NEW YORK CITY — The worst of the overnight storm had passed through the city by Tuesday morning, but not before clocking winds as high as 54 mph in Jackson Heights, forecasters said.
The Queens neighborhood saw the highest wind gusts, while Crown Heights had the highest sustained winds at 41 mph, according to totals released by the National Weather Service Tuesday morning.
The most rain fell in Central Park, which collected 1.68 inches of rain by 4:24 a.m., forecasters said.
Officials said the storm left the city relatively unscathed, with few power outages and downed trees.
"We've gotten through it pretty good," Joseph Esposito, commissioner of the Office of Emergency Management, told 1010 WINS on Tuesday morning.
Esposito, however, warned morning commuters to watch for flooding and ponding on the roads through Broad Channel, the Rockaways, Staten Island and the Belt Parkway on Tuesday morning.
"Your normal areas where commuters see that ponding affect on the road, they're going to see it," he said.
"I'm concerned that these folks use a little extra caution on the commute," the commissioner said.
Subways were running with routine delays as of 8 a.m., according to the MTA's service advisory page.
