How raised entrances, flood gates, and huge balloons could save New York’s subway from disaster.

The MTA shut down the subway system on Sunday night, to prepare for Hurricane Sandy, and today the agency expressed concerns about salt water corroding switches.

The brutal morning commute highlighted an undeniable reality: the subway system remains vulnerable to floods, despite billions in investments since Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and Hurricane Ida in 2021.

Disastrous floods like those seen during Hurricane Sandy in 2012 may hit New York City 17 times more often in the next century, a new study finds.

Transit officials are preparing for an “unprecedented” storm surge that threatens to flood the subway tunnels for the first time in 20 years and knock out service for days.

Pump Train, a browser-based arcade-style game, charges players with a task taken on by real-life New York MTA workers following Hurricane Sandy: pumping water out of overflowing subway stations ...

Sandy brings death, flooding, outages Flooding was a huge problem everywhere. New York City’s subway tunnels were soaked as water coursed into elevator shafts.

Rains once again inundated the New York subway system, showing how vulnerable it remains to water nearly a decade after Sandy.

It has been ten years since Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc in much of the Mid-Atlantic region and many other places. Sandy was no ordinary hurricane. She came very late in the hurricane season, but ...

An IG audit found the MTA has underestimated how long it takes to deploy $350M worth of flood control devices installed since Hurricane Sandy — leaving the system vulnerable to severe water damage.