Thanks to EVG reader Colleen Egan for sharing these photos this morning … of a large branch that, at least from the top photo, looks as if it came down nearly on top of Temperance Fountain…
The tree (is this an elm?) branch looked rotted out on the inside.
Updated 10:11 a.m.
Here are more photos via EVG reader bonatron9000…
… and via EVG reader Bayou…
6 comments:
The Parks Dept really needs to examine the trees in that park -- many of them are unsafe and ready to fall, just like this one. There's a tree along the sidewalk on 7th Street, close to Avenue B, with a dead branch that extends far away from the trunk and over the sidewalk. I called 311 about it last year and nothing has been done. Is it cheaper to pay out damage awards than to maintain the trees?
So there goes another lovely, ancient tree. When will the Parks Department become proactive instead of reactive in TSP, which has some of the oldest trees in the entire parks system? This is simply shameful, but thank God Temperance was spared.
Looks like a great place for seating!
There are a couple of more tree limbs near the 9th St, Avenue A entrance and along Crusty Row that are rotting and about to come down. Every day I'm in that park I notice all the big limbs about to fall and the people sitting on benches oblivious to the rotting limbs they are sitting right under, TSP has become a much more dangerous park in the last few years after Hurricane Sandy. They cut down dozens of trees in East River Park after Sandy and they do much better tree maintenance there. Riverside Park and Central Park have very old trees too but they don't seem to rot as often as these.
Why are these trees rotting like this?
The trees may have sustained damage in the hurricane... but the elms are vulnerable to disease. Perhaps an expert could weigh in...
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