A slow-moving nor'easter continued to batter the Northeast on Sunday, bringing more rain, strong winds and another round of coastal flooding after a weekend that killed at least one person.

A New York City Housing Authority employee, Leighton Brown, 56, died Saturday afternoon after a tree fell on him in East New York, Brooklyn, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said. A man who had been reported missing after he was seen swimming off Fire Island on Saturday contacted police Sunday morning and was found unharmed, state police said.

Power outages across New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island peaked at about 136,000 Sunday morning and had fallen to about 82,000 by midafternoon, according to PowerOutage.us, as crews worked to restore service. Suffolk County on Long Island and Monmouth County, N.J., still had among the most outages.

The storm was drifting near the New Jersey coast Sunday morning and is expected to ease Sunday afternoon before moving away late Monday, according to the National Weather Service. Minor to moderate coastal flooding was expected with Sunday morning's high tide, and gusts of 40 to 50 mph remained possible from New Jersey to Long Island. More than 6 inches of rain had fallen in parts of southeastern Massachusetts and about 5 inches along the northern Jersey Shore.

How to stay safe:

Never drive or walk through floodwaters. Just 6 inches of moving water can knock a person down.

Move cars out of flood-prone areas before high tide.

If you live in a basement or ground-floor apartment, have more than one way out.

Stay away from downed power lines and report them to your utility or 911.

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About 68,000 homes and businesses in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts were still without power as of 3:40 p.m. Sunday, according to PowerOutage.us. That's half the peak of about 136,000 Sunday morning.

New York: about 23,500

Connecticut: about 20,500

New Jersey: about 19,400

Massachusetts: about 4,500

PSEG Long Island said its crews are working 16-hour shifts until every outage is fixed. The storm brought down more than 700 trees on Long Island and the Rockaways, the utility said Sunday morning.

Pounding surf from the nor'easter stripped sand off Nantucket's south shore Saturday and exposed a weathered section of a wooden ship, according to the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror.

The timbers turned up at Point of Breakers, near the town's sewer beds. It hasn't been confirmed which vessel they belong to. The site is close to where pieces believed to be from the Warren Sawyer surfaced a few years ago.

The three-masted schooner was carrying cotton and scrap iron from New Orleans to Boston when it ran aground near Miacomet Beach on Dec. 22, 1884.

Fans look on during the game between the New York Giants and Tennessee Titans at MetLife Stadium on September 27, 2026 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. A nor'easter is effecting the east coast with heavy rains. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

The New York Giants hosted the Tennessee Titans at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Sunday afternoon in wind and rain from the nor'easter. The National Weather Service had forecast northeast winds of 21 to 25 mph and gusts as high as 47 mph.

Both teams prepared for the conditions differently. Titans coach Robert Saleh said his team practiced with soaked footballs during the week, while Giants coach John Harbaugh said, "We made the wind really pick up, but the rain we did not. We couldn't make it rain. We didn't do wet balls."

The storm had already disrupted the stadium's schedule: AC/DC's Friday concert at MetLife was postponed to Oct. 2.

A person walks on the riverfront of Jersey city, New Jersey, as the lower Manhattan skyline looms in the fog on September 27, 2026. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP via Getty Images)

Four people were injured by a falling tree in Brooklyn, separate from the one that killed Leighton Brown on Saturday, The Weather Channel reported. The New York City Housing Authority said it was "deeply saddened by this tragic loss" of its employee.

By 9 a.m. Sunday, the city had received about 500 reports of downed trees, and about 2,500 customers in the five boroughs were without power, NYC Emergency Management said, according to ABC News. Residents can report fallen trees to 311.

The storm is expected to weaken and begin breaking up Sunday night, then slowly pull away from the coast Monday and exit the region by late Monday evening, ABC News reported.

Conditions should gradually improve Sunday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center, though showers and gusty winds will linger into Monday, especially in southern New England. Parts of coastal New Jersey and New England could get another 2 to 4 inches of rain through Monday, and flood watches remain in effect for eastern Massachusetts and all of Rhode Island until Monday night, ABC News reported.

