Heavy rains and heavy flooding covered the subway and forced drivers to get out of their cars in Brooklyn on Saturday night, as the first rains of Hurricane Henri fell in New York City before the expected arrival of the storm on Long Island Sunday.
Photographs captured by The Post in Gowanus showed police and firefighters assisting drivers whose vehicles appeared to be completely trapped in more than six inches of water.
The flood was one of several floods across the region due to storms caused in part by Henry’s humidity, the National Hurricane Center said.
Twitter users also reported flooding in Williamsburg, as drivers navigated the rivers turned into rivers by earlier-than-expected rains, which, along with lightning, stopped the We Love NYC Homecoming concert in Central Park, 7:30 p.m. pm The expected event was officially canceled about two hours later.
On Saturday night, about 4 inches of rain fell on Central Park, with a 1.69-inch drop between 10pm and 11pm. said the National Meteorological Service.
The water even reached some subway stations. Subway officials were forced to suspend 1 train between 14th Street and 96th Street and three trains between Harlem-148th Street and Penn Station shortly before midnight due to road flooding near the street 79, the MTA said. Riders were advised to take the 4th or 2nd, which was diverted to the east side.
A tweet showed a waterfall pouring into the Queens tracks while train A waited with the doors open.
Another showed even more torrential floods tossing over the G-line platform at 23rd Street in Queens as straphangers waited for the train.
An MTA representative confirmed the “state of the water” on 79th Street. The service was completely off between 34th Street and 79th Street, the representative said.
There were also trains running expressly between Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street and Euclid Avenue in Brooklyn due to flooding at the Utica Avenue station.
Even more flooding is expected when Henri arrives in the region on Sunday.
The Category 1 storm is expected to pour several inches of rain to the northeast, and storm surges are expected along the east coast of Queens and Long Island, the NHC said.
All of New York City was under a tropical storm warning as of 11 p.m., Saturday, meteorologists said. Trains and flights were already canceled before the storm.
Hurricane conditions were expected in Long Island and from New Haven to the east of the Rhode Island-Massachusetts border.
Reports from nearby Air Force aircraft indicated that Henri was moving at 21 miles per hour in a northwesterly direction, with winds near 75 miles per hour and even faster gusts.
Parts of New York City, northern New Jersey, Long Island and New England could see three to six inches of rain, the NHC said. Isolated areas can see up to 10 inches.
Henri is expected to face Connecticut, Rhode Island and the southernmost part of Massachusetts after passing through the New York region.