Red Hook

The Weeping Willow at Van Brunt and King St., an old friend, has come down in the storm. The Red Hook neighborhood, an island at high tide during colonial times, was quite inundated last night and looks miserable today, but not crushed like the Jersey shore or the burned out neighborhoods on the Rockaway peninsula. Lots of basements flooded here. There was still water on Van Brunt, reaching nearly to Reed St. at noon.

And the lurid evidence of water-borne toxicity all over the streets and sidewalks: