"It's a huge old tree. It's pretty crazy, I hope it didn't land on anyone. Thomas Wee, 27, observed the fallen tree stretched across Park Place in Crown Heights, its branches draped across several parked cars, expressing concern about potential injuries from the massive tree that had stood in the neighborhood for decades."
"There's several trees that was bent over on other blocks and then just the other day my girlfriend was like 'oh this tree looks like it's about to fall'... and now I'm going to work and I see this tree fall and I'm like 'Damn, I think the other trees may fall, too.' It's crazy, it looks like they're going to have to do inspections on the rest of the streets."
"It's very hard to say what can or can't be done when you have a massive snowstorm, but I can say that the parks department is unable to care for the trees that it's supposed to be taken care of. They're short-staffed, insanely short-staffed within the forestry division."
A large thornless honeylocust tree that had stood for decades in Crown Heights fell during Monday's blizzard, damaging parked cars and fire escapes. The parks department removed it on Tuesday. The storm dumped over 20 inches of snow across the five boroughs and toppled 47 trees total, with crews still removing seven from streets on Wednesday. New Yorkers submitted 1,800 reports about downed trees to the 311 system, though many were duplicates. Long-time residents expressed concern about other trees potentially falling, and advocates noted that budget cuts have left the parks department understaffed and unable to properly maintain city trees.
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