BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, December 12.  A Brooklyn plant is tragically dead this morning after a tragic slowly-freezing-to-death event.

"I didn't know that plants could bleed, much less bleed to death," said Steve Schneider, who discovered the dead plant this morning at approximately 11:30 local time.  "Shit."

The plant was a tuberous begonia which lived most of its life on the South Terrace at 142 Montague Street, apartment 5R.  The begonia may have screamed as the outside temperature plunged to slowly-freezing-to-death temperatures, experts said, although authorities have yet to confirm if there was any screaming which, if it had been heard by anyone, could have averted the tragedy of a helpless begonia dying to death less than two weeks before Christmas.

The temperature in New York City Friday night reached a low of 27 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale.  It was not immediately known what that shit translates to in terms of centigrade or Celsius or whatever the fuck it's called.

"They were doing so well," said Persephone H______, who shares the Montague Street apartment with Schneider, of the former plant, "but one night of frost: who knew something like this could happen?  Global warming, people!  Hello!"

Sources say that H______ was the plant's primary caregiver.  "I'm, like, really sad," H______ said, "just really, like, sad.  Things like this aren't supposed to happen to me."  Asked to elaborate, H______ said, "Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark. There's nothing I can say, really -- it's a total eclipse of the heart.  You know?  I just made that up.  No, I totally did, just now."  Representatives from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene did not immediately respond to requests for comment.