"In the first incident, firefighters responded to the call of a person trapped in a flooded basement in the East Flatbush neighborhood around 4:25 p.m., police and the fire department said. The cause of death has not been determined. In the second, a 43-year-old man died after reports that a person was unresponsive in a flooded boiler room in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan around 4:44 p.m., police said."
"Around 3:30 p.m., 1 to 2 inches had fallen, with a rainfall rate expected of 1 to 1¼ inches in an hour, the agency said in an alert. Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, got got 2.79 inches of rain Thursday, the weather service said, and Midtown Manhattan saw a little over 2 inches of rain. Central Park recorded 1.85 inches, and LaGuardia Airport in Queens got 2.09 inches of rain."
Two fatalities occurred after lower rooms flooded in New York City during heavy late-afternoon rain; one person was found in a flooded basement in East Flatbush and a 43-year-old man was found unresponsive in a flooded boiler room in Washington Heights. Identities of the deceased were not immediately released. A flash flood warning covered Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and parts of Manhattan as a strong frontal system produced intense storms. Rainfall totals included 2.79 inches in Sheepshead Bay, a little over 2 inches in Midtown, 1.85 inches in Central Park and 2.09 inches at LaGuardia. Flooding closed major roadways, stranded cars in several neighborhoods, and a wind advisory warned of gusts near 40 mph through midnight Friday.
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