The spectacle of subway flooding used to feel shocking; now it’s more of a genre. Writes cliomiso: 'New York seems to have decided that the floods won'
The 149th Street station after Hurricane Ida. Photo: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images The rain was heavy on Monday, and the scene at Dyckman Street was familiar: a rush of water pouring into a subway station from the ceiling and flooding the tracks. Inwood saw some of the worst of it, and A-train service north of 181st Street was suspended overnight. In Washington Heights, the cascading stream down the steps at 157th Street and Broadway looked almost beautiful, like a subterranean waterfall.
Experts warned that we would only continue to see storms with more extreme rainfall; absent radical intervention, the drama of a city transformed by water would dull into something more routine. One told Gizmodo that fixing subway flooding would require addressing built infrastructure as a whole, and that solutions would amount to a systemic transformation of the landscape: “reducing paved surfaces, planting trees, daylighting underground streams, creating more parks and green roofs.
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