Firefighters work at Breezy Point in the New York City borough of Queens, Oct. 30, 2012. Record winds and flooding from superstorm Sandy hammered New York on Monday, killing at least two people and leaving wide sections of the city without power. The superstorm, which put a huge swath of Manhattan from Midtown to Battery park in darkness, also forced hospital evacuations and left a huge construction crane dangling in the powerful gales 75 stories over a posh thoroughfare. [Xinhua]