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N.Y.C. Housing Worker, 56, Killed by Falling Tree from Nor’Easter’s Extreme Wind
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- Sep 27, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC
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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.
Leighton Brown, the NYCHA worker killed by a falling tree during Saturday’s nor’easter, had an eerily prescient final conversation about the frailty of life with one of his neighbors before heading out to work.