Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Checking the Hare Krishna tree for Dutch Elm Disease in Tompkins Square Park



A bit of a startling sight this morning when a tree crew towing a shredder pulled up to the Hare Krishna tree in the middle of Tompkins Square Park.

Workers were there, though, just to inspect the American Elm, which was the site of the birth of the Hare Krishna movement in the United States in 1966.









EVG contributor Steven, who took these photos, talked with one of the workers, who was checking the tree for Dutch Elm Disease. He said that the tree is sound, though he did have to remove a few suspect branches...
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3 comments:

  1. Amanda Burden-ChristSeptember 2, 2015 at 4:26 PM

    I believe they are scouting locations for my new pedestrian seating area tree houses. Splendid!

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 2, 2015 at 5:07 PM

    I would have thought the police tower could have inspected most of the trees a couple of months ago and saved some tax $.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 2, 2015 at 6:06 PM

    Lovely video from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation site, Ginsberg singing Hare Krishna to William F. Buckley:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS8A5IME7aU

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