High winds bring down a branch in Tompkins Square Park

Late this afternoon, around 5, a tree branch came crashing down inside the Ninth Street and Avenue A entrance to Tompkins Square Park. (Thanks to the reader for the above photo.) '

The branch fell about 10 feet from Derek Berg while walking with Wilfie. 

He took these photos ... including after the FDNY responded to the scene...

According to the Weather Channel, New York Harbor is under a gale warning until 8 p.m. Gusts could hit 40 mph.

Saturday's opening shot

A reader report of a downed limb on 12th Street just east of Avenue A... and on a tree with a notice for a pesticide application in recent days...

Tree limb down in Tompkins Square Park

For the third time in the past month, a tree branch has fallen in Tompkins Square Park.

Goggla shares this photo from this morning... showing the broken branch on the tree east of the main lawn and along the Eighth Street and Ninth Street entrances on Avenue B. 

From the silver lining department, unlike the last two fallen limbs (here and here), this did not occur in an area where people would be walking, sitting, etc.

Near-miss in Tompkins Square Park as branch falls

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Tompkins Square Park, a large branch from a majestic American Elm came crashing down to the ground inside the Avenue A-St. Mark's Place entrance...

Witnesses said it came very close to hitting a man in a wheelchair (thanks to Janie Heath for the clip)...

   

This is the second branch to fall in the Park in recent weeks... on May 16, a young parkgoer escaped injuries after being hit by a limb that fell in the dog run — also on a calm, sunny day.

Updated:

CS on B shared this panoramic shot...

Parkgoer escapes injury after a branch falls in the Tompkins Square Park dog run

Photos by Steven 

Parkgoers are buzzing about a tree limb that fell early last evening in the Tompkins Square Park dog run.

According to several witnesses, the branch struck and knocked over a young woman believed to be in her teens who was inside the dog run. 

Bystanders rushed to her aid and were relieved to see she was OK. (One witness said that she was screaming, though apparently about the bugs she encountered in the fall.)

This morning, a concerned parkgoer told us: "I have been asking [the Parks Department] for years to prune the trees in the dog run. Look at the rest of the trees in the park, then look at the trees in the run, which hundreds of people sit under every day. This happened last night ... with no wind or storms."

[Updating] Snowvember pain: Multiple reports of trees down

There are reader reports of branches/trees down this evening on Sixth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B (thanks Riian Kant-McCormick) ...



11th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C (thanks Brian P. Katz) ...





Another view (thanks Brucie!)...



Tompkins Square Park at the Avenue A/St. Mark's Place entrance (thanks Derek Berg) ...



Updated 6:08 p.m.

There's also a downed limb on Second Avenue between Ninth Street and 10th Street (thanks Alice Owen) ...



...and several branches down on St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue...

Actually all of st marks is downed trees. pic.twitter.com/0jLBCxU1r5

— EdenBrower (@edenbrower) November 15, 2018

Updated 6:22 p.m.

Via Twitter, EVG readers have reported limbs down on Seventh Street between Avenue B and Avenue C ... 10th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue... and Fifth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...

Here's a report on the downed trees, still full of leaves, via NBC 4. ... The combination of the leaves with the wet, heavy snow was too much for some of trees.

Updated 6:49 p.m.

A report from 10th and C...

Snow brought down a massive branch of a tree across East 10 St. and Avenue C. Neighbors came out of their apartments and stores to help clear the street.@evgrieve @edenbrower #FirstSnow #snowday #nycsnow pic.twitter.com/84dfLcay8i

— Evan Kapitansky (@evan_kapitansky) November 15, 2018

Updated 6:51 p.m.

Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue (thank you Steven)...



Updated 6:53

EVG reader Helixx C. Armageddon shared this from Suffolk and Stanton ... the police officer on the scene said that three people were injured, though the severity of their injuries isn't known...



Updated 8:45 p.m.

EVG reader Lauren notes down limbs on Second Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue ... and on Bleecker ...





Updated 9 p.m.

Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B (thanks @jeffchatterton!) ...



Fourth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C (thanks @artisanmatters) ...



Updated 9:50 p.m.

14th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue (thanks Pinch)...

Limb down in Tompkins Square Park

EVG reader the Philosophical Zombie shared these photos from Tompkins Square Park... where a limb broke off near the entrance on Seventh Street and Avenue B this afternoon...



Luckily no one was injured...

Noted

EVG reader Carl Bentsen shares this photo... showing that someone used a branch to smash the back window of this Lexus on Third Street between Avenue A and Avenue B... the branch has been at the Miracle Garden down the street...