Monday, February 15, 2010

Avenue A loses some shade

You know that nice tree on Avenue A between Ninth Street and 10th Street, roughly in front of San Loco? This one:



It's gone. A resident who lives in one of these buildings said the tree was seemingly healthy. Then one day last week: There's a "guy in a cherrypicker outside my window with a chainsaw taking the tree apart."





And notice how much else has changed on Avenue A... that Google streetview shot is from spring 2009...
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8 comments:

  1. elkueFebruary 15, 2010 at 11:29 AM

    Ouch, that sucks.

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  2. EV GrieveFebruary 15, 2010 at 12:04 PM

    Blogger doesn't make anything easy.

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  3. JillFebruary 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM

    Last year a tree fell smack on my car and it cost the insurance company almost $10,000 to fix. It was a sucky day. http://mingum.blogspot.com/2008/10/tree-ate-my-car.html

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  4. VH McKenzieFebruary 16, 2010 at 8:48 AM

    this totally stinks -- that was a lovely tree.

    Time to order a new one -- free trees from the city:

    http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/trees_greenstreets/street_tree_plant.html

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  5. glammaFebruary 16, 2010 at 10:27 AM

    this is awful. why did they do this?

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  6. EV GrieveFebruary 16, 2010 at 12:02 PM

    I don't know Glamma. It seemed healthy enough to me.

    That side of the Ave just doesn't seem right now without this...

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  7. eviFebruary 16, 2010 at 11:29 PM

    Oh my god. that was the building i grew up in and just moved from under a year ago.....I lived on the third floor and knew that tree well...sad.

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  8. McBendsFebruary 18, 2010 at 11:11 AM

    That makes me sad.

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