AlHijjah 15, 1433, Oct 31, 2012, SPA -- The New York City subway system will reopen with limited operations Thursday, four days after it was shut down ahead of superstorm Sandy, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. Cuomo said at a press conference that limited service on suburban commuter rail lines serving Long Island to the east and Westchester County and Connecticut to the north will resume later Wednesday. The governor said the restored subway service would be supplemented by a “bus bridge" between Manhattan and Brooklyn because four of the seven tunnels connecting the boroughs under the East River are flooded. Three of the seven are now clear. Cuomo said that there would be no subway service south of Thirty-Fourth Street in Manhattan. The governor said that officials faced an enormous task to restore not only transportation services but other portions of the city's infrastructure damaged when Sandy swept a record storm surge of almost 4 meters over southern Manhattan and other low-lying neighborhoods. “It was frightening. It was frightening. It looked apocalyptic," Cuomo said of the flooding he witnessed late Monday at the height of the storm.
