Hurricane Sandy: A Tree Falls In Brooklyn

November 7, 2012

by Emma Bally

Youth Journalism International reporter Emma Bally took these photos last week on South Portland and Dekalb near Brooklyn Tech High School in Brooklyn, New York, where trees had fallen on cars after Hurricane Sandy.

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