Here's a dispatch from Seventh Street (No. 39 to be exact) between Second Avenue and Cooper Square, where EVG reader Dinky reports:
Alas, the beautiful red bud planted by the Parks Department on Oct. 25, 2017, was torn down during the night [this past weekend] by some marauding drunks.
Parks came Monday and removed the tree down to the stump.
Hoping for a replacement, but the first one took two years to get, so am not holding my breath.
No one witnessed the tree attack, though "someone heard a lot of yelling and running in the wee hours of Saturday-Sunday," per Dinky.
