Workers begin the arduous task of cleaning and repairing the Verizon Headquarters building as well as telecommunications infrastructure located at West and Barclay Streets in Lower Manhattan on Saturday Nov. 3, 2012. The building took on heavy flooding during the storm surge brought ashore by Hurricane Sandy. (Damon Dahlen, AOL)
A stairwell going into the basement of the Verizon headquarters in Lower Manhattan which was filled with flood waters from Hurricane Sandy has slowly seen the waters recede as generators work night and day to remove the corrosive salt water. Workers begin the arduous task of cleaning and repairing the Verizon Headquarters building as well as telecommunications infrastructure located at West and Barclay Streets in Lower Manhattan on Saturday Nov. 3, 2012. (Damon Dahlen, AOL)