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Rain and high water is disrupting New York City traffic by road, rail and air.

The National Weather Service issued a citywide flash flood warning for the Sunday evening hours, urging motorists not to drive where water covers the roads. Hours later, flooding closed the Long Island Expressway in both directions at Utopia Parkway in Queens and an entrance ramp on the Jackie Robinson Parkway at Union Turnpike.

The high water slowed traffic on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway and suspended or delayed some Staten Island Railway service.

LaGuardia and JFK airports reported air traffic disruptions because of the rains, as did Newark Liberty International Airport.

(AP)