{"id":300484,"date":"2026-07-20T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300484\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:42:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-marine-park-residents-raise-concerns-about-aging-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300484\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Marine Park Residents Raise Concerns About Aging Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Residents in Marine Park say aging trees have become a safety concern, especially during storms. They are now calling on the city to take action.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">John Loni said one tree in front of his home on Coleman Street has been leaning over for years. He said it hasn&#8217;t been pruned in about 15 years, despite multiple calls to the city. He said branches fall all the time and he&#8217;s afraid someone could get hurt.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Someone could be walking by like two days ago, it really wasn&#8217;t even a bad storm,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Two little kids were playing on the street. I would say within about 30 seconds, this branch came down. It&#8217;s frightening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 reached out to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation about these concerns and is waiting for a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents in Marine Park say aging trees have become a safety concern, especially during storms. They are now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-300484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300484","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=300484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}