Pin Oak Stripped

This fine old pin oak on Washington Ave. in Clinton Hill was shock-shorn by the tornado and/or micro burst event of Thursday evening. The bole, or trunk, seems to have been well anchored, but all the limbs and branches were, shall we say, de-tasseled. For several hours, in fact, the limbs blocked the street. By today, most of the wood had been remove, but a good pile was still filling the unseen yard to the right. (My friend Nate had a wise observation: in Brooklyn, five people help to move the downed tree, while ten people take pictures of it.)

Prospect Park, meanwhile, suffered some serious damage in it’s northeast quadrant, near Grand Army Plaza, by the Endale Arch and the path to the Vale of Cashmere. Lots of trees down, many more limbs. We were clamoring over them today, breathing in that wonderful, but in this case unfortunate, smell of raw wood.