Firefighters responded to a call of a person trapped in a flooded basement in East Flatbush around 4:25 p.m. after a squall ...

Intense rainfall impacted New York City on Thursday causing Brooklyn to look more like a swamp than a city. Several streets were closed and air traffic was snarled.

Sometimes flash floods end in mass tragedy, as was the case when the Guadalupe River overtook summer camps in Texas. But more often, people are killed by flash floodwaters when they try to drive or ...