Two people died Thursday in NYC​ when flash flooding filled basements from Crown Heights, Brooklyn to Washington Heights on the Upper West Side.

Much of the rainfall came in an intense 20-minute period in the afternoon, officials said. A record two inches fell at LaGuardia Airport.

Sources told The Post that the victim originally made it out of his flooding home, but doubled back to save his dogs. It’s unclear what happened to the dogs.

The Manhattan man killed in Thursday's record-setting rainstorm complained multiple times about the flood-prone basement where he died, according to a tenant. First responders found Juan Carlos Montoya Hernandez, 43, dead in the flooded boiler room at a building on West 175th Street and Broadway in Washington Heights.

Torrential rain battered Brooklyn on Thursday, flooding streets, submerging cars and leaving at least one person dead as parts of the borough saw nearly three

The Brooklyn resident who died trying to rescue his pets from his flooded basement is the notorious “Torah Man” – who once turned heads for wearing a bizarre outfit made entirely of religious texts to court,

Brooklyn was soaked with about 2 inches of rain on Thursday, with parked cars submerging in water all across the borough including Sheepshead Bay, Midwood and Bed-Stuy. One Wingate resident died after trying to save his pet dogs from his basement.