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Robert Schiavelli was slapped with two summonses for "disturbing the peace" -- after police received complaints from his neighbor that his loud laughs could be heard across the driveway.

Ten students and two teachers chaperoning the Parkview Arts/Magnet High School debate team remain in Brooklyn at the New York Brooklyn Bridge Marriot Hotel after Hurricane Sandy cancelled 10,000 flights and shut down the city's train and subway systems.

New York City awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater and high winds slammed into the city, destroying buildings and flooding tunnels.

Two major airports reopened and the floor of the New York Stock Exchange came back to life Wednesday, while across the river in New Jersey, National Guardsmen rushed to rescue flood victims and fires still raged two days after Superstorm Sandy.