you’ll be alright. at the most, you are looking at very short term power shortages. most likely though, it may not even rain on monday in the nyc area. I was in houston when hurricane rita appeared. almost 4 million evacuated the city and nothing happened. except for this List of fallacies - Wikipedia
And that was supposed to be a cat 4 hurricane. This one’s supposed to be cat 2 at the most. which mean, if you are not on the coast, you are expecting heavy rain…and that’s it.