Story of the Hurricanes: A Timeline of New York Storms
1960: Hurricane Donna
Although Donna was not one of the strongest hurricanes in terms of wind-force, it did cause 11-foot storm surges in New York City, which demolished many of the piers in Brooklyn and downtown Manhattan. Also, the damage caused by Donna up and down the East Coast, makes it one of the top ten costliest hurricanes to strike in the last hundred years. Notable too is that hurricanes started getting names in the mid-1900s, so it’s much easier to keep track of them, now that they’re not all just “the great” this and “the great” that.
