In interviews with WNYC/Gothamist the day after the storm, many described the dozens of abandoned vehicles left behind the roadway as a result of flooding as apocalyptic.Įnvironmental advocates in the Bronx said this distress could have been avoided. Most of the flooding happened in the Kingsbridge and Van Cortlandt sections of the Bronx, stunning residents who could not recall another time this stretch of Interstate 87 was severely inundated with upwards of five feet of water.
When remnants of Hurricane Ida swept into New York City, it flooded parts of the Major Deegan Expressway, an 8.5-mile arterial roadway in the west Bronx.
