Storms flood roads, bring down trees across NYC area for 2nd time in a week
Tuesday's storms flooded roads and brought down trees across New York City and its suburbs.
It comes just days after Saturday's storms caused similar damage.
Bronx River Parkway floods
In White Plains, the Bronx River Parkway was completely flooded and shut down in both directions during the evening commute.
The closure created major traffic backups in the surrounding area, especially along Tarrytown Road.
In Scarsdale, one family made the best of the situation, kicking a soccer ball across a dry section of the closed-down parkway.
By Tuesday night, the water was starting to recede.
The parkway is in a flood-prone area next to the Bronx River, and is often shut down during periods of heavy rain.
Parts of the Saw Mill River Parkway in Tarrytown were also closed at one point due to high water.
In Bronxville, low-lying areas also once again flooded, including the parking lot at Paxton and Midland avenues.
Drivers are reminded to never try to travel through flooded roadways.
In Valhalla, saturated ground brought down a tree in the driveway of Greg Kucera's home. Fortunately, no one was home at the time.
"Usually, we park the cars here, so one of them would have been crushed," Kucera said.
"A tree this big in your driveway is pretty crazy," son Stephen Kucera said.
Trees fall on cars in Queens
In Corona, Queens, a large tree crashed down onto a parked car at 95th Street and 41st Avenue.
The owner was inside her apartment at the time, and no one was injured.
It completely blocked the roadway, and several other cars across the street were stuck underneath the branches.
Car owners now have to wait for the city to remove the fallen tree.
At 99th Street and 24th Avenue in East Elmhurst, a falling tree branch shattered the driver's side window of another parked car. The door was dented and the side mirror broken.
Thankfully, no one was in that car at the time, either.
Residents frustrated by flash flooding
Woodside resident Maryann Maragioglio said she was dreading the prospect of more flash flooding after what she experienced Saturday, when over 3 inches of rain fell in her neighborhood.
Maragioglio said water spewed from the sewer grate, coming in through her windows and doors. She said it blew out her garage door and destroyed her belongings.
By the time the water stopped flowing in, she said it measured 13 feet deep from her basement up to her first floor.
She said the only other time she had flooding that deep was when Hurricane Ida hit in August 2021.
"Ida, OK, that was an act of God, Ida," she said, "but this is an act of New York City's stupid sewers."
Events canceled
The Yankees' game against the Pirates at Yankee Stadium was rescheduled due to the forecast. The team says it will be played as the second game of a split-admission doubleheader on Wednesday.
Ticketholders will be able to attend the second game, which is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. The originally scheduled game will start half an hour earlier at 1:05 p.m.
A Dave Matthews Band concert at Jones Beach on Long Island was also postponed due to the weather.
The rescheduled concert will take place on July 29. Tickets for Tuesday night's show will be honored for the new date.
