Storm Blog

BRP: (Bronx River Parkway): closed from the City Line to the Cross County Parkway in both directions. Also:
BRP NB CLOSED AT SBP SPLIT – YONKERS
BRP NB/SB CLOSED AT EXIT 21 – MAIN ST/NY 119 WHITE PLAINS
BRP NB/SB CLOSED BTWN EXIT 15 – FENIMORE RD & EXIT 16 – GREEN ACRES AVE – SCARSDALE
BRP NB / SB CLOSED BTWN WAKEFIELD AVE AND OAK ST – YONKERS
BRP NB & SB CLOSED BTWN EXIT 24 – FISHER LANE & EXIT 25 PARKWAY HOMES RD – GREENBURGH

SMRP (Saw Mill River Parkway): NORTH OF EXIT 7 – TUCKAHOE ROAD – YONKERS – RIGHT LANE CLOSED
SMRP NB CLOSED BTWN EXIT 13 – FARRAGUT AVE & EXIT 16 – LAWRENCE ST – HASTINGS ON HUDSON
SMRP SB NOW CLOSED BTWN EXIT 26 – TSP & EXIT 13 – FARRAGUT AVE – MT PLEASANT TO HASTINGS ON HUDSON.

SBP (Sprain Brook) SB CLOSED AT NY 100 / CENTRAL AVE – YONKERS
SBP SB ENTRANCE RAMP CLOSED FROM TUCKAHOE RD – YONKERS

HRP (Hutchinson Parkway) NB/SB CLOSED AT EXIT 12 – EAST LINCOLN AVE – AND THE RAMP TO HRP SB AT CCP SPILT IS CLOSED DUE TO EXIT 12 CLOSURE – TRAFFIC DETOURED FORCED TO DETOUR AT CCP- MT VERNON/PELHAM
HRP SB CLOSED AT EXIT 10 – EAST 3RD ST – PELHAM
HRP NB CLOSED NORTH OF EXIT 17 – NORTH AVE – NEW ROCHELLE
HRP NB/ SB CLOSED AT EXIT 9 – WOLFS LANE – PELHAM
HRP NB AREA OF EXIT 14 – NEW ROCHELLE RD RIGHT LANE CLOSED – EASTCHESTER

TSP (Taconic) NB/SB NOW CLOSED BTWN BRP AND SBP MERGE – MT PLEASANT

NY 119 CLOSED EB/WB @ SAW MILL – ELMSFORD

US 9 CLOSED BTWN RIVER RD & SCARBOROUGH RD – BRAIRCLIFF MANOR

NY 117 NB/SB CLOSED AT OLD HOUSE LN – NEW CASTLE

NY 124 CLOSED AT BOUTONVILLE RD – POUND RIDGE

I-95 NB/ SB CLOSED AT EXIT 22 – MIDLAND AVENUE – PORT CHESTER

NY 9A CLOSED AT NY 134 – OSSINING

Westchester County officials offered this update on local communities:

Con Edison reports 49 customers without power in Harrison, 64 in Scarsdale and 9 in New Rochelle. There are also scattered outages throughout the county in the single digits.

Rye: There is significant flooding, but conditions are improving. Numerous homes have been evacuated, using front end loaders and boats where necessary. Rye Country Day School has been opened as an evacuation center.

Port Chester: Experiencing some flooding, but no major issues to report at this time.

Rye Brook: Has evacuated 10 houses without power.

Mamaroneck: Several areas have been affected flooding, with partial evacuations: Winfield Ave, Urban Ave, James Street, Ellis Place, Chestnut Ave, Villa Ave, 1St Street. 2nd Street, 3rd Street, Howard Ave, Meadow Street, and Hillside Ave.

Reporter Shawn Cohen, heading eastbound on the Cross County Parkway, says the ramp to both the Sprain and Bronx River parkways is closed down, causing an unusual traffic hazard—drivers turning around and going the wrong way up the ramp to get back from whence they came.

Editor and field-reporter-for-the-day Henry Freeman is also reporting Midland Avenue on the Port Chester-Rye border is closed by flooding.

Hannan Adely reports from Bronxville’s high school and middle school, where two parking lots, a playground and part of a grass field are flooded, along with the first floor of the school building.

Students were officially dismissed for the day at 11:30 a.m., but many had already left earlier.

They told her the water started rising on the first floor at about 8 a.m. and students there were moved to the second floor. Students who had lockers on the first floor weren’t able to retrieve their belongings before being sent home.

Eighth grader Sarah Monaco said the water that flooded the first floor smelled “like sewer water.” She planned to spend the unexpected day off relaxing with two friends.

Reporter Caren Halbfinger says she’s found a handful of road and intersection closures in New Rochelle:
—Pinebrook Boulevard at Stratton Road, to Tulip Lane—The intersection of Pinebrook and Van Etten—Wilmot Road at Grand Boulevard—Wilmot at Sprague—Mount Tom Road

Police are posted at those locations to detour traffic.

From Melissa Klein (who also snapped this picture):

I was dispatched to find flooding on Fifth Avenue in New Rochelle and came across a small lake at the intersection with Portman Road near City Park.
The road was closed and a city crew was trying to remove debris from catch basins so the water would recede.
“I’ve never seen it like this,� said Anthony Russo, who was driving a backhoe.
Another worker remarked that “if we have to bring a backhoe out, it’s really bad.�
Pragnesh Patel, the manager of a nearby deli, said the intersection floods in heavy rains.
“Its bad for business,� Patel said. “They block the roads.�
As I stood near the flooding to take a photo with my cell phone, a city worker drove up and asked if I was OK. He thought perhaps my car was stuck in the lake.
Asked where else it was flooded in New Rochelle, he responded, “Where isn’t it flooded?�
Despite the road being closed, buses from a nearby yard barreled through the flooding. I took a picture of one and then ran as the water it displaced was about to wash over my shoes.

We’re getting reports of heavy flooding in the Indian Village section of Rye. Can anyone elaborate?

In case you’re wondering what some of that flooding that complicated your morning commute looked like:

Our photographer Mark Vergari snapped this pic of flooding this morning on the Northbound Bronx River Parkway at Oak Street in Yonkers.

Our editor Henry Freeman, who’s out and about, reports that Kenilworth Road in Harrison at Westchester Avenue is closed.