Severe weather floods streets and snaps trees in parts of NYC area
A deadly storm on Thursday has caused damage across the Tri-State with flooding, downed trees, and flooded subways.
Two people died in separate basement flooding incidents in New York City.
In Yonkers, a tree reportedly struck a closed porch, ripping it off a house on Rockland Avenue.
Streets were flooded at 75th and Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge.
Numerous cars were stuck in flooded roadways in Bayonne, New Jersey. And a young girl was rescued from a vehicle that was stuck in deep water.
A downed tree was reported across East 230th Street at Lowerre Place, in the Wakefield section of the Bronx.
Toppled trees also blocked roads in Corona and Flushing, Queens.
Video showed flooding at the 86th Street transverse in Central Park.
Disruptions at New York City-area airports:
Newark Liberty International Airportis currently experiencing:
John F Kennedy Internationalis currently experiencing:
LaGuardia Airportis currently experiencing:
Mass transit disruptions
New Jersey
New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast Line rail service was subject to up to 60-minute delays in both directions due to high water conditions near Newark International Airport station.
New Jersey Transit's North Jersey Coast Line rail service was suspended for a time after a tree fell on top of wires in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Service has since resumed in both directions between Penn Station New York and Long Branch stations and but is subject to up to 20-minute delays.
Rail tickets and passes are being cross-honored by NJ Transit and private carrier buses and PATH at Newark Penn Station and 33rd St., New York.
New York City
MTA Bridges and Tunnels announced that due to ongoing high wind conditions, the agency will be implementing the prohibition of certain vehicles from using MTA Bridges and Tunnels crossings as weather develops.
The current restrictions include:
- Cross Bay Bridge - ban on empty tractor trailers and tandem trucks, shared use path closed
- Marine Parkway Bridge - ban on empty tractor trailers and tandem trucks, shared use path closed
- Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge - ban on all tractor trailers and tandem trucks, cars pulling trailers, house trailers, minibuses, motorcycles, any other vehicle deemed a potential safety hazard
- Throgs Neck Bridge - ban on empty tractor trailers and tandem trucks
Power outages
New Jersey
PSE&G:58 outages, 1,705 affected customers
JCP&L: 1,237 affected customers
Long Island
PSE&G LI: 48outages, 664 affected customers
New York City
Con Edison:109outages, 946 affected customers
Orange and Rockland counties
O&R:17 outages, 102 affected customers
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