A tunnel under Battery Park in lower Manhattan was flooded early Tuesday.

Mike Biszko waded through knee-deep water flooding Bridge Street in Westport, Mass., after checking on his home.

Brothers Chris (left), Steven, and Richie Hartnett made their way home after checking out the flooding in Westport.

Lower Manhattan, as seen from Brooklyn, was dark.

Streets were flooded under the Manhattan Bridge in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Transformers exploded in lower Manhattan on Tuesday.

Another view of a transformer exploding.

A row of houses flooded at Grassy Sound in North Wildwood, N.J.

The Inlet section of Atlantic City, N.J., was covered in water. A piece of the boardwalk washed away earlier in the day.

A surveillance camera captured the PATH station in Hoboken, N.J., as water poured in.

The HMS Bounty, a replica tall ship, sunk in the Atlantic Ocean near Hatteras, N.C.

Vehicles are submerged on 14th Street in New York.

Firefighters evacuated an apartment building in New York after its front wall collapsed.

A darkened street in New York.

Water rushed into an underground parking garage in New York’s Financial District.

Water rose to the porch at the Paquachuck Inn in Westport.

Waves crashed against homes on Turner Road in Scituate.

A car navigated a flooded Church Street in Woods Hole.

A man drove around a fallen tree on Locust Street in Falmouth.

Waves crashed over a jetty in Scituate.

Sandy is seen Monday as it approached landfall on the East Coast.

A crew worked to remove a downed tree on Rockdale Street in New Bedford.

Oceanside Drive was littered with debris in Scituate.

Jamison Orr watched the waves come up through the dock at the Clam Shack in Falmouth Harbor.

Joe Gallion of Falmouth checked out the surf on Menauhant Road in Falmouth.

Chris Losordo carried his father, Vin, across a flooded road in Falmouth.

Alison Tames of Plum Island held her dog, Zoey, amid the high winds. "She's cold and miserable," Tames said.

Jillian Webb (left) and Arianna Corso, of Dennis, in Chatham as Hurricane Sandy pelted them with wind and sand.

Snow had fallen in Beckley, W.Va.

Commuters waited in Boston’s North Station for Amtrak and MBTA service Monday morning.