Newly Un-Flooded New York Subway Still Looking Pretty Horrible

In the past week, New York's stricken subway has undergone an impressive ecological transformation. It's no longer an aquatic playground for slippery eels and swimming rats, but a damp tunnel network that a city could use to, you know, run a train through.

Credit the MTA's furiously occupied worker-moles for drying out the system. As of today, the post-Sandy subway map is free of crippling service outages save for areas in Rockaway and around Battery Park. The LIRR started running again on Sunday, as did PATH trains between New Jersey's Newark Penn and Harrison stations into midtown Manhattan. Compare that to the subway blackout just after the mega-storm hit, when everything below 34th Street was out of commission and ample chunks of the other boroughs went dark, as well.