There's a block party until 5 p.m. today on East 14th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C.
As a resident shares with us:
"It's to celebrate the arrival of 20 trees. This took about five years of petitioning the city … and is pioneering because the infrastructure on this block with the Con Edison steam pipes running along here made it tricky. Previously no trees were able to be planted here."
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I feel for the young kids of NYC. Seems like such an uphill battle just to enjoy normal little kid life. And what do they get in return for their hardship? Nothing. Raw deal.
Also: please note that Joyce Kilmer was a man; every grade-school teacher I ever had thought he was a woman.
Now this is something I am sorry to have missed. Will go tomorrow just to look at the baby trees and imagine a time when (hopefully) they are old and graceful and casting shade on hot summer days.
Here on 5th Street a number of young trees have been killed when these rich young morons attach their thousand-dollar bicycles to them, and during the overnight one of the remaining skells rips off the branches to remove said cycle.
I was there and it was great -- a real community event with a cake from Moishe's and home-baked treats, kids dancing and scootering, and lots of mingling. The poems are still up today.
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