"New York City has always been a place of haves and have-nots, carved by divides both real and imaginary. It emerged as a global metropolis not just in the rise of its gilded quarters, tony boulevards and stately townhouses but in the swarming chaos of its slums, sweatshops and teeming tenements. Daily existence here is a journey through multiple New Yorks: entrenched ethnic neighborhoods and chic bourgeois melting pots, areas worn down by poverty and marginalization and others resplendent in their power and privilege. But ever since Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge on Oct. 29 flooded a major power substation on 14th Street, there are only two New Yorks: a city of light and a city of dark." http://ti.me/SmworB

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