A 56 year-old man was killed by a falling tree in East New York on Saturday.
The NYPD said officers responded to 700 Euclid Ave. shortly before 3:30 p.m. and found the man in critical condition. They said police transported the man to Brookdale Hospital, where he died.
The NYPD said it could not confirm whether winds from this weekend’s nor’easter caused the tree to fall, but officials have encouraged residents to stay home to keep safe amid gusts topping 55 miles an hour.
City officials said earlier Saturday that the Parks Department had received hundreds of requests for help with downed or damaged trees since Friday, mostly in Queens and Brooklyn.
The department wrote on X it expected to be cleaning up from the storm for days.
It urged people to report emergencies and downed power lines to 911, and fallen or damaged trees to 311, or via the city’s damaged tree map.