Overview
- Police said a 39-year-old man in Brooklyn was recovered from a flooded basement by FDNY divers and later pronounced dead at a hospital.
- In Washington Heights, a 43-year-old man was found in an inundated boiler room and died at the scene as police opened an investigation.
- The National Weather Service issued flash-flood warnings for nearly all of New York City and Westchester as videos showed streets and subway stations under water.
- Preliminary measurements indicated daily rainfall records at Central Park and LaGuardia, and Mayor Eric Adams said the sewer system was not built for such sustained volumes.
- LaGuardia and JFK temporarily halted some ground operations and multiple subway lines faced suspensions and delays as crews cleared drains, removed stalled vehicles and assessed damage.