nearly a month after our first interview. >> you can see the rusts on these stair treads. >> reporter: jeskyis time dressed in a suit and tie, took us back down underground. >> it wasn't a rebuild as some of our stations, this was a brand new tunnel station that was built. they've been taken back to the shops and labs -- >> reporter: just rebuilding south ferry station alone can take up to a year or more at a cost he's not even willing to guess about. >> we'll start taking components or pieces of the station down, the finished surfaces, the finished ceiling, the acoustic pieces of it. the signal systems will have to be rebuilt. all the conduits and piping will have to be opened up and drained. >> reporter: not to mention a sophisticated and intricate control room. >> this is the train dispatchers' office: >> reporter: looking now as if a bomb had hit it. >> the dispatchers and supervisors would operate out of this working environment. they had several different workstations where they could see the trains coming in and out of the station. completely destroyed. need to be replaced and rebuilt

>> less than 48 hours after the storm struck, new york city's chief infrastructure officer, frank jeskyok us down into the subway system. >> we'll take a quick look over there. >> to what looked like a scene from a science fiction movie, something beyond imagination. >> believe it or not, these timbers washed in from the ocean or the bay. >> this did right here? >> absolutely. >> so this washed in -- >> all this debris that you see washed in from the tidal surge. >> this station, the end of the line for the city's number one subway train, is called south ferry. three years ago, it was brand new, built at a cost of more than half a billion dollars. now it's in ruins. >> sandy broke records for the biggest waves in new york harbor, for the biggest surge in new york city, and for the lowest pressure ever north of north carolina. what was the impactful part of sandy was the surge at 12, 15 feet. that surge had never been seen in new york city before. >> when we were here, the water was just below this mezzanine level. >> nearly a month after our first interview -- >> you can see the rusts o

first interview -- >> you can see the rusts on these stair treads. >> -- jesky, this time dressed in a suit and tie, took us back down underground. >> it wasn't a rebuild as some of our stations, this was a brand new tunnel station that was built. they've been taken back to the shops and labs -- >> just rebuilding south ferry station alone can take up to a year or more at a cost he's not even willing to guess about. >> we'll start taking components or pieces of the station down, the finished surfaces, the finished ceiling, the acoustic pieces of it. the signal systems will have to be rebuilt. all the conduits and piping will have to be opened up and drained. >> not to mention a sophisticated and intricate control room. >> this is the train dispatchers' office. >> looking now as if a bomb had hit it. >> the dispatchers and supervisors would operate out of this working environment. they had several different workstations where they could see the trains coming in and out of the station. completely destroyed. need to be replaced and rebuilt. >> the force of the water so great, it even de

reporter: less than 48 hours after the storm struck, new york city's chief infrastructure officer, frank jeskiwn into the subway system. >> we'll take a quick look. >> reporter: to what looked like a scene from a science fiction movie. >> believe it or not, these timbers washed in from the ocean or bay. >> this timber right here. >> absolutely. >> are this washed in -- >> all this debris you see washed in from the tidal surge. >> reporter: this station, the end of the line for the city's number one subway train, is called south ferry. three years ago it was brand new. built at a cost of more than half a billion dollars. now it's in ruins. sandy broke records for the biggest waves in new york harbor, for the biggest surge in new york city, and for the lowest pressure ever north of north carolina. what was the impactful part of sandy was the surge at 12, 15 feet. that surge had never been seen in new york city before. >> when we were here the water was just below this level. >> reporter: nearly a month after our first interview. >> you can see the rust. >> reporter: this time dressed in a suit a