{"id":357801,"date":"2026-09-26T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357801\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T22:10:08","slug":"brooklyn-man-killed-from-falling-tree-as-noreasters-extreme-winds-slam-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357801\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn man killed from falling tree as nor&#8217;easter&#8217;s extreme winds slam NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was killed by a falling tree in Brooklyn on Saturday, the first casualty of the<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/26\/us-news\/noreaster-to-pummel-east-coast-through-sunday-night-with-8-inches-of-rain-and-80mph-wind-gusts-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> nor\u2019easter that is bearing down<\/a> with extreme wind gusts on the Atlantic Coast.<\/p>\n<p>A 56-year-old man suffered \u201ctrauma throughout his body\u201d when heavy winds brought down the tree near 700 Euclid Avenue in East New York around 3:30 p.m., a police spokesman told The Post.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.56097561;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41007423\" width=\"921\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/700-euclid-ave-brooklyn-ny-142666541.jpg\" alt=\"A blue SUV parked in front of a brick building at 700 Euclid Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11208.\" class=\"wp-image-41007423\"\/> Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified man was rushed in critical condition to Brookdale Hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after 5 p.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/25\/us-news\/noreaster-to-bring-weekend-flooding-high-winds-to-nyc-area\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wind gust speeds reached up to 60 mph<\/a> on Saturday \u2014 and are expected to shoot up to as high as 80 mph in some areas on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed by a falling tree in Brooklyn on Saturday, the first casualty of the nor\u2019easter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,899,57,9,24,63,58,133],"class_list":["post-357801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-extreme-weather","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-us-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357801","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=357801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}