Editor's Letter: The Long Recovery

Potent media images remind us that many New Yorkers continue to struggle with the aftershock of Sandy

As a New Yorker, I’m finding it very hard to feel mentally recovered from Superstorm Sandy’s effects, with parts of the city still without power and many of our neighbors and fellow citizens continuing to be so firmly in the grip of real distress.

Powerfully underscoring that unsettled feeling was the above-the-fold photo by Reuters’ Adrees Latif on the front page of The New York Times last Tuesday showing a young woman in what appeared to be everyday street clothes any one of us would wear on the subway on our way to work, making her way through the blackened and twisted wreckage of what had been a Breezy Point neighborhood.

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