Bed-Stuy Area Files More Than 600 Damage Complaints After Storm

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN —After the remnants of Hurricane Ida pounded the city last week, officials asked New Yorkers to call 311 to report damage to their homes or streets.

In Bed-Stuy, residents appear to have heeded that call. From the evening of Sept. 1 — when the storm rolled in — through Wednesday, neighbors in Bed-Stuy's ZIP codes have filed 617 complaints to 311 about flooding, water damage, fallen trees and utility outages, city records show. That's more than three times than the week before, when only 198 complaints came in.

The ZIP codes also includes parts of Williamsburg, Brownsville, Crown Heights and Clinton Hill.

Mapping the complaints helps show which parts of the Bed-Stuy area suffered damage from the record rainfall and subsequent flooding, which Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said was unlike anything he's seen in the borough.

Zoom in and click through the map below to explore each damage report. (Blue markers indicate flooded sewers and streets; yellow markers are water leaks in buildings; green are damaged or fallen trees and street signs, and red are hot water or heating outages.)

On the night of the storm, neighbors looked out their windows to find streets flooded several feet high and water gushing from drains across Brooklyn, according to videos.

Adams said as much as 12 to 13 feet of water were found in homes in areas like Borough Park and that the tropical weather system brought high levels of water even to elevated areas like Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights, which often stay unscathed by severe weather.

The majority of complaints in the Bed-Stuy area on Wednesday and in the days since the storm have been for flooding, which account for more than 300 of the calls to 311, data shows.

As a whole, Bed-Stuy was not among the neighborhoods most hard-hit by the storm, which included parts of Queens that saw nearly all of the 13 deaths that occurred within the five boroughs. Officials have also pointed to a high level of damage in the Bronx.