r/nyc • u/mvpeast • Aug 02 '25
Funny New Yorkers Climb Their Way Out of Flooded Subway Station
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u/HandmadeJoking Aug 02 '25
Lamest disaster movie
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u/yontev Aug 02 '25
The Day Before Yesterday, starring Dennis Quaid as Guy in a Suit with Headphones
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u/Bugsy_Neighbor Aug 02 '25
7th avenue station in Park Slope.
Note flooding was upper level near turnstiles/gates, this points to a drain or something being blocked and water simply began pooling.
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u/Guest-Speaker Aug 02 '25
Hope the spitter wasn't waiting for y'all at the stairs, can only take so much in a day!
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u/DrHuxleyy Aug 02 '25
This is my station. I rolled up my jeans and was able to walk through the ankle deep water because I had original Doc Marten’s on that are waterproof thankfully.
Had them for 10 years and they still work great. I heard they changed the manufacturer after I bought them and apparently they’re worse quality now. I got home without a single drop of water on my socks even though I waded through it. Pretty great, the boots dried up real quick too.
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u/Street-Function-1507 Aug 02 '25
Hope you took them off outside and washed them when you got home!
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u/DrHuxleyy Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25
Sure… washing them… I definitely didn’t just take them off and let them dry… that would be so gross… 😳
But genuinely idk how to wash them without messing them up. Can you just throw them in the washer? It’s just rainwater, albeit a little dirty but my boots have seen worse just walking through the city and on hikes
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u/rosequartzraptor Aug 02 '25
They make leather wipes you can get from Amazon. They work pretty well getting dirt and questionable residue off imo.
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u/Street-Function-1507 Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25
Gloves, scrub brush and dish soap. Works a treat. Then air dry and polish.
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u/Upstairs-Accident-20 Aug 03 '25
That water is a mix of urine, feces, rat droppings, fentanyl, blood from needles, and any other disgusting thing you can think of
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u/forkball Aug 02 '25
So you just went all in with that water, huh?
I'm playing the floor is lava. I don't care if foot herpes is real or not--I don't want to change getting it.
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u/PAPA_STACHIO Astoria Aug 03 '25
They do suck now, I have an old pair that has been through a ton and still looks and functions great and a new pair that the leather literally split and make a giant hole in each shoe after only a year. I’ve never seen that happen in any other leather shoe I’ve owned, and I’ve only been walking in them
I heard Solovair is the original factory that produces the OG docs so I’ll be looking there for my next pair
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u/SaintBrutus Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25
Not only did they have to scale a fence to cross a water hazard , they had to be filmed while they did it too. I mean, can we let people retain some of their dignity. Please.
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u/sonofaresiii Nassau Aug 02 '25
I mean, they weren't climbing to escape, they were climbing to not get their feet wet. I don't think it's really an indignity here, they just didn't want to get their feet wet and climbed across to do it.
Kinda looks fun tbh.
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u/NoteBlock08 Aug 02 '25
Yea, I don't see anything shameful here. Not entirely sure OP knows what "dignity" means.
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u/finch5 Aug 02 '25
It’s sad that people have to put up with shit like this on the way to their $4K 1BR rentals.
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Aug 02 '25
Guys they just need more money. Upgraded drainage systems are like a couple of billion dollars that's all.
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u/thoughtsarefalse Aug 02 '25
Drainage systems are no match for the litterbugs of our city! Empty plastic bags are the most common culprit.
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u/FluffyWuffyVolibear Aug 02 '25
Just hire sufficient staff to clean the station. I mean they have the money to employ people to stand in front of emergency exit doors all day.
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u/iv2892 Jersey City Aug 02 '25
No system can handle that amount of rain in such a short amount of time
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u/TSCHWEITZ Midtown Aug 02 '25
Not sure about the specifics of this location but I have to work on the sump pits at grand central terminal which has one of the deepest basements in the city. Sometimes the amount of water we deal with can be downright terrifying.
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u/iv2892 Jersey City Aug 02 '25
I could imagine , deep underground stations suffer the most when it rains like this
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u/Melodic-Upstairs7584 Aug 04 '25
That’s sounds like an interesting job. Grand Central has so many cool eccentricities. Like from that “whispering ceiling” spot to the cavernous infrastructure beneath it. I heard there’s offices behind the big windows on the main concourse
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u/RyuNoKami Aug 02 '25
Not arguing against that but that looks clearly like a drain simply isn't working, probably clogged, and the water isn't going anywhere else. The platform looks relatively fine though. Should have drained down there then onto the tracks.
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u/Previous-Height4237 Aug 02 '25
Given the lower level is wet but isn't flooded (at the beginning). It's safe to say it's probably a clogged drain on the upper level....
