What would happen if a major city flooded?

I've read several books where a major city, often New York City, floods. People live in the skyscrappers, sometimes for years afterwards. What would it be like if a city full of high skyscrapers was flooded for some period of time? Start with the initial impact, and include what it might be like until all of the buildings fell down. I'm most interested in the effects on the buildings, and how (if?) a culture could thrive in said buildings after the disaster struck.

A likely scenario that could trigger this is the sudden melting of either the Greenland or Antarctic ice sheet, for instance, but I'm not interested in the mechanism that caused it, more in the effects. Also, assume that the flooding happened something like the tide coming in, but it just kept building itself higher, such that there was enough time to react to the change, but not necessarily evacuate the city.

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