Tropical Storm Elsa brought heavy rainfall to the city overnight into Friday morning, flooding the Harlem River drive.
It also brought some stormy skies and rough waters to Rockaway Beach, attracting surfers hoping to catch some big waves.
An unrelated storm Thursday evening brought a month's worth of rain to the city in just a few hours. Flooding the Major Deegan Expressway and the 157th Street subway station in Washington Heights.
By early Friday morning, the station was reopened and it was business as usual for commuters.
Cheko France said she just missed the station flooding Thursday, and was shocked by the videos.
“People were going through the muddy waters to get to the train,” said France, a Washington Heights resident. “I would have been like, 'Bye. Taking a bus.'”
“We’re last in reference to train infrastructure. It’s bad. We’re like dinosaurs,” said Giovanni Batanes, a Washington Heights resident.
Elsa brought wind speeds up to 50 mph, bringing down a large tree on the Upper West Side.
Parks staff say they’ve been working overtime in response to trees down across the city this week due to all of the stormy weather.
“We’re working 12-hour days,” said Parks Forestry Supervisor Jobe Walker. “Blocked roads, trees on cars, high-priority things like that, we're right away, we’re here to clear.”
The worst of the storm was over Friday morning. Elsa is the third tropical storm to hit the city in the past two years.