Coastal flooding may also affect the Monday morning commute in some shoreline areas during high tide, according to The Weather Channel. Rip currents and rough surf will keep beaches dangerous from the Carolinas to southern New England through at least Sunday evening, the Weather Prediction Center said.

A man clears debris in front of a store following heavy rainfall and flooding in Sea Isle City, New Jersey, on September 27, 2026. (Photo by Matthew Hatcher / AFP via Getty Images)

About 110,000 homes and businesses remained without power across five Northeast states early Sunday afternoon, down from about 136,000 that morning, according to PowerOutage.us.

New Jersey had about 40,100 outages, led by Ocean County with about 13,100 and Monmouth County with about 10,500. New York had about 32,400, including nearly 14,800 in Suffolk County. Connecticut had about 26,500 and Massachusetts about 10,100.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Sunday that Jersey Shore communities had been "hit hard" by the storm, with "severe dune loss" in Brigantine and Atlantic City, ABC7 New York reported. Officials were monitoring the damage.

In Manasquan, Mayor Mike Mangan said Sunday's flooding was less severe than Saturday's and that beach erosion, rather than property damage, may be the storm's biggest lasting impact, ABC7 reported. Elevated homes helped limit damage, and the town saw a handful of vehicle rescues but no home rescues, he said.

Amtrak canceled all of its Saturday service in both directions on the New York–Boston corridor and planned to scrap Sunday departures before late afternoon, including the first 11 trains out of New York and the first 10 out of Boston, according to a Yahoo News report citing Amtrak's train status information.

The Long Island Rail Road halted Long Beach branch trains after flooding near Island Park, with shuttle buses connecting Long Beach and Valley Stream, News 12 reported. In Boston, the MBTA suspended westbound Green Line service, and in New Jersey, NJ Transit extended a suspension on its River Line light rail into Sunday.

A weather station at Montauk Point on the eastern tip of Long Island recorded an 81 mph gust early Saturday, the highest reading so far in the storm, according to the National Weather Service in New York. That's stronger than the 74 mph threshold for a Category 1 hurricane.

Other notable gusts included 74 mph in Surf City, N.J., and 71 mph at Stony Brook on Long Island's North Shore early Sunday.

Water on western Long Island Sound peaked at about 3.1 feet above the normal high-tide mark shortly before noon Sunday at Kings Point, N.Y., according to preliminary NOAA data. That was higher than Saturday night's peak but below the 3.4 feet reached Saturday.

In Queens, a street-level sensor on Davenport Court in Howard Beach recorded about 18 inches of water at midday, according to FloodNet, the flood-sensor network run by the city, CUNY and NYU. Sensors in the Rockaways, Rosedale and Broad Channel showed smaller amounts of flooding, generally under 8 inches.

Residents kayak down a flooded road during a nor'easter storm where a voluntary evacuation has been issued in the community on September 26, 2026 in Beach Haven West, New Jersey. (Photo by Ryan Murphy/Getty Images).

People in flooded coastal neighborhoods of New York and New Jersey took to kayaks and canoes over the weekend, paddling down streets past cars sitting in deep water, CBS News reported.

In Howard Beach, Queens, water ranged from several inches to more than a foot deep Saturday, according to CBS New York. A video posted by a storm chaser that morning showed two people paddling to the entrance of the Howard Beach–JFK Airport station, and it had drawn millions of views on X.

Water at Kings Point, N.Y., on western Long Island Sound, reached about 3 feet above the normal high-tide mark just after 11 a.m. Sunday and was still rising, according to preliminary NOAA data. That's already higher than the gauge reached with Saturday night's tide.

NYC Emergency Management had warned that the midday tide could bring moderate flooding to the coastal Bronx and northern Queens, including parts of Flushing and Astoria.

