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NYCHA employee killed by falling tree in Brooklyn as nor'easter impacts region
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- Sep 26, 2026, 10:19 PM UTC
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Brooklyn, coextensive with Kings County, is the most populous of the five boroughs and counties of New York City, New York. Located at the westernmost end of Long Island and formerly an independent city, Brooklyn shares a land border with the borough and county of Queens. It has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan, across the East River, including the architecturally significant Brooklyn Bridge, and is connected to Staten Island by the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge.
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Leighton Brown was a maintenance supervisor. He was walking by a massive tree on Saturday afternoon around 3:30 when part of it fell and hit and killed the 56-year-old.
A maintenance supervisor was walking by a massive tree when part of it fell and hit and killed him.
Detectives say the tree came down around 3:30 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot of 700 Euclid Ave. in the Cypress Hills development and pinned the man to the ground. Mayor Zohran Mamdani named the victim as Leighton Brown.