Cars Floating on Wall Street [View all]

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7:41 pm
Wendell Jamieson

As the evening high tide was drawing closer, there were reports of flooding in several low-lying areas around the five boroughs, places that had not in recent memory experienced flooding. In Lower Manhattan, water crossed South Street, and cars would be seen floating on Wall Street on television screens at the ConEd headquarters. In Brooklyn, water had piled back onto Van Brundt Street — which flooded during the morning high tide — well in advance of the evening high water mark. At 7:25 p.m., Ninth Street in Gowanus was a nearly uncrossable river of water.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/nyregion/hurricane-sandy.html#sha=50d856a68