Flooding Causes Shutdown of Some Roadways in The Bronx

By DAVID GREENE

THE NORTHBOUND LANE of the Bronx River Parkway got flooded between East Gun Hill Road and East 233rd Street on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023.
Photo by David Greene

Severe flooding due to heavy rainfall on Friday, Sept. 29, caused some roadways, including the Bronx River Parkway, to be closed off to traffic. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul had warned New Yorkers ahead of the flooding to exercise extreme caution, as reported.

Meanwhile, one Bronx resident who declined to be identified who got stuck in the mud at Mosholu Parkway and Van Cortlandt Avenue in Norwood on his way to work told Norwood News at around noon, “The [expletive] don’t want to help me, you should report that.”

Asked if the police didn’t stop him from driving down the street, before he got stuck, he said, “No, they didn’t stop me. They were there and they wouldn’t help either. Everybody was going around [the water]. I was trying to go around and I got stuck.”

Norwood News reached out to the NYPD for comment.

THE BRONX RIVER Parkway is shut down between East Gun Hill Road and East 233rd Street after the river overflowed onto the other side of the highway during a historic rain storm on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023.
Photo by David Greene

The driver was seen placing large tree branches under his tire as it became stuck under one to two inches of mud. When we returned to the area at 2:05 p.m. when the flooding had subsided, the driver stuck was still there.

Flooding was also reported at East 233rd Street and Webster Avenue, at East 233rd Street and Bronx River Parkway, at the Major Deegan Expressway and West 230th Street, at the Major Deegan Expressway at Van Cortlandt Park, and another car got stuck in the mud at Pelham Parkway and White Plains Road.

WATER FLOODED A construction zone along the Bronx River Parkway at East 233rd Street where the DOT had been replacing an overpass before the storm of Friday, Sept. 29, 2023.
Photo by David Greene

At 1:45 p.m. the police department reported that NYC Department of Transportation had shut the Henry Hudson Parkway / Saw Mill River Parkway due to flooding. At 2:15 p.m., a “water rescue” was reported at Mosholu Parkway and Van Cortlandt Park.

The rainfall stopped at just before 4 p.m.

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