{"id":302613,"date":"2026-07-22T05:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302613\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T05:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:30:49","slug":"news-12-bronx-new-yorkers-brace-for-flash-flooding-storms-incoming-across-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302613\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | New Yorkers Brace For Flash Flooding Storms Incoming Across The City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New Yorkers were urged to stay alert Tuesday while a flood watch was in effect for the city.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Many neighborhoods braced for high water levels, especially Coney Island.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 cameras captured people preparing for potential floodwaters by placing sandbags outside their basement doors.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The city told residents who live in basement apartments to be ready to move to higher ground if heavy rain arrived.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The city also warned the public about multiple rounds of rain and thunderstorms across the five boroughs Tuesday into Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">For many residents in Coney Island, the heavy rain was the biggest concern, plus a number of sinkholes forming along West 33rd Street.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThere\u2019s just a big hole in the ground. You can see right through,&#8221; Potoula Stavropolous, a local teacher, said, &#8220;Cars are going through all the time, children are walking by. The city needs to take care of these things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cCan you imagine a wheel of this vehicle\u2026goes inside?\u201d Adil Hussein, a driver, said. &#8220;Something has to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Yorkers were urged to stay alert Tuesday while a flood watch was in effect for the city.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-302613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302613","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=302613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}