Rescue workers floated bright orange rafts down flooded downtown streets, while police officers rolled slowly down the street with loudspeakers telling people to go home.
‘Now it's really turning into something,’ said Brian Damianakes, taking shelter in an ATM vestibule and watching a rubbish bin blow down the street in Battery Park before the storm surge.
Mayor Bloomberg said last night that the surge was expected to recede by midnight, after exceeding an original expectation of 11ft.
'We knew that this was going to be a very dangerous storm and the storm has met our expectations,’ he said. ‘This is a once-in-a-long-time storm.’
Submerged: Instagram user 'Jesse and Greg' posted this incredible picture of East Village flooding in Manhattan, New York
Above waist high: A man wearing a snorkel is seen wading through the water in New York City on Monday night
Ship: This photo by Dylan Patrick shows flooding along the Westside Highway near the USS Intrepid, background centre, as Sandy moves through the area
Underwater: The surge from New York's East River has flooded East 20th Street, turning the road into a river
Sailboats rock in choppy water at a dock along the Hudson River Greenway as one thousand more troops have been drafted in
Leaving: Guests in the lobby of Le Parker Meridien hotel just south of Central Park prepare to move to other hotels after a nearby construction crane collapsed
Cars were flooded in the Financial District of New York as Hurricane Sandy threatens 50million people on the East Coast
As flood waters surge, expected to rise to 10ft, nearly all bridges and tunnels into and out of New York are closed to the public
A person holds onto to a flooded car as the flood water rises in New York
Isolated: Jane's Carousel, the vintage merry-go-round in Brooklyn Bridge Park, in the DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) section of Brooklyn, is 'basically an island now', Instagram user Andjelicaaa said
Shortly after the massive storm made landfall in southern New Jersey, Consolidated Edison cut power deliberately to about 6,500 customers in downtown Manhattan to avert further damage. Then, huge swaths of the city went dark, losing power to 250,000 customers in Manhattan, Con Ed spokesman Chris Olert said.
The New York University Langone Medical Center in midtown Manhattan was this morning evacuating 215 patients to local hospitals by ambulance after their backup power generator failed following the power outage.
Late last night, a bright orange explosion lit up the night sky on the east side of lower Manhattan, near a Con Ed substation. ‘It sounded like the Fourth of July,’ said Mr Weisbrot.
Another 1 million customers lost power earlier on Monday in New York City, the northern suburbs and coastal Long Island, where floodwaters swamped cars, downed trees and put neighbourhoods under water.
Flood waters have overwhelmed the entrance of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel as nearly all bridges and tunnels into and out of New York are closed to the public
Flood water rushes into a below-ground carpark in New York's Financial District
Three friends make their way along a flooded street as the beginning effects of Hurricane Sandy are felt in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn
A crane collapsed on a 75-story building on West 57th Street and two alarms were raised to warn people of impending danger
People walk by sand bags in front of a building in Times Square as Hurricane Sandy begins to affect the area
Breaking through: Waves wash over the sea wall near high tide at Battery Park in New York on Monday morning
Flood: East River already creeping over at the end of Java Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where a woman was hit by a fallen tree earlier
She's coming: A satellite image taken Sunday morning by the National Hurricane Center shows Sandy heading north
Businesses are closed and pedestrians walk through mostly deserted streets in the Soho neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, right, as the Hudson River swells and rises over the banks of the Hoboken, left
The storm had only killed one New York City resident by last night, a man who died when a tree fell on his home in the Flushing section of Queens.
The rains and howling winds, some believed to reach more than 95mph, left a crane hanging off a luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan, causing the evacuation of hundreds from a posh hotel and other buildings. Inspectors were climbing 74 flights of stairs to examine the crane.
The facade of a four-story Manhattan building in the Chelsea neighbourhood crumbled and collapsed suddenly, leaving the lights, couches, cabinets and desks inside visible from the street. No one was hurt, although some of the falling debris hit a car.
On coastal Long Island, floodwaters swamped cars, downed trees and put neighborhoods under water as beachfronts and fishing villages bore the brunt of the storm. A police car was lost rescuing 14 people from the popular resort Fire Island.
Collapse: The face fell off an apartment building at 14th Street and Eighth Avenue Monday night, exposing four apartments to the elements
Cleared out: A shopper in Long Beach in Long Island grabs the few remaining water bottles from the shelves at the Waldbaums grocery store
Flooding: A truck drives through water pushed over a road by Hurricane Sandy in Southampton, New York on Monday as the storm gathers speed
All major U.S. stock and options exchanges will remain closed on Tuesday, as will schools and the subway
The city shut all three of its airports, its subways, schools, stock exchanges, Broadway theatres and closed several bridges and tunnels throughout the day as the weather worsened.
Earlier, some New Yorkers defiantly soldiered on, trying to salvage normal routines and refusing to evacuate, as the mayor ordered 375,000 in low-lying areas to do.
Tanja Stewart and her 7-year-old son, Finn, came from their home in Manhattan's TriBeCa neighborhood to admire the white caps on the Hudson, Finn wearing a pair of binoculars around his neck. ‘I really wanted to see some big waves,’ he said.
Keith Reilly posed in an Irish football jersey for a picture above the rising waters of New York Harbor with the Statue of Liberty in the background. ‘This is not so bad right now,’ said the 25-year-old Reilly.
People take pictures in Battery Park along the Hudson River as Hurricane Sandy, the monster storm bearing down on the U.S. East Coast, approaches
Workers put sand bags out in front of a building in the Financial District as the beginning effects of Hurricane Sandy are felt in downtown New York
New York subways are closed for only the second time in history
Paula Buck carries her dog as she walks along a flooded street while evacuating her apartment as the early effects of Hurricane Sandy are felt in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn
A man takes pictures of the skyline of New York from a park along the Hudson River across from the Empire State Building as rain falls in Hoboken, New Jersey
Waves crash over the bow of a tug boat as it passes near the Statue of Liberty as rough water as a result of Hurricane Sandy churned the waters of New York Harbor
Peter Cusack, center, and Mel Bermudez walk their dogs Teague, left, and Molly, along the Brooklyn waterfront beneath the New York skyline as Hurricane Sandy advances on the city
Some parts of the deserted streets showed early signs of flooding this morning just hours before the worst is expected to hit at 4pm
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