Officials announced a "look and leave" policy which will allow residents, homeowners and others with proper identification to get on the island to check on their property.
With Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani out of the presidential race, New York is back in the role it has played in presidential elections for the past 20 years.
A lot of very smart people did a lot of very stupid things to cause this financial crisis. But the reason is no mystery. They got greedy. The government, meanwhile, was deaf to years of warnings that this would happen.