Hurricane Sandy Flood Damage Maps from New York Times

I've been admiring the great work that the New York Times has been doing by not only telling about but showing through map visualizations the extent of damage brought on by Hurricane Sandy. The maps above and below are from Surveying the Destruction Caused by Hurricane Sandy.

When you click on a rectangle on the Flooding in NYC map, you'll get something like above from Brighton Beach NY which shows building footprints colored with the height of the water surge and photos of damages. These maps went live in mid- ot late-November and didn't include damage from New Jersey.

But now you can click on Regional Damage and you have the map above which gives some insight into the extent of damage across NJ and NY. And then below is a zoomed-in look at Long Branch/Monmouth Beach, NJ, showing destroyed and damaged structures and photos of the area.

As always, impressive work and effort by the cartographers of the Times. Here is the most recent article On Ravaged Coastline, It's Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now. There was a slick graphic that accompanied the paper article but it seems to not yet be uploaded on to the Times online website.