NYC streets turn into raging rivers during epic downpour flooding roads and subways

The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia drenched the Big Apple Friday.

barreled through the tri-state area, turning local roads into rivers during the morning rush hour.

Cellphone footage taken aboard an MTA bus at 18th Avenue and 60th Street in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst neighborhood showed floodwaters gushing into the vehicle filled with passengers, among them children, who tried to stay dry by lifting their feet off the floor. The storm also drenched parts of the city’s subway system, turning a staircase at the Grand Army Plaza station on the 2/3 line in Brooklyn into a waterfall, as seen in a bystander’s dramatic cellphone video.

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