Wet weather downs trees across New York, New Jersey

The weather overnight sent trees toppling onto cars and homes in New York and New Jersey.

The clean-up began Sunday, though rain is expected to return Monday.

Weather damage in New Jersey

In Linden, New Jersey, a fallen tree damaged Robert Goldson's house.

"All we heard was– it felt like an earthquake," he said. "We seen all the trunk basically tore up my garage in the back end of my house, so basically, the fire department got it."

Goldson's home is now considered uninhabitable; the gas, power and water were shut off out of precaution.

His family had been planning on heading out of town for the holiday weekend.

"We're supposed to be going to Maryland. So I don't know if we'll be going now," he said. "It's depending on what they say about the house."

In Secaucus, New Jersey, part of Route 3 flooded near the Rodeway Inn. Crews were on scene to pump out the water. Local businesses did not appear to be affected, but traffic was impacted.

Weather damage in NYC

Meanwhile, in New York City, a large tree fell across bike lanes in Central Park.

Multiple vehicles parked along the curb on 44th Street in Hell's Kitchen were damaged when a tree came down. One couple returning home from a Memorial Day Weekend trip were told they couldn't get into their apartment because of the tree.

"They just replaced the sidewalk. It was so beautifully flat as of like three days ago," one person said.

Over in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a tree fell on Aaron Williams' family car.

"So we don't know the nature of the vehicle and how it's going to function until the tree is removed," he said. "And I'm hurting more than anything. And I know financially at the moment, we don't have the finance to really fix this vehicle at the moment."  

He's now thinking about how he's going to take his children to school, swim practice, and how he'll be getting his groceries.

Neighbors in Brownsville, and in Hell's Kitchen, said they saw this coming because these trees, along with others on their block, were leaning already.

"My neighbor, we spoke about it. He made numerous complaints, probably get more than 10, 10 or 12 or more complaints in," Brownsville resident Daniel Goodine said. "But it takes something like this, you know, damage to the community, property and stuff for somebody to come out and make a difference."