Heavy Rain Leaves Parts Of Hoboken, Brooklyn In Floods, Standing Water
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- The persistent precipitation lately has been causing big headaches – from smelly sewage in Hoboken to never-ending street flooding in Brooklyn.
From standing water on the streets to waste water creeping up on cars, CBS2's Jessica Schneider reported the after-effects of all the rain have been wearing on people's nerves.
"The black murk washed up on the corner of the sidewalk," said Jackson Manning of Hoboken. "You know, you smell it when it floods around here."
Heavy Rain Leaves Parts Of Hoboken, Brooklyn In Floods, Standing Water
In Hoboken, people had to wade through rainwater, mixed with wastewater from a nearby treatment facility, just to get to their cars.
Firefighters hosed down the sidewalks to get rid of the remnants, but the smell still lingered.
"It was just disgusting," said resident Michelle Grady. "It's typical Hoboken for you."
But in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, the street flooding never goes away – it only gets worse.
Parents with kids at P.S. 139, at 330 Rugby Rd., said the flooding has been going on for years, and it never moves.
"The main issue is accessibility to the school entrance," said Richard Crawford of Ditmas Park. "And there's hundreds of kids coming through this point of egress every morning and at nighttime, and they're just trying to jump over a lake."
Neighbors said the kids suffer through it all every day.
"It's just not great to have to walk through, like, two inches of standing water to get to the school in the morning when you're starting your school day," said parent Liz Fleischman.
Crawford said nothing is being done about the problem.
"We've called different city agencies; 311," he said.
CBS2 reached out to the Mayor's office and 311. They said it is an issue for the Department of Environmental Protection, which never returned CBS2's calls.
Local City Councilman Mathieu Eugene (D-40th) said he is trying to get city agencies to act.
"No one deserves to have pools of stagnant water impacting their neighborhood," he said in a statement.
Neighbors said the standing water grows exponentially at the height of storms.
