The nor’easter has taken the Big Apple by storm – again.
A 1-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl were among four people injured by a falling tree in Brooklyn, it was reported Sunday – as the second round of the region’s deadly weekend storm hit the city.
The wet, wild storm sent hapless ocean fish swimming in alleys and hungry seagulls diving for dinner on city streets — all while prompting a waterlogged NYPD cop to call it the worst flooding in his Queens neighborhood since Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
“I mean, there are horseshoe crabs all the way out to Broad Channel Drive,” said off-duty officer Matt Langdon, 48, wearing rubber boots, standing in the water outside his Beach 84th Street home.
“I moved here to Far Rockaway when I was 10, and this is the worst it’s been since Sandy.”
“Our crawl space is flooded to the joists,” the officer told The Post on Sunday. “At its highest point it was up to my thigh, it was 2 and a half feet deep in my house. My kids are stuck in the house.”
Millions of New Yorkers hunkered down as the storm continued unabated to batter the region since Saturday with inches of pouring rain, tumultuous winds and increasing floodwaters.
Nearly 40,000 people across the Empire State were without power Sunday morning, including 19,800 in Long Island’s Suffolk County alone, according to PowerOutage.us.
A whopping 3.16 inches of rain fell in Howard Beach, Queens, with most areas of the city seeing at least an inch since Saturday, according to National Weather Service data.
Winds of up to 56 mph were recorded at JFK Airport in Queens, with Midtown recording gusts of up to 47 mph during the storm’s two days, according to the weather service.
High winds downed numerous trees across the city, including one that killed beloved NYCHA repairman Leighton Brown, 56, on Saturday.
Four other New Yorkers – including the little boy and girl – were also nearly flattened by another falling tree Saturday at Kelly Park Playground in Homecrest, Brooklyn, police said.
The tree struck a 40-year-old woman and a 41-year-old woman as well as the children when it crashed around 5:30 p.m., police said.
Miraculously, all four suffered minor injuries.
The baby suffered a cut cheek, the little girl was left with a broken arm, the 40-year-old woman suffered head and wrist injuries and the 41-year-old woman suffered a head injury, authorities said.
The near miss coincided with a “missing” Long Island swimmer turning out to be alive and well.
The still-unidentified swimmer sparked fears Saturday when he was spotted jumping — and apparently disappearing — into 18-foot waves near Field 3 on the western tip of Fire Island.
But after learning he was being searched near Robert Moses State Park, the man contacted authorities to inform them he was OK, according to a joint statement from the New York State Police and New York State Park Police.
“The individual was found alive and well, and no further assistance from the public is needed at this time,” the release said.
Beyond the dangers to life and limb, the storm also gave rise to downright surreal scenes across the city.
Fadela, 40, a disconcerted mom from Queens, said she woke up Sunday morning to find fish swimming in her driveway.
“Look at the little fish!” “The fish swimming in the alley, a whole bunch of little ones! Look! It’s a first for us,” said Fadela, 40.
A happy seagull also dove, apparently in an attempt to catch fish swimming along a flooded street in Far Rockaway on Sunday, video taken by The Post showed.
The seagull’s dive was unsuccessful, as the shorebird’s legs were empty as it rose above the water.
The fishing expedition took place Sunday as water flooded Beach 84th Street and Beach Channel Drive.
The flooding not only brought schools of baitfish to normally dry land, but also prehistoric-looking horseshoe crabs.
Trash cans, heaters and other man-made debris were also washed away by the flood.
Meanwhile, a nasty wind in New Jersey sent smelly objects on the move.
Four runaway portable toilets were seen rolling around a Metlife Stadium car park, a viral video has shown.
” Attention ! » A man is heard screaming in the footage as patrons rush into the path of another man outside the stadium.
The takeout toilets eventually stopped, as seen in the video posted by Vintage.NewJersey on X.
Northeast flooding hit the city’s coastal neighborhoods starting Saturday, with Broad Channel — a sleepy waterfront neighborhood across the Far Rockaway Bridge — among the most flooded.
Residents like Bob, 77, began fearing on Sunday that the high tide could lead to a new wave of flooding.
“Beware of sharks!” “” he joked, before becoming serious. “If it’s like yesterday, it’s going to increase even more.”
Maurizio Cina, a 67-year-old retiree who has lived in Broad Channel for more than 35 years, spent the morning walking Cross Bay Boulevard to see the damage to his properties.
A block away from Cina’s impromptu investigation, water gushes like a fountain through sewer blockages.
“With the nor’easter, the full moon and then the high tide, it’s the flood trifecta for Broad Channel,” he said. “I haven’t seen it this bad, except for (Superstorm) Sandy.”
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