Hurricane Sandy was the deadliest storm of the 2012 Atlantic season and the second-most expensive storm in U.S. history, causing over $68 billion of damage and responsible for nearly 300 deaths in the Caribbean and eastern United States. This essay shows the damage and disruption caused in New York City by the storm, which devastated the coastlines of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island leaving over 30,000 people displaced in New York and New Jersey. The storm also left much of downtown Manhattan, usually one of the most lit areas in the world with the Empire State Building and other New York landmarks there, without power or running water for weeks. The storm's timing, just weeks before the 2012 local, state, and national elections also affected voter turnout in many areas.