{"id":305769,"date":"2026-07-26T01:44:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305769\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T01:44:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:44:42","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-4-injured-after-tree-falls-in-bed-stuy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305769\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 4 Injured After Tree Falls In Bed Stuy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Four people were injured Saturday afternoon when a tree fell in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to officials and witnesses.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Emergency responders say the incident happened at approximately 3:58 p.m. in Herbert Von King Park, near the intersection of Green and Marcy avenues.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say the victims included three men, ages 54, 59 and 67, and a 29-year-old woman.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Witnesses described hearing a loud crash before they rushed to the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI heard the crash and I ran out. I saw the whole thing lying on its side,\u201d one witness said. \u201cThe older man, he had the brace on and he was bleeding bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The 67-year-old man was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Kings County for treatment. Authorities said his injuries were not considered life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Information on the conditions of the other injured victims was not immediately available as of Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The tree remained split and draped over a park fence hours after the incident, while the area around the park entrance was closed off with tape and barriers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Residents who live near the park said they have raised concerns for years about the condition of several trees there. They have called on the city&#8217;s Parks Department to trim or replace those that appear damaged or unhealthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people were injured Saturday afternoon when a tree fell in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to officials and witnesses. Emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-305769","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\/305769","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=305769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}