Members of the Hawaii Army National Guard help a resident leave his home as rainwater from nearby Hurricane Nolo floods a section of Mamalahoa highway Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, near Naalehu, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

The hurricane watch and tropical storm warning for Hawaii's Big Island have been lifted, and there are no coastal watches or warnings in effect for the islands, according to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. As of 11 p.m. HST Saturday, Nolo was about 200 miles south-southwest of South Point, moving west at 9 mph with 100 mph winds. It is still expected to become a major hurricane Sunday or Sunday night but stay well south of the main islands.

Emergency crews in Sea Bright, N.J., rescued a woman and her dog after their car became trapped in floodwaters, ABC7 reported, according to the Associated Press. In Surf City, a marina owner said customers reported boats and Jet Skis missing or blown off their lifts.

Farther south, flooding cut off highway access to North Carolina's Hatteras Island, stranding visitors, the AP reported.

Ted Friedli kayaks along a flooded section of Florence Avenue, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, in Long Branch, N.J. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

Storm damage is seen at businesses following heavy weather in Ocean City, New Jersey, on September 2, 2026. (Photo by Matthew Hatcher / AFP via Getty Images)

Water at Sandy Hook, N.J., reached about 3.3 feet above the normal high-tide mark shortly after 9 a.m. Sunday, nearly matching Saturday's peak, according to preliminary NOAA data. At the Battery in Lower Manhattan, water rose to about 2.9 feet above normal around 9:45 a.m., and Atlantic City reached about 2.8 feet.

NYC Emergency Management had warned that Sunday's midday tide could bring moderate flooding to the coastal Bronx and northern Queens, including parts of Flushing and Astoria.

Pedestrians cross Broadway during a rain storm in the South Boston neighborhood during a nor'easter, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Rain totals climbed overnight, with the heaviest amounts in southeastern Massachusetts and along the northern Jersey Shore, according to National Weather Service reports.

A volunteer observer north of New Bedford, Mass., measured 6.47 inches by Sunday morning, and Bridgewater, Mass., recorded more than 5 inches, according to the NWS in Boston. In New Jersey, Bradley Beach recorded about 5.1 inches and Long Branch about 4.4 inches, according to the NWS in Mount Holly. On Long Island, East Hampton and Southold recorded more than 3 inches, as did Howard Beach in Queens, the NWS in New York reported.

Up to 2 to 4 more inches are possible in parts of coastal New Jersey and New England through Monday, ABC News reported.

A car drives through a flooded street following heavy rainfall in Ocean City, New Jersey, on September 27, 2026. (Photo by Matthew Hatcher / AFP via Getty Images)

About 136,000 customers were without power across five Northeast states as of about 10:30 a.m. Sunday, according to PowerOutage.us, up sharply from Saturday.

New Jersey had about 57,700 outages, including more than 24,000 in Ocean County and 13,000 in Monmouth County. New York had about 36,300, with nearly 18,500 in Suffolk County. Connecticut had about 29,200 and Massachusetts about 11,300.

A 56-year-old New York City Housing Authority employee died Saturday after a tree fell on him near the Cypress Hills Houses in East New York, Brooklyn, CBS New York reported. Police said he was taken to a hospital around 3:30 p.m. and died of his injuries. CBS News identified him as Leighton Brown.

A man who had been the subject of a search after he was seen swimming in rough surf off Robert Moses State Park on Fire Island on Saturday was located alive and uninjured Sunday morning, New York State Police said. Police said the man contacted them after seeing news coverage of the search.

Most of Long Island and New York City had received 1 to 2 inches of rain by Saturday afternoon, according to National Weather Service reports. A weather station in Long Beach, N.Y., recorded 2.27 inches, one of the highest totals in the region. The NWS office in Upton, N.Y., measured 1.85 inches, and JFK Airport had 1.27 inches.

Forecasters expect the heaviest rain overnight. City officials said bands of rain falling at up to 1 inch an hour are expected from about 8 p.m. Saturday into Sunday morning, with some neighborhoods getting 2 to 3 inches more.

Emergency workers evacuated about 20 people from a waterfront Comfort Inn in Edgewater, N.J., on Saturday morning after its first floor flooded, and were going back for more, The New York Times reported.