Hoboken, New Jersey, and other cities and towns around New York City also experienced flooding. Here's what the mayor and schools chancellor had to say about it.

Flooding also forced the closure of one of the airport’s three terminals.ĭespite reports of flooding, New York Public Schools announced schools will remain open on Friday and encouraged students and staff to allow for extra time. Virtually every subway line was at least partly suspended, rerouted or running with delays, and the Metro-North commuter railroad was suspended.įlights into LaGuardia were briefly halted Friday morning, and then delayed, because of water in the airport’s refueling area. Environmental Protection Commissioner Rohit Aggarwala said that more than 2.5 inches of rain fell in a single hour at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, overwhelming the surrounding drainage systems. Some people arranged milk crates and wooden boards to cross the flooded sidewalks, with water close to waist-deep in the middle of some streets.Ī Brooklyn school was evacuated because its boiler was smoking, possibly because water had gotten into it, Schools Chancellor David Banks said at the news briefing. “It’s filthy.”Īs the rain briefly slowed at some point in the afternoon, residents emerged from their homes to survey the damage and begin draining the water that had reached the top of many basement doors. “The city has to do more to clean the streets,” he said. But that was little comfort to Osman Gutierrez, who was trying to pry soaked bags of trash and scraps of food from a drain near the synagogue where he works. The city said that it checked and cleared key drains, especially near subway stations, ahead of the storm. On a street in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, workers were up to their knees in water as they tried to unclog a storm drain while cardboard and other debris floated by. Across the city and beyond, drivers abandoned their cars after getting stuck in floodwaters that quickly became too deep to get through. Traffic hit a standstill, with water above cars' tires on a stretch of the FDR Drive, which was shut down at one part of the day.

Service is suspended at many stations,' the MTA's subway account posted on X, formerly Twitter. 'There is only extremely limited subway service available because of heavy flooding. The Metro-North commuter railroad was suspended, the Long Island Rail Road was snarled, and even bus service was severely disrupted, according to transit officials. Virtually every subway line was at least partly suspended, rerouted or running with delays. Residents struggled to get around the waterlogged metropolis. Adams said in an interview with NBC New York that there were three people rescued from basement apartments, and more than a dozen had been rescued from stalled vehicles. No storm-related deaths or critical injuries had been reported by the afternoon, city officials said. Kathy Hochul joined News 4 New York with an update on the heavy rain and flooding moving through the NYC metro area and announced a state of emergency has been declared. The 7.88 inches of rain at JFK Airport surpassed a record set dating back to 1948, the National Weather Service said. More than six inches of rain had fallen in parts of Brooklyn by the afternoon, with some spots seeing more than 2.5 inches in a single hour, according to weather and city officials. For some parts of the city, it was the wettest day on record in Central Park, it was the most rainfall seen since the remnants of Ida swept through two years ago. The storms are set to last for hours still, with rain expected to keep falling well into the night and into Saturday. More than five inches of rain fell in Central Park, starting overnight and stretching through Friday afternoon. Periods of heavy rain will continue overnight but most of the rain had moved out of the area by Friday eveningĪ potent rush-hour rainstorm swamped the New York City metro area Friday, leaving streets and highways flooded, service on multiple subway lines suspended or heavily impacted, and flights delayed or canceled.A flood watch is in effect through 6 a.m.Forecasts are reinforcing the potential for heavy rain centered around the NYC area from Friday into Saturday morning.

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