A cyclist is cheered on by an assistant during the NY Velocity Roller Race on Friday.

David Sylvester, 50, stands in front of his destroyed house on Hempstead Street in the Midland Beach section of Staten Island, N.Y.

A burned stuffed animal in front of the remains of David Sylvester's home.

A woman and her son scramble over a tree toppled by Superstorm Sandy as she accompanies him to Public School 195 in the Manhattan Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn on Nov. 5, 2012 in New York. Monday was the first day of public school for New York City students following the storm of a week ago.

Fifth grade teacher Millie Ramirez speaks with students about Hurricane Sandy on Nov. 5, 2012, in Manhattan's East Village. Students at Public School 188, like most schools in New York City, returned to class Monday for the first time since the hurricane hit last week. Many students in the area, which suffered severe flooding, were displaced by the storm.

A fifth grade student draws about her experience in Superstorm Sandy on Nov. 5, 2012, in Manhattan's East Village.

People board the NY Waterways ferry with the Manhattan skyline in the background Nov. 1, 2012 in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Commuters wait in a line to board busses into Manhattan in front of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. The line stretched twice around the arena and commuters reported wait times of one to three hours to get on a bus.

Commuters wait in line to board buses to Manhattan outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, Nov. 1.

Commuters wait in line to board buses to Manhattan outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, Nov. 1.

Commuters cram onto a bus to Manhattan outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, Nov. 1.

Motorists sit in heavy traffic while crossing the Robert F. Kennedy Triboro Bridge during the morning rush, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, in the Queens borough of New York.

Morning commuters ride a downtown-bound, west side subway train toward New York's Times Square, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. New York City moved closer to resuming its frenetic pace by getting back some of its vital subways.

A timetable board displays continued cancellations at Penn Station in New York as MTA resumed limited service on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012.

Lisa and Julia Kravchenko pose in their Halloween costumes as they stand in an area ruined by Hurricane Sandy in Staten Island, New York, on October 31, 2012.

New York City residents light jack-o'-lanterns made from cut out pumpkins on Hudson Street in lower Manhattan, October 31, 2012. Hurricane Sandy knocked out power to much of lower Manhattan and has forced many residents to seek shelter in other parts of the city.

Revellers dressed up for Halloween share a laugh in Times Square, New York in the early hours of November 1, 2012.

Lisa Kravchenko stands amongst flood debris in her princess Halloween costume on Oct. 31, 2012 in Staten Island.

A blacked-out lower Manhattan is seen from the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn on Oct. 30. Lower Manhattan is still suffering from widespread power outages and flooding from Hurricane Sandy.

People are illuminated by a light from a car battery as they wait to leave the city on a bus heading to North Carolina from the Chinatown area of New York on Oct. 30.

The dark skyline of lower Manhattan is seen from a rooftop in Brooklyn on Oct. 30.

A dark lower Manhattan is seen from a NY Waterways ferry in Jersey City, N.J., on the morning of Oct. 31.

A parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as a result of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, in Hoboken, NJ.

A playground apparatus stands surrounded by water pushed up by Hurricane Sandy in Bellport, New York, Oct. 30.

A general view from Exchange Place shows the skyline of lower Manhattan in darkness after a preventive power outage caused by giant storm Sandy in New York on Oct. 30.

Burned down houses after a fire caused by Hurricane Sandy, in Breezy Point, Queens, New York City on Oct. 30.

The Empire State Building towers in the background of an apartment building in Chelsea, New York City, with the facade broken off on Oct. 30, the morning after Hurricane Sandy.

Cars floating in a flooded basement following Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 30 in the Financial District of New York City.

The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel is flooded after a tidal surge caused by Hurricane Sandy, on Oct. 30, in Manhattan, New York.

Kim Johnson looks over the destruction near her seaside apartment in Atlantic City, N.J., on Oct. 30, Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.

Deputy Cliff Tice of the Dare County Sheriff's Department walks down damaged and impassable NC 12 leading into Mirlo Beach in Rodanthe, N.C. on Oct. 30.

A street sign is partially buried in sand Tuesday morning, Oct. 30, in Cape May, N.J., after a storm surge from Sandy pushed the Atlantic Ocean over the beach and across Beach Avenue.

A boat floats in the driveway of a home in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, Oct. 30, in Lindenhurst, N.Y.

Looking out the high water in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage in the area on Oct. 29 in New York City.

A keep off the dunes sign is buried Tuesday morning, Oct. 30 in Cape May, N.J., after a storm surge from superstorm Sandy pushed the Atlantic Ocean over the beach and into the streets.

Flooding in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage in the area on October 30, in New York. The storm has claimed at least 27 lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard.

Belt Parkway is one of many roads still closed due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 30, in New York.

Flooding in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage in the area on Oct. 30.

Board walk on the Coney Island section of Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy.

Flooded street in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage in the area on Oct. 30 in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

A flooded board walk in the Williamsburg Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage in the area on Oct. 29, in New York. US Pres. Barack Obama has declared the situation a 'major disaster' for large areas of the US East Coast including New York City, with wide spread power outages and significant flooding in parts of the city.

People survey the damage Tuesday to homes devastated by fire in Breezy Point, Queens.

A resident looks over the remains Tuesday of burned homes in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens, N.Y.

Damage caused by a fire at Breezy Point in Queens, N.Y.

Damage caused by a fire at Breezy Point in Queens, N.Y. is seen Tuesday morning.

A rainbow forms over Breezy Point in the New York City borough of Queens in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday morning.

A statue of Mary is left behind after a fire in Breezy Point, Queens, N.Y.

Ellen Hart is featured on a placard that appeared in the New York City subways during March and April of 1959.

Ellen Hart Sturm, third from right, sings at her restaurant, Ellen's Stardust Diner, on Broadway in New York in 2007. Sturm appeared on "Meet Miss Subways" placards in New York during March and April of 1959.

Marcia Kilpatrick is featured in "The Meet Miss Subways" campaign that appeared in the New York City subways from Nov. 1974-April 1975.

Maureen Walsh is featured in a "Meet Miss Subway" campaign that appeared in the New York City subways from February to August 1968.

Boys dressed as Italian explorer Christopher Columbus march during the annual Columbus Day Parade along Fifth Avenue in New York City on Oct. 8.

School children wave Italian flags as they pass by on a float during the Columbus Day parade in New York, on Oct. 8.

Marching bands participate during the 68th annual Columbus Day parade in New York, Oct. 8. The annual event celebrates the day that Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas in 1492.

Children sit on a giant bust of Christopher Columbus during the 68th annual Columbus Day parade in New York, Oct. 8.

A parade participant is driven on a golf cart during the annual Columbus Day Parade along Fifth Avenue in New York on Oct. 8.