In a briefing on Friday night, Gary Conte, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said there had been two tornadoes — one that reached up to 80 miles an hour in Park Slope, and a second near Flushing that reached 100 miles an hour — as well as a macroburst in Middle Village and Forest Hills, Queens, that generated winds up to 125 miles an hour.
From the air, some neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens looked like Lego masterpieces that angry children had done their best to sweep aside. Trees remained sprawled along the stately streets of Forest Hills, Queens. Two telephone-pole-thick pieces of one storm-ruined tree still blocked a street, pinning a blue sedan to the pavement.
One person was killed in the storm, a woman in a car that was hit by a tree as she was changing places with her husband. The woman, identified as Aline Levakis, 30, of Mechanicsburg, Pa., had pulled to the side of the Grand Central Parkway near Jewel Avenue in Queens
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