From Queens to Staten Island, floodwaters caused serious issues all around New York City on July 31.

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Flash floods have caused significant disruptions throughout New York City, affecting areas including northern Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. Emergency management teams, along with police and fire departments, have been deployed across the city to respond to incidents and assist with vehicle removal and subway maintenance. 

Authorities have advised residents to avoid unnecessary travel, use public transportation if needed, and stay updated on weather conditions. While some subway and rail services have experienced temporary impacts due to high water, recent infrastructure improvements have helped minimize long-term disruptions. The heaviest rainfall has passed, but officials continue to monitor the situation and urge caution during the ongoing recovery.

Flash floods cause issues throughout New York City

Joining us now is Zach Iskall, Commissioner of New York City Emergency Management. Zach, I know you're an extraordinarily busy person today, so we appreciate your time. Thank you so much. Yeah, the team's been busy today, but they've been doing a great job and good to be with you today. It's good to hear. And well, what can you tell us about the flooding? We saw some pretty impressive footage from Queens. And what other boroughs are most vulnerable to flooding right now? Yeah, I mean, I think you guys here at AccuWeather know better than anybody. The issue that we have with these types of weather events is unlike coastal flooding, where we sort of have really good models to understand when that water comes into New York Harbor, into Jamaica Bay, we sort of know where it's going to go and the impact it's going to have along the coastal parts of the city. With rainfall, with these types of storm cells, it's really, really hard to predict until, you know, minutes, hours beforehand, exactly what parts of the city are going to be most impacted. So we've seen impacts all over the city, northern Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, parts of Brooklyn, definitely out in Staten Island today. But we've had teams deployed around the city, both life safety agencies, NYPD, FDNY, tow trucks deployed around the city to quickly move vehicles off the roadways, pumps stationed with our partners at the MTA at subways. So we have a lot of things stationed all over the city to deal with those impacts, just because we don't know exactly where the rain's going to fall. So what is your safety message for the rest of this evening's commute here? Yeah. So, you know, hopefully we're on the tail end of this. We put out a travel advisory earlier this morning advising people to be cautious about the p.m. commute, the a.m. commute tomorrow morning. We're hoping there aren't residual impacts tomorrow morning. We'll know more in short order. But for today, really, people should be patient. They should try and stay off the roads, take public transportation if you have to commute home, and really be cautious. Make sure that you're monitoring the forecast. And hopefully we'll be out of this in the next few hours, and it will be the water will recede, and it will be a safer time for people to get back on the roads later tonight. Zach, what can you tell us about rail impacts? I've read of some, at least, reports of high water and water dumping down into some of the train stations, subway stations. Are there any travel impacts there with schedule modifications or shutdowns there temporarily? Yeah. Right now for the latest, what I would encourage folks to do is to go to the MTA site or to their social media to look for real-time updates in terms of impacts to subway and rail. I think that's always sort of the best place to get the information. And again, we've seen impacts around the city, both for our subways, roadways across the city. But again, these things can move so fast. The MTA has done a lot of great investments to improve the infrastructure. So even when we have minor flooding, they're able to get the subway system back up and running very quickly because they flood-proofed a lot of the signal system and a lot of the equipment that used to have the potential to get really damaged for long-term damage in previous storms. All right. Well, we appreciate your insight and all that you're doing to keep the largest city in the nation as safe as possible during a flash flood event. Zach Iskal, Commissioner of New York City Emergency Management. Thanks again, Zach. Great. Always good to be with you. Thank you. Yeah. Likewise, Zach. And we're going to take a quick look at what's going on a little bit farther into the region here. And you can see that the trend is for a lot of us, for at least the northwestern two-thirds of New York City, we expect to see another batch of showers kick through, but the heaviest, steadiest rain is over.

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