National Guard soldiers walk past ambulances at Bellevue Hospital during a planned evacuation October 31, 2012 in New York. Bellevue Hospital, the oldest in the country, decided to evacuate its remaining 500 patients on Wednesday after flooding inundated the basement and knocked out electricity.

Mounds of debris pile up in the heavily damaged Rockaway neighborhood in Queens where a large section of the iconic boardwalk was washed away on November 2, 2012 in New York. Limited public transit has returned to New York and most major bridges have reopened, but will require three occupants in the vehicle to pass.

A police officer speaks with a woman attempting to drive onto the Brooklyn Bridge on November 2, 2012 in New York City.

Messages about Hurricane Sandy are posted in the window of a Fishs Eddy housewares store in New York as the city recovers from the effects of the storm.

The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel is flooded after a tidal surge caused by Hurricane Sandy, on October 30, 2012 in Manhattan, New York.

Ground Zero is seen on October 30, 2012 in the Financial District of New York.

A family poses for photos in front of the rising tides on City Island, New York, October 30, 2012.

A truck drives through a flooded street, caused by Hurricane Sandy in the Lower East Side of New York City. The storm has claimed at least 16 lives in the United States and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard.

The closed New York Stock Exchange is barricaded with sand bags during the arrival of Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012 in New York City.