Hurricane Irene's Aftermath, in Photos
The most dramatic photos of Hurricane Irene’s damage around Brooklyn were of downed trees and flooding on some streets. The co-op board at Mansion House in Brooklyn Heights voted to take down the tree pictured above, at 145 Hicks Street, a few years ago, but later reversed the decision in the face of community opposition….
The most dramatic photos of Hurricane Irene’s damage around Brooklyn were of downed trees and flooding on some streets. The co-op board at Mansion House in Brooklyn Heights voted to take down the tree pictured above, at 145 Hicks Street, a few years ago, but later reversed the decision in the face of community opposition. Irene settled the issue. Click through for other pictures readers submitted and a couple we saw around the web, including shots of flooding in Red Hook and Dumbo.
A tree that fell on Dekalb Avenue
Flooding on a Red Hook street, by James Spahr
This tree hit a car at 51 Joralemon in the Heights
Dumbo flooding, by Peter Hyman
A reader who walked through Prospect Park yesterday sent this shot in, saying some big trees in the southern section of the park had been felled.
A reader posted this one on the Forum of a branch that crashed down on an Avenue H house.
Another one from the Forum, this one of Windsor Terrace.
If the elm had been taken down last year, as the co-op board so correctly wished, this would not have happened. But when word got out, an uproar ensued and people with no stake at all in anything accused the board of wanton tree murder and other crimes against humanity. The board should have stuck to its guns. Its job is to protect the building and act in its best interests -not to try and please local dingbats and flakes.
If the elm had been taken down last year, as the co-op board so correctly wished, this would not have happened. But when word got out, an uproar ensued and people with no stake at all in anything accused the board of wanton tree murder and other crimes against humanity. The board should have stuck to its guns. Its job is to protect the building and act in its best interests -not to try and please local dingbats and flakes.