Close Call on Gold Street
The owner of this SUV caught a lucky break yesterday when the high winds toppled this tree on Gold Street, narrowly missing the parked car. Anyone notice any tree damage anywhere else?
The owner of this SUV caught a lucky break yesterday when the high winds toppled this tree on Gold Street, narrowly missing the parked car. Anyone notice any tree damage anywhere else?
It looks like a Callery pear tree. They are known to be susceptible to breakage (from wind or ice) because of the way they branch. NYC Parks planted many as street rees but I think they have backed off recently.
A few down in Coffey Park. One big one crashed down on some benches and totally crushed them – lucky no one was sitting on them!
Prospect Park was crazy yesterday late afternoon! We were biking in there and saw a couple very big branches come down (not on the main road/path, thankfully–although the crosswinds were treacherous on a carbon bike!)…
meh, its a Ram, woulda done the person a favor in the long run.
Definitely lots of branches and even a few tree limbs down in GAP.
“If there was a bike lane there the SUV wouldn’t have been in danger.”
haha nice!
There was also a tree down on N7th btw Bedford and Berry this morning. Luckily it just missed the ’88 volvo station wagon parked on the street.
I walked by this yesterday and thought how lucky that guy was.
If there was a bike lane there the SUV wouldn’t have been in danger.