Every five years, the city Health Department assesses and ranks public health hazards based on their likelihood, potential ...

It wouldn’t be a weekend in May without a bit of rain. The final days of the month continued what has been a rather wet ...

During the final week of summer in 2021, Hurricane Ida emerged from the Gulf of Mexico, turned almost directly northeast and ...

As much as 3 inches will fall on New York City through Wednesday coupled with strong, intense gusts, raising the risk of flash flooding. Although daunting, the heavy rain will bring much-needed ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Rounds of severe thunderstorms loaded with drenching rain triggered flash flooding throughout New Jersey, New York City and other parts of the Tri-State area on Tuesday ...

Flood damage in Woodside, Queens, following Hurricane Ida in 2021. New Yorkers are no strangers to flooding. There are 1.3 million New York City residents living in or next to a floodplain, or ...

Eric Sanderson spent the night as remnants of Hurricane Ida arrived over New York ... to show the city an early discovery that predicted his findings after Ida: When he overlaid flooding from ...

The Regional Plan Association released a report two months ago suggesting 19,000 homes in New York City proper were at risk of being lost from flooding by 2040.