{"id":288551,"date":"2026-07-06T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288551\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:38:10","slug":"new-yorkers-wade-through-ankle-deep-water-during-flash-flood-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288551\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorkers wade through ankle-deep water during flash flood in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Yorkers waded through ankle-deep water Monday as flash flooding and high winds<\/a> hit neighborhoods in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Coney Island residents and business owners near the corner of Neptune Avenue and 33rd Street said at one point the floodwater reached about two feet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some residents carried their children on their backs as they waded through the streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I didn’t want him to get wet. It’s already up to here to me, so, imagine him,” Tatianna Bostic said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Sandbags couldn’t keep the floodwater out of Gourmet Market Deli, on the corner of 35th and Neptune, where workers said repairing the leaks will be costly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It floods every time over here because of the drains. They always clog up,” Mike Ali said. “Today was just a little bit worse. It was literally waves coming in, so we had to put the sandbags.”<\/p>\n

Belt Parkway flooding<\/p>\n

Monday’s relentless rain flooded the Belt Parkway in Queens, and at one point completely shut down the westbound lanes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Out here, this morning, was bad. It was really bad. Calf-high type water,” said Tony Ward, a UPS worker.<\/p>\n

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Some residents said more needs to be done to keep their neighborhood from becoming a flood zone every time heavy rain hits.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know what the city’s doing about it, but they need to do something really bad,” Ward said. “We’re talking about wastewater coming back out. That’s the problem.”\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

“I think it’s bad because they need to do something about it. It’s been like this for a while. They need to, I guess, clean the sewage,” Marcella Faulcon said.<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and city emergency management leaders had urged people to prepare for possible flooding.<\/p>\n

“City workers are doing everything possible to prepare for this storm — clearing catch basins, inspecting flood-prone neighborhoods, reaching out to New Yorkers living in basement apartments and positioning emergency response teams across the five boroughs,” Mamdani said ahead of the storm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Click here to check the latest watches, warnings and other weather advisories<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Crown Heights power outages<\/p>\n

The soaking weather also caused power outages in Crown Heights and a towering tree to crash onto a house and car in East Flatbush.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Heard the sound. Then came to look at the window, I see the branches inside my living room window. Then the whole tree was down,” homeowner Minnie Edwards said.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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Con Edison said there were about 4,660 customers without power as of 4 p.m. Monday.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

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