Friday, September 20, 2024

Tree down on 12th Street

We received several reader reports of a downed tree this morning on the north side of 12th Street just west of Second Avenue...
Our tipsters arrived after the tree was down. It's possible that the truck neatly parked in the bike lane, and the tree just happened to uproot and fall over on its own. (Of course, we've had our share, like here and here, of truck-tree collisions. The trucks always win.) 

Here's a screen grab from a reader video...
Tree aside, there weren't any reports of injuries. According to the NYC Tree Map, this was a Callery pear

Updated 3:30 p.m.
 
William Klayer notes that 12th Street between Third Avenue and Second Avenue is closed to traffic... while workers remove the downed tree...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That is a shame to lose another nice tree like that because of some careless truck driver who is looks like went right up on the curb and knocked the tree right over and probably could not care less about it.