We've received reader reports from around the neighborhood in recent days about city contractors digging up and replacing soil in tree pits.
EVG regular Daniel shared these top two photos from Thursday on 10th Street outside the Tompkins Square Library branch...
Word is nearly 200 trees will be planted in the East Village in the months ahead.
Among the locations receiving new trees — Seventh Street at Avenue A (thanks Paul W.!) ... shade for Joe Strummer...
... and Cooper Square near Seventh Street...
The city has an interactive map that shows you where the new trees will be... and when you can expect them on your block...
The above is just a screengrabs. Find the map at this link.
You can also find the city's current tree map right here.
Parks department promised to plant 1000 trees in the EV / LES as part of the plan to destroy East River Park. I assume this is part of this
ReplyDeleteAs newly planted trees require a minimum of 20 gallons of water per week for the first year to survive, please contact your elected officials and Community Board to get Treegators (green plastic cone-shaped bags that wrap around a new tree) for each new tree to help them survive. You'll need to refill the Treegator every week or hand water the newly planted tree.
ReplyDeleteThe contractor who plants the NYC trees is supposed to water them, but they may do so only two or three times per summer. That is why so many trees do not survive here.
For Treegators, see treegator.com
Another reason for young trees and all trees not surviving is that the city does not supply any grills or railings around the trees. That is left to the public to finance those enclosures.It is technically unlawful to construct an enclosure without permit. Those enclosures are expensive and unless a community raises funds or a landlord is benevolent trees go without enclosures. Dogs urinate on trees and kill them eventually. So why does the city not include them automatically when they plant? What sense does it make to spend all that money planting and offer no protection for these trees.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the City will pull the 2 hundred trees if they lose on their plan for East River Park? Otherwise the trees are a blessing. Let's protect them.
ReplyDeletePlanting trees is a good thing for the City to do but they must also be protected too many people use the tree pits as a garbage dumping ground and too many dogs and homeless people and LES/EV bar hoppers urinate on the trees which causes the trees to wither and die. The City needs to put some type of protection barrier around the tree so that it can grow and stay healthy.
ReplyDeleteNo one waters them. (even the moron with the hose washing the sidewalk)
ReplyDeletePeople use them as their dog's toilet.
That is why trees don't survive.
According to the NYC Park's Tree Map site:
ReplyDeleteOne, 80 year old tree reduces 2,104 pounds of carbon dioxide/year, conserves 1,670 kWh energy/year, intercepts 2,668 gallons of stormwater/year.
A 10 year old tree, reduces only 79 pounds of carbon dioxide/year, conserves 0 air pollutants/year, intercepts 195 gallons of stormwater.
How is it considered responsible for the city to destroy nearly 1,000 mature trees at East River Park?
Save East River Park! http://eastriverparkaction.org/
Petition https://www.change.org/p/mayor-bill-de-blasio-save-east-river-park-urge-nyc-to-develop-a-resilient-plan-with-consensus-from-community?recruiter=1005757590&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition
Correction:
ReplyDeleteOne, 80 year old tree reduces 2,104 pounds of carbon dioxide/year, conserves 1,670 kWh energy/year, removes 3 pounds air pollutants/year and intercepts 2,668 gallons of stormwater/year.
A 10 year old tree, reduces only 79 pounds of carbon dioxide/year, removes 0 air pollutants/year, conserves 239 kWh energy/year, intercepts 195 gallons of stormwater.
I love this! Some of the placements are horrendous though. For example, on Ave B near third, you can barely use the sidewalk when the Mexican restaurant's tables are set up. Ridiculous planning.
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