Narratively

With office buildings still closed, tenants relocated and tourists out of sight, South Street Seaport's small businesses struggle to survive.

In a Staten Island neighborhood consumed by the floodwaters, long-time residents wait, and wait, to rebuild their shattered houses.

Along a legendary boardwalk, a keeper of the freak-show flame races to reopen by summer.

Sorting through rot and waiting for FEMA, a Manhattan Beach native returns home for the long, slow road to recovery.

Long after the TV crews and volunteer crowds packed up and left, a band of brothers in the Rockaways keeps their eyes fixed on the future.

In one of the safest places to be during the Northeast's "Storm of the Century," overwhelmed business owners both profited and gave a little back.