Park Slopers File More Than 100 Damage Complaints After Ida: Data

PARK SLOPE, 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 Park Slope, residents appear to have heeded that call. From the evening of Sept. 1 — when the storm rolled in — through Wednesday, neighbors in Park Slope's two ZIP codes have filed 185 complaints to 311 about flooding, water damage, fallen trees and utility outages, city records show. That's more than four times than the week before, when only 39 complaints came in.

Mapping the complaints helps show which parts of the neighborhood 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 nearby areas like Borough Park and that the tropical weather system brought high levels of water even to elevated areas like Crown Heights, that often stay unscathed by severe weather.

The majority of complaints in Park Slope on Wednesday and in the days since the storm have been for flooding, which account for more than 120 of the 185 calls to 311, data shows.

As a whole, Park Slope 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.

Still, given the nearby Gowanus Canal, some Park Slope officials have pointed to the storm as a reason the Gowanus Rezoning needs to more thoroughly consider impacts of climate change on the area.