In Passaic, a tree came down on a car and power lines at High Street and Ascension Street. No one was injured.
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"A tree fell down in front of my house and luckily it was right before school started because between 8:30 and 9 this block is very crowded, bumper to bumper with cars and a tragedy definitely would have happened," said neighborhood resident Cindy Roth.
Meteorologist Jeff Smith was at the scene.
Wind damage reported in parts of New Jersey
In Hackensack, a tree fell and damaged the awning of a store.
Strong winds bring down trees, power lines in New York area
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In Leonia, power lines were downed at Fort Lee Road and Glenwood Avenue, resulting in an outage that caused a two-hour delayed opening at Anna C. Scott School.
In Old Bridge, a tree branch snapped and toppled onto a minivan at the Madison Gardens apartments.
As of 6 p.m. nearly 10,000 customers were without power across the Tri-State area:
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* NJ - 5,200 outages
* LI - 4,000 outages
* NYC - 550 outages
* Westchester - 600 outages
NJ Transit experienced some delays due to a fallen tree in Ridgewood.