High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1821 Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane was one of four known tropical cyclones that have made landfall in New York City. Another, even more intense hurricane struck the region in pre-Columbian times (sometime between 1278 and 1438) and was detected by paleotempestological research. The third was the 1893 New York hurricane and the fourth was Hurricane Irene in 2011.