Significant hurricane damage in southwest Brooklyn, officials say
Hurricane Sandy showed her wrath in Bay Ridge and other neighborhoods in southwest Brooklyn in a variety of ways, including toppling trees, knocking out electrical power to thousands of residents, and breaching the seawall on Shore Parkway, according to local officials.
Josephine Beckmann, district manager of Community Board 10, said Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, the two neighborhoods the board covers, had dozens of fallen trees, including trees with branches resting precariously over private homes. “We have a lot of downed trees on the streets between 70th and 82nd Streets. At 654 Bay Ridge Parkway, there is a large tree leaning on a house,” said Beckmann, who spoke to a reporter by telephone shortly after she returned to her office from an inspection tour of the area on Oct. 30.
Thousands of Dyker Heights residents lost electrical power during the hurricane. “The area from 65th Street to 86th Street from Fort Hamilton Parkway to 13th Avenue has no electricity,” Beckmann said.