An accident waiting to happen

Soshana Schwartz says she had called 311 repeatedly, and fruitlessly, since mid-July to complain about the tree tilting across the road near her home at 2748 Netherland Ave., so she wasn’t exactly surprised when it finally fell around 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 1. The Fire Department arrived later that evening to seal off the area with yellow tape, but she was still waiting the next day for a Parks Department crew to remove the tree and restore normal traffic to the busy street. The tree caused minimal damage, she said, with some branches damaging a kitchen window and downing a TV cable.