NYC Snapshot
Afew weeks after Sandy
hit NYC, we checked in, sheepishly, with Director of Street Tree
Planting for the City of New York
Department of Parks & Recreation
Matt Stephens. Sheepishly, because
the cleanup was so freshly monumental, it seemed rude to thrust
a reporter's mic into the situation.
Matt graciously provided pics from
Queens and on December 5th, he
reported that "During Hurricane
Sandy and a snow storm a few
days later, NYC Parks & Recreation
received nearly 26,000 tree-related
service calls. To date, NYC Parks
has counted approximately 10,000
street trees lost and thousands
others in parks. One month after
the storm, work along the streets
is being finished while work in the
hardest-hit parks is still continuing."
A massive silver maple crushes the vehicle below.
In Queens, a silver maple lost in Hurricane Sandy blocks a street while also becoming entangled in utility wires.
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City Trees