Elijah Jones, 23, sits in his room on the fourth floor of the Redfern Houses. Since the storm, water has condensed on the walls and ceiling because his room is so cold, and mold is starting to grow on his walls. Every day he tries to clean the moisture from his room, but the water keeps coming back. “That’s the only light we got,” he says pointing to a spotlight on a generator in the courtyard. “We just got that like three days ago.” (photo: Finlay MacKay for TIME )

For many in Sandy’s path, the storm itself was terrifying. On Staten Island, houses collapsed, crushing people underneath; in Breezy Point, families fled blocks of homes in flames. But in Redfern, the real struggle began the next day, when it became clear that power wouldn’t return for weeks.

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New York City, 1975 (photo: Joel Meyerowitz)

In honor of the 50th anniversary of when he first took up a camera, photographer Joel Meyerowitz has compiled hundreds of his favorite images for a new two-volume collection.

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D. and S., at M.’s Mother’s Day picnic. May 2007.

Photographer Samantha Box spent six years documenting Sylvia’s Place, NYC’s only emergency shelter for LGBT youth. See the photos here.

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A flotilla surrounds the NASA space shuttle Enterprise as it is carried by barge past the Statue of Liberty up the Hudson River, en route to its permanent home at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on June 6, 2012 in New York City. See more here.

Photographer Dane Shitagi has spent ten years photographing ballerinas, trying to capture the emotions behind their poses and eschewing “dance photography.” He writes about the dancers and their photo sessions on the project’s website, here.

From the series Missing The Train (Downtown N/R at 59th Street), 2002-2006 

Neil Goldberg’s affinity for the collection of lives that is New York City is on view in his solo exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, which has recently been extended to run through June 19. See more here.

Two young women in matching outfits in front of an open air garage.

In the early ’80s Staten Island seemed like a world away from Manhattan. In Chrisitine Osinki’s newly rediscoved photographs, she reveals a time capsule of the growing borough, caught in a state of limbo between New York City and the rest of America. With a new Kickstarter she hopes to publish a new book of the work. See more here.

The Brooklyn Bridge opened to the public on May 24, 1883.

Photographs of the work-in-progress bridge, like this one by Eugene de Salignac, are now available to the public through the New York City Municipal Archives. See more here.

Paolo Roversi

Guinevere behind the table, Paris, 2004

Few publishers in the history of photography have had as lengthy a track record of producing books that are now considered the medium’s landmarks as Robert Delpire, who is honored in a tribute exhibition in New York City. See more here.

Foreclosure Alley, Antilope Valley, California, 2009. By Guillaume Zuili—Vu

Foreclosed: Documents from the American Housing Crisis, curated by our own Paul Moakley, is on view at The Alice Austen House Museum in New York City through June 9, with an opening reception tomorrow from 2-6 pm. More information here.

The Alice Austen House is also up for a grant through Partners in Preservation, and you can vote for the recipient! More info on that here.