As the city began Tuesday to dry out from the record-breaking nor'easter, some residents have been left to deal with the damage caused by the storm.

On Staten Island, some residents aren't being allowed back into their homes, after a retaining wall collapse put their houses in danger. The heavy rain caused the 200’ wide, 20’ tall wall to collapse in Rosebank.

The wall had been separating houses on Waterview Court from the banks of The Narrows.

Thirty-two people were evacuated from nine townhouses, but nobody was injured.

The Red Cross is helping shelter some residents.

The Office of Emergency Management and the Department of Buildings say they're calling on the Army Corps of Engineers to find out whether the retaining wall can be fixed and whether the homes can be saved.

"Visually, the backyards are now gone. They've now washed into the harbor here,” said Sean Sweeney, chairman of Community Board 1. “And the idea now is to find when and if these houses can be — [when] the folks can re-enter."

South Beach residents spent Tuesday pumping out overflow from a local creek that left up to eight feet of water in some basements and backyards.

"This is the worst flood in the last, I would say, 50 years," said one area resident. "I'm only 60 something years old. I can only remember one more [as bad]."

Elsewhere, the Bronx River Parkway remained closed Tuesday southbound between Crane Road and Strathmore Road because of flooding.

Monday, the storm made the roadway indistinguishable from the river it's named after.

One FDNY SUV became stranded underwater at an entrance to the parkway. Officers with the NYPD's Emergency Service Unit had to use jet skis and boats to rescue the trapped fire department workers.

The flood waters also submerged several cars near the Westchester County border.

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