{"id":238942,"date":"2026-05-21T03:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238942\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T03:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:17:08","slug":"downed-tree-branches-litter-brooklyn-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238942\/","title":{"rendered":"Downed Tree Branches Litter Brooklyn Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Broken tree branches littered a street in Brooklyn, New York, on Wednesday, May 20, as a <a data-ylk=\"slk:severe thunderstorm;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSNewYorkNY\/status\/2057221992965693902\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">severe thunderstorm<\/a> rolled through the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage captured by Igor Rudenko shows damaged and broken tree branches strewn across West 11th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <a data-ylk=\"slk:National Weather Service;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSNewYorkNY\/status\/2057221992965693902\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service<\/a> issued a thunderstorm warning for much of New York, with winds of 60 mph and penny-sized hail possible. Credit: Igor Rudenko via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broken tree branches littered a street in Brooklyn, New York, on Wednesday, May 20, as a severe thunderstorm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[93367,98,100,99,93368,534,9,24,63,93364,93366,93365],"class_list":["post-238942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-broken-tree-branches","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-igor-rudenko","tag-national-weather-service","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-severe-thunderstorm","tag-thunderstorm-warning","tag-west-11th-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238942","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=238942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}