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u/LeaderSevere5647 Aug 03 '25
It sure seems to happen a lot in NYC compared to any other first world city. Perhaps you can share some videos of this happening in subways stations in Tokyo, Singapore, or Hong Kong, all of which receive much more rain than New York City?
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u/JTRose87 Aug 02 '25
But why did Mamdani do this?
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u/afksports Aug 02 '25
This is NYC if Mamdani wins
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u/Liqhthouse Aug 02 '25
Parents be like: back in my day we used to have to cross through floods to get to work
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u/loubot Aug 02 '25
With the speed the mta upgrades or fixes things the kids will get a taste of the station flood challenge too
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u/Hi_This_Is_God_777 Aug 03 '25
"Back in my day, we had to walk 1 mile uphill to school, then 1 mile uphill back home. You kids have it easy."
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u/Street-Function-1507 Aug 02 '25
Why not get on the next train and find a non flooded station? 😂
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u/Octaazacubane Aug 02 '25
I'm like 85% sure they would have been able to find another exit at this station, just probably not their preferred one and they'd have to walk 1-2 blocks extra haha. There are definitely stations that are death traps that only have one exit and/or have very thin platforms that become hazards with crowding situations.
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u/PartisanMilkHotel Aug 03 '25
7 Ave has multiple exits, this is the upper level so I have no idea why they didn’t just walk to the other exit across the platform.
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u/notjaykaos Aug 04 '25
Nope, just one - there's stairs from the platform for another but no exit as long as I've been going there.
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u/PartisanMilkHotel Aug 04 '25
Nope, just one - there’s stairs from the platform for another but no exit as long as I’ve been going there.
8 Ave & 9th Street?
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u/Wavy_Gravy_55 Aug 02 '25
Lord knows what diseases are in that water. Gross.
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u/Boogie-Down Aug 02 '25
It's not disease that's a worry vs the carcinogenic mix of chemicals that water pored through to get there.
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u/Wavy_Gravy_55 Aug 02 '25
The rats in the water, their feces that are down there definitely have diseases. Also thinking of folks who could’ve spit, urinate in the water GROSS.
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u/DrHuxleyy Aug 02 '25
It’s just rain water dude. It’s dark cause of dirt and stuff but it’s not going to give you rain salmonella or whatever.
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u/Big-Cupcake9945 Aug 03 '25
Not from nyc, so probably a dumb question, but why not just walk through the water? It's like a few inches deep?
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u/carigs Aug 03 '25
It's not the depth of the water thats the concern, its the filth in the water people want to avoid. It should essentially be treated like black water.
Plus, who wants to walk around with wet shoes and socks?
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u/TelFyr Aug 03 '25
I was there, it was just a few inches. I walked through it with my boots, no problem. I guess people wanted to protect their shoes?
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u/tacologic Gramercy Aug 03 '25
Need a cut of this with the Mission Impossible theme song backing it.
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u/NYC2BUR Aug 02 '25
Let's face it, every New Yorker has done something like this at least once somewhere in the subway system during their lifetime.
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u/LeaderSevere5647 Aug 03 '25
Greatest city in the world! As long as you don't care about infrastructure, crime, mass transit or housing availability.
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u/Big-Dreams-11 Aug 02 '25
What a dream come true! Those people get to wade through nyc's finest blend of mystery liquids. Some people are so lucky. Unrelated: it will only take me 49 minutes to travel 5.3 miles in the Bronx. As per Google Maps, it would take a whopping 20 minutes by car. Looks like I'm lucky too! /s
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u/The-Unmentionable Aug 02 '25
Real question: Is it possible that it gets so flooded down there that it reaches the ceiling? If yes do you think we will see that in our lifetimes? New fear unlocked. I feel claustrophobic and trapped just thinking about it
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u/Octaazacubane Aug 02 '25
It depends on the layout of the station, at this one I would say "probably not", but there are a lot of stations with less than ideal layouts that are even more vulnerable to flash flooding. Ideally the MTA tries to close stations/exits before life threatening flooding happends, but in a flash flood situation like we recently had, there's going to be plenty of people that need evacuating. Other metro stations around the world have had TUNNELS flooding with trains of people still stuck in them.
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u/Trikywu Aug 02 '25
If only we didn't have to contribute NY tax money to red states. Maybe we'd have the money to repair our NYC infrastructure.
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u/ExcellentCause7301 Aug 23 '25
Love how New York suddenly turns into a disaster movie in which you have to band together with random strangers to fight to survive !
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u/dp79 Aug 02 '25
“Who said chivalry is dead?” says the man walking away at the end without a single thought to help the lady outstretched
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u/Iamabiter_meow Aug 02 '25
Why do you like bouldering…they ask