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Two people died Thursday in NYC when flash flooding filled basements from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan.
NEW YORK (AP) — Two people died in flooded New York City basements Thursday during a rainstorm that shut down roadways and caused airport delays, authorities said. A scuba team recovered the body of a 39-year-old man after firefighters received a call of ...
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The Manhattan man killed in Thursday's record-setting rainstorm complained multiple times about the flood-prone basement where he died, according to a tenant. First responders found Juan Carlos Montoya Hernandez, 43, dead in the flooded boiler room at a building on West 175th Street and Broadway in Washington Heights.