Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Flash flooding caused by relentless heavy rains that soaked western Pennsylvania spurred numerous rescues and evacuations in the region, but no injuries were reported. The National Weather Service ...
In pictures: Chaos after New York and New Jersey storms. 08:30, Kelly Rissman. All rain, no storm surge “What’s frightening about this flooding on the FDR is that ALL OF THIS WATER IS FROM RAIN.
Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive, commonly known as the FDR Drive, is a controlled-access parkway on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.It starts near South and Broad Streets, just north of the Battery Park Underpass, and runs north along the East River to the 125th Street / Robert F. Kennedy Bridge interchange, where it becomes Harlem River Drive.
FDR Drive was built along the East River shore in the 1930s using embankments and pilings. East River Park was built on landfill. In December 2019, the New York City Council voted to approve the controversial $1.45 billion East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) project, [17] involving the park's complete demolition and subsequent renovation. [18] [19]
An extension of the East River Drive (by now renamed the FDR Drive [178]) to the future Battery Park Underpass and Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel was approved in 1949. [179] Eventually, the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel was also slated to connect to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to Staten Island. [180]
The Battery Park Underpass is a vehicular tunnel at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, New York City, near the neighborhoods of South Ferry and Battery Park City.The tunnel connects FDR Drive, which runs along the east side of Manhattan Island, with the West Side Highway (New York State Route 9A, or NY 9A), which runs along the island's west side.
Flooding 1 to 2 feet deep affects some "coastal "roads and low lying areas from Revere and Winthrop through Boston to Hull, Braintree and Quincy," the weather service predicted when the warning ...
“Please understand this flooding is serious,” the department wrote in a Friday Facebook,post, adding: “Do not drive into flooded waters or around barricades. If you find yourself trapped ...