Subway Station Floods as NYC Hit With Extreme Downpour

The torrential downpour that has caused flooding across New York City transformed one Brooklyn subway station from a transit center into a makeshift water park.

Tom Schultz shared a video of what he said was Brooklyn's 7th Avenue station on TikTok as water burst through the cracks in the tiled wall and sprayed anyone who walked near.

The tiles going along the wall of the station appeared to be bursting as water blasted through the seams and poured onto the concrete floor.

The video was taken at the Seventh Avenue subway station, which is served by the Q train and B train, in Brooklyn and posted around the same time the Metropolitan Transit Authority warned of “extremely limited” subway service due to heavy flooding.

Online, people were shocked by the immense amount of water escaping through the wall of the station.

“I’m no expert. And, the subway is full of horrors. But, I don’t think that’s supposed to be like that,” one TikTok user wrote in the comments of the video.

“Looks like the summer sprinklers in the city parks,” another user wrote.

Others were aghast that Schultz was composed enough to capture a video of the scene.

“Bro… run!” One user wrote. 

“Standing there just watching is crazy,” another wrote.

Every single service line operated by the transit authority was disrupted Friday morning due to the extreme amount of rain in the city, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

Others around the city shared pictures and videos of disruptions faced on city transit as flooding created chaos. Between three and five inches of rain were forecast to hit the city on Friday, and by 10:30 a.m., over 5 inches of rain had already fallen on parts of the city.

Mayor Eric Adams told residents to shelter in place and use "extreme caution" during a Friday press conference. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency due to the flash flooding.