Here’s Where To Find The City’s Worst Slush Puddles

NEW YORK CITY – The slush puddles are drowning New York City's crosswalks.

An informal survey of Patch readers reported calf-deep lakes of icy water pooling at cross streets across the city as 18 inches of snow melts.

A common bane on city pedestrians, the puddles are somehow just too wide to leap and are always lapping just above boot height.

"There was 6” of slush on both sides of the crossing," said one reader who reported a puddle at E 33rd St and Third Avenue in Murray Hill. "In general there are uncrossable rivers of water."

Another said navigating a puddle outside the B/Q subway station at Church Avenue and 18th Street was death-defying.

"Walking into the street to go around the puddle at the corner, you take your life in your hands," the reader said.

At W. 95th Street and Columbus Avenue somebody reported seeing "a senior citizen wade through knee-deep water after realizing too late how deep the puddle was."

Adding to the icy mess was the amount of trash the melting snow washed into the crosswalks – coupled with overflowing garbage cans that sanitation crews were unable to empty.

"It's absolutely disgusting," said reader Caleb Pan of the intersection of Church Avenue and E. 18th Street in Flatbush.

The intersection of Church Avenue and E. 18th Street in Flatbush. Credit Caleb Pan

Here's the list of problem intersections identified by readers. Know of others? Let us know at patchnyc@patch.com using the subject line "slush puddles"

Seventh Ave and 31st Street

W 79 St and Broadway

W 53rd St and Seventh Av SW corner

Sixth Ave and W 27th St

E 33rd St and Third Ave

Caton Ave and 19th St

Livingston & Bond (goodwill corner)

Fifth Ave and Ninth St in Park Slope

33rd St and Second Ave

E 97th St and Madison Ave - NE corner

NE corner of W 95th Street and Columbus Avenue

Church Ave and E 18th st in Flatbush

Second Ave and E. 70th by The Beach (south/east side)

23rd Street & Fifth Ave