Sunday, September 25, 2011

More photos of the uprooted tree on East Sixth Street

Following up on our earlier post about the downed tree on East Sixth Street just east of Avenue A ...

EV Grieve reader Elizabeth Frayer of New York Natives ... sent along these next three shots of the Japanese Pagoda tree ... the Parks Department and FDNY are on the scene...




And from EV Grieve reader Carl Bentsen ...





As several people have pointed out...the base of the tree looks rotted out... without any/many roots...

4 comments:

Marty Wombacher said...

There's no newspaper for verification!

Anonymous said...

hollowed out by rats

Anonymous said...

Another possible cause: Rot due to the soil well-meaning people who thought they do the tree a favor by filling the planter box. Whenever folks do that (or add so much mulch that it touches the bark of the tree) the base of the tree can begin to decompose. See Top 10 Ways to Kill a Tree With Kindness
http://tinyurl.com/42ydb44

Anonymous said...

I thought it would be from dog's peeing there constantly. Glad I wasn't parked there that day.