The Bronx is still recovering from a brutal Nor’easter two weekends ago that left 8,400 residents without power and felled dozens of trees in local parks.
By as late as last Wednesday, 700 residents were still in the dark. By late Wednesday evening all power had been restored, according to Con Edison.
A total of 258 emergency calls were made in the Bronx alone throughout the weekend. The final number of trees downed or split in the borough came to 165, according to Philip Abramson of the Parks Department. Additionally 65 limbs came off of trees and there were a reported 24 hanging limbs.
In Van Cortlandt Park, the storm knocked down 24 trees; four fell in St. James Park and one in Williambridge Oval Park.
Several cars parked along Sedgwick Avenue were damaged or destroyed when a pair of giant trees toppled over.
-David Greene contributed to thsi story.
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