Dramatic Videos Show Nyc Subways And Train Stations Flooding In Torrential Downpour

Storms and torrential rainfall soaked nan tristate area connected Thursday, triggering vulnerable flash flooding that inundated basements, roads and New York City’s lifeline: nan subway.

The regular commute location from activity connected Thursday turned into a nightmare pinch underground train stations flooded during nan hectic evening commute.

Photos and video connected societal media showed passengers clinging onto gates astatine nan the 7th Avenue subway extremity successful Brooklyn connected Thursday evening to skillfully maneuver astir murky h2o that filled nan position entrance.

One clever man decided to protect his shoes astatine each costs — by stepping into flood waters astatine a train position wearing a integrative container connected his feet. Another clip showed passengers slogging done h2o that rushed into a train position successful Brooklyn, pinch h2o appearing to sprinkle successful through nan tiles connected nan walls.

Another video, clipped to nan tune of Taylor Swift's "Welcome to New York," showed passengers delicately braving nan flood waters, soaking their feet, arsenic disembarking passengers avoided nan h2o by climbing crossed position gates.

At Grand Central Terminal, it appeared to beryllium raining indoors, pinch h2o pouring down from nan ceiling onto a Metro North Train yesterday.

In Queens, nan tracks astatine nan the Bayside Long Island Railroad position looked for illustration a stream pinch floodwaters astir reaching nan position platform. A train packed pinch passengers was stopped and evacuated owed to nan water, and commuters were forced to find different measurement to their destinations.

The Port Washington Branch statement of nan Long Island Railroad was suspended successful some directions successful nan area of Flushing Main Street successful Queens owed to flooding.

“I conscionable did for illustration an Uber, conscionable to spot what nan value was going to be. It was for illustration $300 to get location from Penn (Station) during unreserved hour,” Bayside resident John D’Olimpio told NBC New York.

The Clearview Expressway adjacent 207th Street successful Bayside besides partially submerged successful yesterday’s storms. Video from nan segment showed multiple vehicles stranded in nan floods, including a tractor trailer, pinch h2o reaching halfway up nan cab.

Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a authorities of emergency for New York City and surrounding counties owed to nan rains, and locals were urged to move retired of basement apartments and brace for commute delays.

Overnight metropolis workers raced to pump h2o retired of position successful clip for nan Friday greeting commute.

This greeting location is constricted work connected nan Port Washington Branch of nan Long Island Railroad “as crews proceed to repair harm caused by yesterday’s storm.”

Overall, 1 to 3 inches of rainfall fell crossed nan region, pinch complete 3 inches successful Queens and Nassau County and complete 5 inches successful south-central Suffolk County, according to nan National Weather Service Office of New York.