A flooded city street with burning buildings, submerged trash bags, and a dead body floating among goldfish underwater.

A hyperrealistic, catastrophic, hallucinatory, surreal scene of a flooded Manhattan street in New York City. The steel beam of a traffic light is snapped in half, bent, jutting upward from rising, murky floodwater. A half-submerged Chinese restaurant on First Avenue sits among a row of damaged buildings, surrounded by shredded, torn-open trash bags drifting in the water, with loose garbage spilling and floating across the surface. Bright orange carp underwater swarm and feed on the debris pouring out of the ripped bags. Soft, watery silhouettes of dead, flattened human bodies drift like pale outlines in the current. Most surrounding buildings have collapsed inward, reduced to crumbled brick, broken stone, and partially submerged foundations scattered throughout the street. Only one three-story brownstone remains standing—isolated, scorched, and engulfed in flames, glowing against the stormy, smoke-filled sky. The mood resembles a hyperrealistic, broadcast-style disaster image seen on a news channel. Avoid all text, lettering, or signage. See more