New Yorkers dug out from Hurricane Sandy's carnage this morning, following a hellish night of death and destruction brought on by the killer storm.
Gotham residents, nearly 1 million of them without any power, woke up to streets littered with uprooted trees and downed power lines.
At least 250,000 Manhattan residents had no power at the height of the storm, most of them living below 39th Street.
AP
Firefighters look up at the facade of a four-story building on 14th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan that collapsed onto the sidewalk on Monday.
In one of the most horrific deaths reported so far, a Queens woman was electrocuted last night after she got too close to downed power lines on her block, horrified neighbors said.
The 22-year-old victim stepped outside her 105-05 105th Ave home, in South Richmond Hill, at 8:30 p.m. to snap pictures, neighbors said.
The block's power line had fallen near the car of across-the-street neighbor Mahendra Chetram, 35, and he rushed outside to move his vehicle.
"I looked out my window and I saw the girl across the street taking pictures of the live wire sparking near my car, so I ran outside to move my car," Chetram said.
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"I jumped in [the car]. She was still taking pictures and as I backed down the street, [then] I heard a loud shriek and It looks just like how it does in the movies. Her body was gyrating, smoke was coming from her and within 25 seconds she was out, No movement."
In Staten Island, an off-duty NYPD officer was killed while trying to rescue his family from their flooding South Beach home.
Staten Island was particularly hard hit, with many blocks of the Great Kills, New Dorp and South Beach so damaged that first responders struggled to get to victims.
A countless number of cars were completely submerged or floated down the block.
At least 10 other people in the New York City area died died due to the storm -- three adults in Queens, a teenage girl on Staten Island, two on Long Island, one in Ulster County and three kids in Westchester.
The storm, its winds flirting with 100 mph, unleashed a wave of devastation from which it could take weeks to recover.
In flooded lower Manhattan, water gushed into the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and cars were floating in the streets.
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