Photos: Nor'easter Floods Red Hook Streets

RED HOOK, BROOKLYN -- A small lake formed in Red Hook this weekend as a Nor'easter slammed New York City, photos show.

Several Brooklynites took to Twitter Saturday afternoon to share photos of Van Brunt Street near the waterfront, where water cascaded over the Red Hook Dock and almost consumed a parked SUV.

"It was bad," wrote Melissa Haynes. "End of Van Brunt is a lake."

Photos posted by photographer Ben Duchac show the water pouring in from the Red Hook Channel onto the street next to Fairway Market and a row of artists' studios.

It's the same street that became "a fast moving river" when Hurricane Sandy hit the city in October 2012, the New York Times reported at the time.

Red Hook is one of several New York City neighborhoods still waiting for the resiliency infrastructure promised by then-mayor Michael Bloomberg in an extensive report, "Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency," which was released one year after Hurricane Sandy hit the city.

But plans have stalled as federal groups, city agencies, and local resiliency advocates debate how to best protect Red Hook from future storms and how much that protection should cost, according to an in-depth report from The Red Hook Star Review.

NYCHA has also faced setbacks in its resiliency plans, reporting earlier this year that the Red Hook Houses, and 33 other public housing developments, would not be completed until 2021.

The nor'easter that hit New York on Oct. 27 was expected to bring wind gusts as strong as 50 MPH and drench the city with up to 2 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service.

Photos courtesy of Ben Duchac