Volunteers knock on doors at the Sand Castle houses to provide food and supplies to residents who continue to live without power in the Far Rockaways section of Queens, on November 10, 2012. Despite power returning to many neighborhoods in the metropolitan area, residents of the Far Rockaways continue to live without power and heat due to damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. #

Muddy handprints mark the front door of a home that was heavily damaged by Sandy, on November 13, 2012 in New York City. More than two weeks after the devastating storm, Staten Island continues to recover. #

MTA employees work around the clock to remove seawater out of the L train's tunnel under the East River in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, in New York, on November 5, 2012. Trains started running through the L train tunnel linking Brooklyn and Manhattan on November 8, 2012. #

Examples of the damage sustained by the South Ferry station on the New York City Subway's 1 Line. The station was flooded during Hurricane Sandy. These are a water-logged, damaged escalator and stairwell leading to the platform. #

In this aerial photograph, restoration work continues in Mantoloking, New Jersey, Friday, November 9, 2012, after the region was pounded by Sandy. Monday's storm surge from Sandy cut a path through the town from the Atlantic Ocean to the bayside. #

A New York Police Department van drives along a street soaked with rain and covered with debris in a Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, New York,on November 7, 2012, as a nor'easter aggravated already bad conditions in the wake of Sandy. #

Residents walk past a destroyed section of the boardwalk at the base of Lincoln Boulevard as Long Islanders continue their clean up efforts in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy in Long Beach, New York, on November 9, 2012. New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has said that the economic loss and damage to homes and business caused by Sandy could total $33 billion in New York, according to published reports. #

Rick Foite, a lineman with Harlan Electrical Construction from Buffalo, New York, repairs power lines that were brought down from the effects of Superstorm Sandy in Sea Cliff, New York, on November 7, 2012. #

Glenda Moore (top center) watches as New York sanitation department workers carry a casket containing the bodies of her two sons after their funeral at the St. Rose of Lima Catholic church in Brooklyn, on November 9, 2012. Brandon Moore, 2, and his brother Connor Moore, 4, were swept away from the arms of their mother Glenda as she fled with them from Superstorm Sandy floodwaters in New York's Staten Island borough, while seeking safety with family in Brooklyn the night of the storm. She is married to New York sanitation worker Damian Moore, and dozens of workers and officials from the sanitation department attended the funeral ceremony. #

A repair worker is silhouetted by a police spotlight as he walks down a darkened street during a nor'easter snowstorm in the Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, on November 7, 2012. #

Volunteers and those seeking assistance stand outside a YANA (You are Never Alone) outreach center, currently housing Occupy Sandy, a volunteer aid organization in the Rockaway Park neighborhood of Queens, on November 8, 2012. Along with other groups, Occupy Sandy has sprung up in an effort to bring goods and services to people left in need in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. #

Karilyn Taylor walks up 11 flights of steps with only her flashlight to guide her in the Red Hook Houses in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York, on November 12, 2012. Some of the buildings in the complex are still without power and heat from Superstorm Sandy two weeks ago. #

Young Jahzier Barksdale is lit by a video game as he plays in the Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn, on November 9, 2012. Residents were entering into a second week without heat or electricity. #

Community pet rescuer Kim Ruiz stands among the cats, five of whom were rescued during Superstorm Sandy, and dogs she currently houses in her unheated apartment without electricity in the Ocean Bay public housing projects in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, on November 9, 2012. #

A huge pile of debris stacked up in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, on November 12, 2012. Clean-up continues two weeks after the region was pounded by Superstorm Sandy. #

People stand on the remains of the infrastructure of the Rockaway Beach boardwalk, which was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy on October 29, in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of Queens, on November 10, 2012. #

A gas line forms for free fuel from a tanker in the Far Rockaways section of Queens, on November 10, 2012. Despite power returning to many neighborhoods in the metropolitan area, residents of the Far Rockaways continue to live without power and heat due to damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. #

Arlene D'Amico, of Edison, New Jersey, tears up ruined flooring in her small summer house in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, on November 12, 2012. Residents of Seaside Heights were allowed back in their homes for a few hours Monday, two weeks after the region was pounded by Sandy. #

An insurance claims adjuster climbs the entrance to a house in the Breezy Point neighborhood which was left devastated by Hurricane Sandy in Queens, on November 12, 2012. #

A boy rides his bike in front of a boat that became lodged on shore by the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy in the Annadale neighborhood of Staten Island, on November 12, 2012. #

U.S. Marines of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit and sailors assigned to the USS Wasp (LHD 1), walk to a landing craft after assisting residents in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, at Rockaway Beach, New York, on November 9, 2012. #

Mike Duvalle points out a high water line as he stands in the lower level of his home in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of Queens, on November 7, 2012. Duvalle was working to secure the property and close up openings to the building left in the wake of Sandy, as a powerful nor'easter approached. #

Cabinet maker Rick Churchill does a little work by window light at his business in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York, on November 12, 2012. Churchill's studio has been without power since Sandy and much his work depends on machines that need electricity. #

Ariel Nadelberg of Brooklyn pours hot soup in a cup at a parking lot that has become a makeshift station where those in need can get food and clothing in a Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, on November 5, 2012. #

Mac Baker (right) sits near niece Nytaisha Baker (left), next to pots of water she heats on the floor with small flames for a bit of warmth in her unheated apartment without electricity in the Ocean Bay public housing projects in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, on November 9, 2012. #

Edna Perez cries while explaining what the living conditions have been in her home in Bay Towers since Hurricane Sandy hit, in the Rockaway Park neighborhood of Queens, on November 11, 2012. She has been without power since the storm hit. #

Thousands of food and clothing items are organized by Occupy Sandy volunteers in the school gymnasium at the St. Camillus Roman Catholic Church in the Rockaway Park neighborhood of Queens, on November 11, 2012. #

Twelve days after Halloween, children participate in the annual Ragamuffin Halloween Parade, which was postponed by Hurricane Sandy, in Hoboken, New Jersey, on November 12, 2012. #

Alex Vila, 2, carries a box of cereal after visiting an aid station for people affected by Hurricane Sandy in Brooklyn, on November 8, 2012. Household supplies and groceries were distributed to Red Hook neighborhood residents by Catholic Charities at the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary church. #

Crews tackle piles of debris as clean-up continues where a large section of the iconic boardwalk was washed away in the heavily damaged Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, on November 10, 2012. #

The remains of the Star Jet roller coaster, formerly part of the Casino Pier amusement park, stranded in the ocean in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, on November 11, 2012. #