NYC Flooding: Gov. Hochul Declares State of Emergency

Torrential summer storms battered the Big Apple on Thursday, trapping a LIRR train filled with passengers and submerging cars on a Queens highway in a travel nightmare that hampered the evening rush.

Floodwater soaked the iconic Grand Central Station’s platform, cascaded in dramatic waterfalls inside Brooklyn’s Jay Street-MetroTech and burst from the walls in the Seventh Avenue station in Park Slope, wild video showed.

A LIRR train got stuck on the tracks for several hours near Bayside station in Queens, forcing firefighters to use ladders to help travel-weary commuters evacuate, according to separate footage.

To add insult to wet injury, a power outage at a Manhattan subway station caused delays on multiple trains as commuters desperately tried to flee home amid the storm.

The roadways above ground weren’t spared either and as the skies opened up with a vengeance in the late afternoon, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams issued emergency declarations, urging New Yorkers to stay home to avoid the flooded streets and inundated subway stations.

The Clearview Expressway in Queens was left underwater, trapping a semi-truck and several cars, authorities said.

FDNY and the NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit crews raced to the flooding near Northern Boulevard after reports of occupants trapped inside submerged vehicles, authorities said.

Those inside the stalled cars made it out safely, FDNY officials said — though it wasn’t immediately clear if they were rescued or escaped under their own power.

The Clearview was subsequently closed in both directions at Northern Boulevard, police said.

One MTA bus in Brooklyn inexplicably had stormwater flood its center isle, leaving commuters confounded and lifting their feet to avoid them getting soaked.

Flooding also prompted closures of the Long Island Expressway, the Cross Island Parkway and the Staten Island Expressway, officials said.

Air travel turned into a nightmare as well.

All flights at the three main Big Apple-area airports were delayed for up to three hours as the torrential downpours wreaked havoc.