{"id":66212,"date":"2026-08-03T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/66212\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:08:08","slug":"fallen-tree-crushes-cars-in-queens-as-high-winds-and-heavy-rains-batter-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/66212\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallen tree crushes cars in Queens as high winds and heavy rains batter NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

A falling tree destroyed two cars in Queens as high winds and torrential rain battered the city Monday.<\/p>\n

The roughly 65-foot-tall 90-year-old tree plummeted onto a silver 2003 Mercedes-Benz E-320 and a gray 2025 Hyundai Elantra parked on 86th Ave. near the Cross Island Parkway in Bellerose.<\/p>\n

Payal Mathur, 27, was working at her home office when she heard \u201ca big crash\u201d and looked out her window shortly before 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw the tree come right towards us,\u201d said Mathur, who owns the damaged Elantra. \u201cIt completely crushed the fence, crushed the car. I don\u2019t know the damage, but it\u2019s totaled.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA large tree on top of a silver 2003 Mercedes Benz E-320 on 86th Ave. near the Cross Island Parkway North Service Road in Queens on Monday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Mathur, who was home with her father, grandfather and dog, said the tree narrowly missed crushing her house. Her car remained unreachable hours later behind a thick tangle of leaves and branches.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou got to look on the bright side,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Mercedes owner, Roland Vergel De Dios, was in Queens visiting family when his car\u2019s rear windshield and trunk were crushed by the falling tree.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a wind. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a twister. It was like a circle of wind. (My wife) said she\u2019d never seen that before,\u201d said Vergel De Dios, 67. \u201cIt took the tree down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA large tree on top of a silver 2003 Mercedes Benz E-320 on 86th Ave. near the Cross Island Parkway North Service Road in Queens on Monday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Vergel De Dios, who lives in Canada, said he and his wife have now been forced to extend their visit as they scramble to find an alternate way home.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t go back now,\u201d said Vergel De Dios.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s storm downed trees across the city, including in Gramercy where a fallen tree blocked traffic on E. 18th St. near Second Ave.<\/p>\n

\"AA large tree on top of a gray 2025 Hyundai Elantra on 86th Ave. near the Cross Island Parkway North Service Road in Queens on Monday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The NYC Emergency Management Department issued a flash flood warning<\/a> as New Yorkers endured heavy rain, scattered thunderstorms and wind gusts.<\/p>\n

The foul weather sent trees toppling across the city, including on the Upper West Side in Manhattan and in Woodside, Queens, where a food truck was struck by a fallen tree<\/a>, according to ABC.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s Parks Department on Monday received 269 reports of damaged or fallen trees, 92 of them for downed trees, a spokeswoman for the agency said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of these reports may be duplicates,\u201d she said. \u201cParks forestry staff is currently reviewing incoming requests and creating work orders for storm-damaged trees. Our Parks crews are clearing fallen trees as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A falling tree destroyed two cars in Queens as high winds and torrential rain battered the city Monday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20951],"tags":[910,4841,25612,2381,1304,3622,902,8190,37855,42,37854,44912,37856],"class_list":["post-66212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mercedes-benz","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}