{"id":357829,"date":"2026-09-26T23:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T23:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357829\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T23:06:09","slug":"news-12-bronx-falling-tree-kills-nycha-employee-in-east-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357829\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Falling Tree Kills Nycha Employee In East New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says a 56-year-old man was struck and killed by a falling tree in East New York during the storm Saturday. The New York City Housing Association (NYCHA) tells News 12 the victim was a NYCHA employee.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Emergency personnel rushed to NYCHA&#8217;s Cypress Hills Houses at 700 Euclid Ave. just before 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Citizen app footage from the frightening scene inside a parking lot shows FDNY crews working to rescue the victim from underneath the tree.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say paramedics rushed the man to Brookdale Hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">His identity is pending family notification.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A NYCHA spokesperson issued the following statement.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWe can confirm that this individual was a NYCHA employee. We are deeply saddened by this tragic loss and extend our heartfelt condolences to his family and the NYCHA community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD says a 56-year-old man was struck and killed by a falling tree in East New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-357829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357829","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=357829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}