According to report reaching oyogist.com, Videos shared on social media has showed the Brooklyn Queens Expressway impassible, cars stuck in streets in Elmhurst, Queens, and water racing into subway stations in Manhattan. More than 3 inches of rain fell in Central Park in one hour.
The National Weather Service office in New York declared a flash flooding emergency Wednesday night as flooding in Queens and Brooklyn turned major streets into rivers and swamped basement and first-floor apartments.
The New York City Police Department told USA TODAY there have been 7 deaths linked to the flooding.
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