Last night, the MTA posted a video of the cleanup effort going on inside the Hugh Carey Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, which had reopened just the day before after a monstrous flood.

It is a burgeoning genre, after the MTA gave the L train tubes the same treatment—not every effort got a star turn, just the slow ones, as though to say, "Look, we're workin' on it." That and the jaw-dropping ones, like flooding inside the (still-closed) South Ferry subway station (and the cleanup).

The much beloved Detroit ruin porn comes to mind. Perhaps we should come up with a name for this new genre of film. Subway smut? S&MTA? Leave your nominees in the comments.

It was a regular stream of New York City wheels. And as so often happens when such vehicles tend to cluster, there was a back-up. Yes, traffic. Perhaps life is getting back to normal.

"In many ways, for me, this site a metaphor for the entire storm," Governor Cuomo said, from the awesome power of Mother Nature that first hit the city during Hurricane Sandy to the awesome rebuilding effort the MTA and others undertook.

"Now, only 15 days later, we are back in business," the governor said. "It's a story of rebirth and rebuilding we are seeing all over."

Currently the east-bound tunnel is open only during rush hour, with one lane dedicated for cars and one for buses. In the morning rush hour, vehicles may travel only into Manhattan, during the evening rush, it will be in the other direction, with cars going into Brooklyn.

"It's like night and day, thanks to the round-the-clock efforts of the MTA Bridge and Tunnel team," Mr. Lhota said.

Correction: Based on information from the governor's office, a previous version of this story said two lanes each for buses and cars was open today, but the MTA explained there is one lane for each. The Observer regrets the error.