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Photos: Hurricane Irene : Slideshow

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Listener Eden
A car is submerged on the Hutchinson River Parkway, in Vernon, N.Y.
Gary Holtzman
Flooding in Hoboken, N.J.
Sharon O'Brien
Flooding along Saint Georges Ave, in Rahway, N.J.
Sharon O'Brien
Flooding at Rahway River Park, in Rahway, N.J.
Sharon O'Brien
Flooding on Union County Parkway, in Clark, N.J.
Sharon O'Brien
Water gushes along Valley Road, in Clark, N.J.
Beth Middleworth
Fallen branches at Monsignor McGolrick Park, in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Michael Schwartz
Listener Michael Schwartz and his family evacuated their home in Staten Island, because it was classified as a Type A flood area.
Julie Blattberg
Martin Brothers Wines & Spirits, on the Upper West Side of New York, New York, gave passersby a handy hurricane checklist.
Melissa S. Armstrong
Fallen trees at Maria Hernandez Park, in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Sean de Ganon
A listener snapped this photo of people swimming and floating in a flooded street, in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
Leah Siepel
Fallen trees in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Lauren Roche
More fallen trees block streets in Brooklyn, New York.
Joe Tacopino
Customers cleaned out this store's supply of water in Stapleton, on Staten Island in New York.
Mitchell Wright
Dark storm clouds hung heavy over New York City, as seen here from Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Fedele Spadafora
Two women find an inventive way to walk their dog, in Riverside Park on the Upper West Side of New York, New York.
Flooding along Strickland Road, in the Cos Cob neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut.
Listener Mikia
Large puddles formed on the grasses at Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, New York.
David Johnson
A puddle formed on an empty lawn in Central Park, in New York, New York.
Olya Turcihin
Fallen tree branches sit atop a massive puddle on Roosevelt Island, in New York, New York.
Evan Nee
Skies darken in Springfield, Vermont, where the storm has caused flooding across the state.
Amma Prempeh
A fallen tree in Lower Manhattan, New York.
David Henry
Photo taken at Carl Schurz Park, on the Upper East Side of New York, NY.
Flooding along Strickland Road, in the Cos Cob neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut.
Christina Siess
Photo taken in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Sarah Burton
Listener Sarah Burton writes: "The photo is taken of a car 'for sale' on E 2nd Street. Sold, to Irene." The photo is from the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Christina Siess
Photo taken at Maria Hernandez Park, in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Colby Hamilton
Photo taken in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
A flooded street in downtown Millburn, New Jersey.
Adam Putnam
Tarps line the top of a building in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in an attempt to prevent flooding.

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