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.
Emergency personnel rushed to NYCHA’s Cypress Hills Houses at 700 Euclid Ave. just before 3:30 p.m.
Citizen app footage from the frightening scene inside a parking lot shows FDNY crews working to rescue the victim from underneath the tree…