The big surge is starting and boy is it starting. Water is surging into low lying areas all over the city. "Water St. living up to it's name," one tipster wrote into us. And if you wanted to know what 14th Street looks like underwater, well here is 14th Street and Avenue C looking west:

That was taken by Gothamist tipster Jeff Hahn, but we're hearing reports of flooding on Avenue C all the way up to 20th Street. Are you still high and dry?