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Article Excerpt
Last Tuesday evening at about nine fifty-five, a thunderstorm with winds of up to seventy miles an hour--meteorologically, a "microburst," or a "downburst"--arrived from New Jersey, hit the Upper West Side, blasted across Central Park in a corridor extending from about Ninety-seventh Street to about 107th, and continued on into East Harlem, Randalls Island, and Co-op City. By about ten-thirty, it had raged itself out: some property damage, nobody hurt. Hundreds of trees, however, went down. Hundreds more were broken so badly that they will have to be removed. Two days after the storm, there were still leaves and twigs that had blown into the Ninety-sixth Street subway station, where their out-of-placeness underground gave...
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