Houston Hall, a new Bavarian-style beer hall, is getting set to open inside a former garage on West Houston St. between Varick St. and Sixth Ave. A contractor at the site a few weeks ago said the huge, exposed, wooden ceiling beams were already in place from the space’s previous use, and that they just [...]

Local bands rocked out at Tammany Hall on Orchard St. last Thursday to raise money for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Erick Lee, of Modern Rivals, at left, joined guitarist Ben Martinez and bassist David Muehlenkamp, of Basement Batman, at right, along with Cultfever, Smokey Robotic and the Jacob Jeffries Band to turn harmonies and guitar [...]

A relatively recently minted attorney’s diploma from N.Y.U. School of Law, class of ’05, was among the detritus left in a pile of soggy garbage outside the tony Zinc Building, at Greenwich, Watts and Canal Sts., the day after Superstorm Sandy.

Sharon Woolums said this skylight looked like a U.F.O. when it came whirling and crashing down on W. Eighth St. across from her apartment after being ripped off a nearby roof on the night of Superstorm Sandy. The photo was taken the following day.

With public schools and many of the usual poll sites off limits on Staten Island after the storm, the borough’s voters cast their ballots in outdoor tents that were hastily set up for the occasion. As it turned out, President Obama won the island in a squeaker, with just more than 50 percent of the [...]

Hurricane Sandy’s 14-foot-high surge fl ooded the Con Edison power plant at E. 13th St., knocking out power for 250,000 customers in Lower Manhattan. The storm left piles of debris and tossed-around cars in its wake on the streets near the power plant along Avenue C. With electricity gone, resourceful members of C-Squat, on the avenue [...]

During the blackout, JCorps, a network of young Jewish volunteers, came to the aid of residents in powerless, high-rise housing developments throughout Downtown. Last Thursday, about 150 JCorps volunteers, led by Rabbi Zalman Paris of Chabad of Tribeca, brought food and water to the Village View complex on First Ave. and Avenue A in the East Village. Over the [...]

Staten Island was savagely slammed by Hurricane Sandy, causing massive property destruction and 23 deaths as of this week. After the storm, Staten Islanders started the painful task of emptying out their flood- and storm-damaged houses. At a relief station, kids ate hot dogs while a woman left homeless huddled for warmth under a pile of [...]