Overview

• A burst roof pipe during Monday night’s torrential downpour flooded lower‐level auditoriums at AMC Lincoln Square, forcing an evacuation captured on social media.
• By late Tuesday morning upper‐tier screens, including the Imax and Dolby Cinema auditoriums, had resumed showings while crews cleared water from the bottom floors.
• AMC has issued automatic refunds for all tickets to disrupted showtimes and confirmed no other theaters in New York City were affected by the incident.
• Central Park recorded over two inches of rain in a single hour—its second‐heaviest hourly total on record—leading to subway flooding, road closures and flight delays.
• The storm claimed at least two lives and prompted New Jersey’s governor to declare a state of emergency as regional cleanup and recovery efforts continue.