Bad year for New York City Trees
As we weather another storm, I pass by yet more fallen trees. On Dyckman street, a tree branch (or tree- visibility was that bad) squashed a car. Newly budding branches enticed by the first warm breath of Spring are splayed out in pieces on the sidewalks. Was this a bad year for the NYC tree? We had the strange Upper West Side tornado that spun through the park like it was Oz, we had a winter wonderland of majestically ice-coated trees that crumbled down along the 5th avenue sidewalk of the Upper East Side… It just seems like trees took a real beating this year.
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The idea that trees and people don’t mix has been becoming more and more obvious to me. I am writing these words to the tune of municipal workers putting a tree, that fell into my parking lot, through a wood chipper. No property damage but it is the second huge tree withing a year. Last summer, a large tree fell between two cars parked in my daughter’s driveway. In my neighborhood, the same storm dropped a tree right in the middle of a house that now looks abandoned. After living in one of the Tree Towns USA I have grown fond of the symphony of chain saws and candlelight dining right after every storm but when will we realize that people, building, cars and tall trees don’t get along. There is a reason my god created shrubs and bushes.