NEW YORK (AP) — A man’s body was pulled from a flooded New York City basement Thursday during a rainstorm that shut down roadways and caused airport delays, authorities said.

A scuba team recovered the body of a 39-year-old man after firefighters received a call of a person trapped in a flooded basement in Brooklyn at about 4:30 p.m., police said. The man, whose name was not released, was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Some spots around the city saw record rainfall. Preliminary reports showed 1.8 inch (4.57 centimeters) of rain fell in Central Park on Thursday, which would surpass the record of 1.64 inches (4.17 centimeters) set for the park in 1917, the National Weather Service said. LaGuardia Airport recorded 1.97 inch (5 centimeters) of rain, which would break the 1955 record of 1.18

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