{"id":358191,"date":"2026-09-27T16:46:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358191\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:46:26","slug":"news-12-westchester-falling-tree-kills-nycha-employee-in-east-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358191\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Falling Tree Kills Nycha Employee In East New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 56-year-old NYCHA worker was killed Saturday after a tree fell on him in East New York, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Detectives say the tree came down around 3:30 p.m. in the parking lot of 700 Euclid Ave. in the Cypress Hills development and pinned Leighton Brown to the ground.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Citizen app video shows first responders rushing to the scene and performing CPR before the worker was taken to a hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbors say it was one of several trees that toppled over in the development during the severe weather.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Longtime Cypress Hills resident Kevin Duran says he knew the worker as \u201cMr. Brown\u201d and described him as a hardworking and friendly man.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cIf I seen him in the morning\u2026I\u2019d stop to talk to him,\u201d Duran said. \u201cHe was funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">NYCHA told News 12 in a statement, \u201cWe are deeply saddened by this tragic loss and extend our heartfelt condolences to his family and the NYCHA community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Several neighbors also said trees throughout the development have been marked with X&#8217;s to indicate they may be scheduled for removal because of safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It remains unclear whether the tree that killed the worker was among those marked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 56-year-old NYCHA worker was killed Saturday after a tree fell on him in East New York, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-358191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358191","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=358191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}