Just off Second Avenue. Anyone know when this happened? How it happened?
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Tree down on East 13th Street
Just off Second Avenue. Anyone know when this happened? How it happened?
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Mulchfest gone amuck?
ReplyDeleteI live a block away, first saw it around noon yesterday.
ReplyDelete@ Ken
ReplyDeleteOr maybe a new menu item at Momofuku Ssam Bar?
So how can we rule out any possibility that there was a cause other than one obvious possibility, that a truck slammed the tree so hard that it snapped at the base and came right out of the ground?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like it might have been cut somewhat. So maybe someone took a portable angle grinder to the base just because they're a jerk?
That looks like a bad case of tree rot at the base, same thing is happening in Tompkins Square and most other parks where tree limbs are falling and toppling over. A truck may have backed into it but a healthy tree would not split at the base unless there was serious tree rot.
ReplyDeleteRot indeed. This is what happens when restaurants dump their buckets of bleach water into the trees.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the big tree couldn't bear to live any longer, seein' his little buddy, dead in the street......so the big tree committed arborcide.
ReplyDeleteGood name for a band Dr Bop
ReplyDeleteBig time tree rot.
ReplyDeleteWas the tree infront of a spawn of yuppie building? If so they prolly called dad to get it down because the birds make too much noise, and the cant see their favorite chain resturaunt or citibike availability out the window.
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