{"id":357819,"date":"2026-09-26T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357819\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T22:50:08","slug":"man-56-killed-by-falling-tree-in-brooklyn-amid-noreasters-heavy-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357819\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 56, killed by falling tree in Brooklyn amid nor\u2019easter\u2019s heavy winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 56-year-old man died after a tree fell on him Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn as heavy winds from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/09\/26\/noreaster-lashes-new-york-city-with-rain-intense-winds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nor\u2019easter<\/a> continued to whip the city.<\/p>\n<p>The man was struck by the tree in East New York around 3:24 p.m. at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nycha\/downloads\/pdf\/maps-guides\/brooklyn\/cypress-hills.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYCHA Cypress Hills Houses<\/a> at Euclid and Dumont Aves., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Footage from <a href=\"https:\/\/go.citizen.com\/wvRDwfW5K6b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Citizen<\/a> showed multiple firefighters working to extricate the victim from under the massive tree.<\/p>\n<p>EMS transported him to Brookdale Hospital where he died.<\/p>\n<p>The powerful early-season nor\u2019easter that pounded the East Coast Saturday downed trees and flooded New York City streets and roadways as it unleashed heavy rain and powerful winds across the five boroughs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 56-year-old man died after a tree fell on him Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn as heavy winds from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,133305,133304,9,24,29,63,305,110077,184,133306],"class_list":["post-357819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-cypress-hills-houses","tag-killed-by-tree","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-noreaster","tag-nyc","tag-nycha","tag-rain-storm","tag-tree-falls","tag-tree-kills-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357819","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=357819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}