{"id":239271,"date":"2026-05-21T13:41:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239271\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:41:05","slug":"water-rushes-down-subway-stairs-as-severe-storm-lashes-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239271\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Rushes Down Subway Stairs as Severe Storm Lashes New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Water rushed down the stairs at a subway station in New York on Wednesday, May 20, as a <a data-ylk=\"slk:severe thunderstorm;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSNewYorkNY\/status\/2057221992965693902\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">severe thunderstorm<\/a> hit the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning and a <a data-ylk=\"slk:severe thunderstorm watch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSNewYorkNY\/status\/2057161131668488465\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">severe thunderstorm watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It <a data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSNewYorkNY\/status\/2057092972911411317\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>, \u201cA few severe thunderstorms are possible from mid to late afternoon ahead of an approaching cold front.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage captured by David Liao shows floodwaters rushing down the stairs at Brooklyn\u2019s Grand Army Plaza. Credit: David Liao via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Water rushed down the stairs at a subway station in New York on Wednesday, May 20, as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[93478,9,11,10,93364,78721,79546,21183],"class_list":["post-239271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-david-liao","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-severe-thunderstorm","tag-severe-thunderstorm-watch","tag-severe-thunderstorms","tag-the-national-weather-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}