New York closes down trains, buses ahead of storm

Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers cover an entrance to the Canal Street A, C, and E station with plywood to help prevent flooding on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in New York as Hurricane Sandy approaches the New York region. AP PHOTO

NEW YORK—New York authorities ordered the subway, commuter trains and buses to close on Sunday ahead of the arrival of a feared superstorm.

The New York subway and regional buses will stop from 7 p.m. (2300 GMT), state governor Mario Cuomo announced as he warned that the impending storm was “not something to be taken lightly.”