While upstate was spared from the worst of the storm, downstate saw the brunt of Sandy. New York City was hit hard by high winds and pouring rain. YNN's Erin Connolly has more on Sandy's impact on the city.
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NEW YORK STATE -- Upstate New York was prepared for the worst, but compared to last year, most of us got lucky. New York City, on the other hand, was slammed with high winds and pouring rain. And proof of those high winds is part of a crane dangling off a building on West 57th Street.
Crews closed off surrounding streets as a precaution. The New York City Fire Department responded, but no injuries have been reported.
Capital Tonight's Liz Benjamin spoke exclusively on the phone with Governor Cuomo who said much of Upstate was spared.
“I think it's going to be a pure inverse of where we were last time. Where downstate was basically unscathed and upstate paid a terrible price. I think now it's going to be the opposite. I think the price is going to be paid by downstate," Cuomo said.
This is video from earlier in the day on Coney Island in Brooklyn. You can see the waves crashing into the pier and onto the famous boardwalk.
Over on Staten Island, New Yorkers were seeing waves crashing over the boardwalk in the Midland and South Beach neighborhoods. Much of the area around Staten Island's East Shore was in the mandatory evacuation zone.
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WESTERN NEW YORK – In Western New York, many counties along the Great Lakes have declared a State of Emergency.
Monroe County and Rochester city officials have ordered mandatory evacuations of more than 2,200 homes along the Lake Ontario shoreline. That includes some homes in Greece, Rochester and Irondequoit.
Those people are being moved into area shelters, as a precaution.
Western New York will see similar winds and rain to our area in the overnights.
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CENTRAL NEW YORK -- Central New York and the Southern Tier appear to have dodged the worst of "Superstorm Sandy."
The storm rolled up the eastern seaboard Monday, causing flooding and widespread damage to New York City and other areas along the coast.
Closer to home, it was mostly rain falling across the region, however, high winds did cause some problems like scattered power outages.
A strong gust ripped down parts of a tree in the Village of Jordan. It landed on top of a home on Hamilton Street. No one was hurt, but the second floor sustained heavy damage.
Emergency officials want to remind people to steer clear of any downed trees or power lines.
In Pennsylvania, State Police say a father and his eight-year-old child were walking around their home in Franklin Township.
Around 5:30 p.m. Monday, a strong gust of wind snapped a tree limb hitting the young boy. Investigators say he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The victim's name has not been released
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HUDSON VALLEY, N.Y. -- The Hudson Valley was also hit hard. A State of Emergency was declared in Newburgh Monday morning and through the day water levels along the Hudson River were rising.
The city's fire chief actually predicted that the storm surge would be worse than Irene. But after seeing the damage from that storm, many people say they were better prepared for Sandy.
Things were not as severe in the Capital Region. In Rensselaer County, trees and power lines came down Monday night. Utility crews were busy keeping up with all the outages, but in the same line, damage was not bad as expected.
Tens of thousands of people are without power in the Hudson Valley area. NYSEG, Central Hudson, and Orange and Rockland are all reporting outages across the Hudson Valley.
Many people took the warnings of state and local officials to stay inside. Rainfall totals vary greatly depending on where you are. Today will be breezy, but nothing near what we saw Monday, as the Hudson Valley begins to recover from this storm.
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MASSACHUSETTS -- Emergency crews and power companies are working in the Bay State. There are power lines down in many areas, leaving thousands of people in the dark in Massachusetts.
A spokesman for National Grid there says to be prepared for possible extended outages.
National Grid Spokesman Fred Kippen said, "There's a huge tree has come down and taken down all the primary lines which feed into Andover and North Andover. So the work ahead of us, we've got two broken poles, I've got a transformer on the ground."
According to Massachusetts utilities, the biggest outages are in the coastal areas.