I rode this afternoon (finished up about 10 minutes before the rain).
The good news: Candy Ass is in awesome shape. No downed trees to report, no overgrowth, just goodness.
The bad news: There were two ATV's (polaris) that I ran into while climbing up the white on the Stuyvesant side. The dude had a chainsaw in the trunk - I asked him why, and he said it was the clear out the trees down on white to widen out the trail, where I know people that maintain the park have purposefully left them down to prevent that exact thing from happening. I reported it on the WARN NJ DEP app, but it seems like we're losing the battle right now.