{"id":1082,"date":"2025-10-14T09:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/1082\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:07:10","slug":"noreaster-claims-nyc-fatality-as-brooklyn-woman-killled-by-flying-solar-panel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/1082\/","title":{"rendered":"Nor\u2019easter claims NYC fatality as Brooklyn woman killled by flying solar panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 76-year-old Brooklyn woman became the first known NYC fatality tied to the powerful nor\u2019easter that battered the region when she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/hazstat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:struck in the head and killed by a solar panel that blew off a carport;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">struck in the head and killed by a solar panel that blew off a carport <\/a>at an outdoor parking lot, police and the city Buildings Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The freak accident \u2013 attributed to the powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/10\/13\/nyc-nj-noreaster-flooding-wind-gusts-roads-closed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:nor\u2019easter winds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">nor\u2019easter winds<\/a> \u2013 happened about 10:30 a.m. Sunday near Ocean Parkway and Brighton Beach Ave., not far from the beaches along southern Brooklyn, as Lyudmila Braun as walking down the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cShe was my wife,\u201d a distraught Mark Braun told the Daily News Monday. \u201cWe were married [for] more than 50 years. 52 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201d\u201cI am not doing well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said a solar panel 3 feet 5 inches wide and 7 feet 3 inches long blew loose from a steel carport structure, flew 20 feet in the air and hit the victim in her head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim, knocked to the ground by the impact, was rushed by medics to <a href=\"https:\/\/nyulangone.org\/locations\/nyu-langone-hospital-brooklyn?cid=syn_yext&amp;y_entity_id=1005&amp;y_source=1_MTUzMDE0NjgtNzE1LWxvY2F0aW9uLndlYnNpdGU%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn<\/a>, where she was pronounced dead at 11:09 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Buildings Department said it issued a partial vacate order to the company listed in city finance records as the owner of the parking lot, which it identified as Trump Village Apartments Two Owner LLC. The city told the company to clear the lot south of the carport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The company did not return a request for comment Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trump Village was opened in 1964 by President-elect Trump\u2019s father, real estate developer Fred Trump. It was not immediately clear if the Trump organization still had any connection to the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The nearest entrance to the Q train subway station was also closed Sunday and remained closed Monday, though straphangers could still use other entrances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 76-year-old Brooklyn woman became the first known NYC fatality tied to the powerful nor\u2019easter that battered the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1369,98,1347,1366,1367,1368,9,56,63,65,64,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-1082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brighton-beach","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-buildings-department","11":"tag-fred-trump","12":"tag-lyudmila-braun","13":"tag-mark-braun","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news","19":"tag-solar-panel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}