Residents in Canarsie mourned the loss of their neighbor Leighton Brown, a NYCHA worker who was fatally struck by a falling tree during this weekend’s nor’easter.
It happened Saturday at the Cypress Hills Houses in East New York.
A NYCHA spokesperson told News 12 on Monday that Brown “was working an extra maintenance shift to support the storm response efforts.”
Sam Mills, of Canarsie, said he saw Brown while he was on his way to work – just hours before he died.
“I lost a good friend,” said Mills. “We spent a lot of time together talking about life. He was just a nice person inside and out.”…