Crosby, Stills, and Crash! Tree-branch-on-car collision sours folk night

A pair of Park Slope folk-music fans got a rude surprise on Tuesday night when they returned from a concert in Manhattan to find a massive tree branch lying atop their car.

The Prospect Park West couple, both media professionals, arrived back at their home near Seventh Street from a Crosby, Stills, and Nash concert at around 11:45 pm to discover half of the top of the tree sitting on, and sticking through the windshield of, their Subaru station wagon.

“We just came home and there was a car on top of our tree,” said a stunned Beth Petescia.

Her husband Chris gently corrected her.

Inci-dent: Chris Petescia said he is confident insurance will cover the deep dents and shattered windshield a fallen branch wrought on his and his wife’s Subaru.

Beth and Chris Petescia

“Vice versa,” he said.

The tree limb apparently came down during the brief rainstorm that swept through Brooklyn around 10:40 pm. A neighbor said he heard Fire Department personnel using a chainsaw on the block around 10:45 or 11, but an FDNY spokesman said he could not locate a record of what transpired there.

Tree parts came down across the city, but no one was injured, the spokesman said.

The worst aspect of the incident was that it was avoidable, Chris Petescia said.

Sigh of the storm: Tuesday night’s rainstorm barely registered with weather stations of record, but it apparently felled the top of this big tree, dropping it on two cars parked along Prospect Park West.

Community News Group / Nathan Tempey

“The funny thing is there were two spots open, and had we taken the one further back, the car wouldn’t have gotten hit,” he said.

A Hyundai sedan also sat in the imprint of the fallen branch and, a block towards Bartel Pritchard Square, another tree limb lay across the bike path, posing a hazard to night riders.