It isn't a secret that the New York Post is a somewhat right of center publication, so it isn't really a surprise that their slant on this story in Queens doesn't ask a pretty simple question.

What was a dead tree doing on the property adjacent to the street fair?

This dead tree that all of a sudden snapped and struck a woman, critically injuring her, should not have been left to sit there for as long as it did. Dead trees decompose and fall, and it was simply a matter of before this occurred.

The story in the Post quotes a store owner who calls it a freak accident, but we think there were quite a few other bystanders who asked "Why was a dead tree allowed to just sit on this property?"

It's a question that the accident victim's attorneys should be asking the owners of the property, who happen to be the New York and Atlantic Freight Railway.