Tree down on 9th Street

At least one tree casualty from the storm that rolled through late this afternoon... EVG reader Penny Rand shared these photos from Ninth Street just a little east of Avenue B along the Christodora House...



"I watched it get uprooted and tossed like a little twig," she said...



Updated:

Here's another photo via EVG reader Brad212...

Storm brings down this tree on 6th Street

[Photo via @jeremyblock]

This tree took a fall — roots and all — early this evening during the storm on the north side of Sixth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue. Thankfully no one was injured, and the car looks to have suffered just minor damage all things considered...


[Photo via @edwardzick]

EVG reader Danny shared these photos... showing the NYPD helping clear the tree from the street...









One witness said that the tree's roots were rotted.

Updated 8:16 p.m.

Word from the NYPD...

We are unsure what caused the tree to come down but our Emergency Services Unit came & cut up the tree, placing it on the sidewalk. The owner of the 🚗 has been notified and most importantly nobody was injured @NYPDSpecialops

— NYPD 9th Precinct (@NYPD9Pct) March 8, 2018

Christmas trees lounge

You my now officially drag your [Christmas] trees (no home appliances please) to Tompkins Square Park, where workers have assembled the drop-off pen... which appears to have some sort of guard on duty...



Disguised as an ordinary outdoor snowman, this hidden camera with DVR provides motion activated recording of all activity (with 90-day standby battery).



The city is holding its annual MulchFest/TreeCycle on Jan. 6 and 7 (2018!) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tompkins Square Park is once again serving as a chipping location.

Photos yesterday by Steven.

Headline H/T!

Post-'Pose' tree damage on 4th Street

Crews for the upcoming series "Pose" have decamped from Fourth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B, where they were filming for parts of Nov. 28 through Wednesday.

An EVG reader on the block shared this photo ... noting that one of the production trucks was responsible for damaging this tree...



As for "Pose," the show is via Ryan Murphy, whose credits include "Nip/Tuck" and "American Horror Story."

Per Deadline:

Set in 1986, Pose examines the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in New York City: the emergence of the luxury Trump-era universe, the downtown social and literary scene and the ball culture world.

We have some new trees

[Reader-sumbitted photo]

Crews were out early this morning on Avenue A to plant several new trees on the west side between Sixth Street and Fourth Street...


[EVG photo]

A new tree also arrived on St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue, where someone has already fashioned a homemade urban tree etiquette sign...


[Photo by Steven]

The trees are via the Department of Parks & Recreation. Their website has a map showing where all the new trees are coming for this neighborhood ... and others citywide.

[Updated] Trees coming down for L train expansion on 14th Street

As previously reported, preliminary work is underway along 14th Street for building new entrances at Avenue A and an underground power station at Avenue B for the L train.

And to make way for all this, some trees need to come down. On Friday, workers removed several trees (I counted three barrels on top of stumps) on the cobblestone median along 14th Street/the Stuy Town service road between Avenue A and First Avenue.

Several EVG readers shared emails about this taking place.

Wrote one: "I am appalled and sickened to see [the trees] being cut down and fed through a chipper. Did anyone know that this was going to occur? I am sick at heart and will never see full grown trees on this block for the rest of my life. Incredible."

And more will be coming down between Avenue A and Avenue B... X marks the doomed trees...



These six trees have Xs on them...



... and the trees that will remain ...





Updated 8/15
Several readers noted that the six trees came down yesterday...

Reader report: major damage avoided when tree falls behind 1st Avenue buildings

An EVG reader shared these photos... Around 3 a.m., about half of a large tree fell and came to rest on part of two buildings behind First Avenue between Second Street and Third Street...





The reader said that no one was injured ... the tree narrowly missed the enclosed canopy behind d.b.a.

Apparently there was a crack in the tree, and a neighbor warned that this might happen.

Branch down in Tompkins Square Park

[Photos by Steven]

The storm this morning brought down a branch from one of the elm trees (in Elm Island) in Tompkins Square Park near the Eighth Street and Avenue B sinkhole/entrance ...

Autumn in New York this summer

[EVG photo from Monday night]

EVG reader Brian Orce asked the Parks Department about the number of dead leaves seen in Tompkins Square Park and elsewhere in the neighborhood this summer.

They responded:

Often in the high summer months, particularly if there has been intense heat waves or drought, you will see some otherwise healthy looking trees with slightly brown or dry-looking leaves. Sometimes leaves fall early due to drought or heat. We have been lucky with rain this summer (so far) so our trees shouldn’t be more stressed than normal. The leaves of London planetrees (our most common species) tend to dry out and brown in midsummer regardless of rain or heat, but there is nothing abnormal about it. You will see London planetree leaves at their best in the late spring, when they are full and green. You can use our Street Tree Map to learn more about NYC’s trees and to report a tree in need of care.

Perhaps this suitably explains why you've been hearing leaf blowers in recent weeks...

Down at 1st

EVG reader William Klayer shares these photos from this morning at East Houston and the FDR along East River Park ... showing a tree casualty from yesterday's late-afternoon/early-evening storms that passed through the city...



The tree appears to have fallen roughly where first base is on the ballfield... (looks like field 4?)

Turning over some new leaves for Cooper Square

In our post earlier today about the new zipper bench on the reconstructed Astor Place, a commenter mentioned the arrival of new trees for the plaza around Cooper Square... EVG regular peter radley passed along these photos of the trees (nearly two dozen) on the scene today...



Here's a link to a weekly bulletin (PDF) noting what's happening this week.

More humongous fungus

After our previous post on the topic, EV Fungi reader Jackson Gilkey, a gardener at La Plaza Cultural on Ninth Street and Avenue C, shared the above photo... of that yellow fungus growing on the smaller willow. Jackson notes that you can see it from Ninth Street near the western end of the garden by the gazebo.

Consensus seems to be that this is chicken of the woods.

The humongus fungus among us (aka, What the hell is that?)

Goggla shares these photos (and that was her headline!) from Tompkins Square Park... showing some kind of blooming fungus exploding from the tree closest to the recycling bins across from the men's room.

And for scale, here is the thing next to a squirrel...



Perhaps it's a chicken of the woods? Where's a mycologist when you need one?

East Fifth St. Tree Committee takes action after downed limb strikes car

A reader passes along word that a large branch — "assumed to be broken off by lightning" — fell on top of a car on East Fifth Street between Second Avenue and Cooper Square.

The downed branch was spotted by a member of the East Fifth Street Tree Committee, who notified the FDNY. Firefighters, who happened to be on the block responding to a reported gas leak on the block, removed the tree parts that had covered the car.

The Tree Committee member contacted the Parks Department, "who quickly sent someone to take photos and assured the block residents that the tree parts would be removed by morning."

East 3rd Street zen spirit

An EVG reader passes along these photos of a small zen garden that has arrived in this tree pit (along with a new tree several weeks ago) here on Third Street between Avenue A and Avenue B...





Hopefully it can survive the Avenue B weekend brunch crowd...

Pruning day in Tompkins Square Park

[Photo by Steven]

Workers are out today pruning trees in Tompkins Square Park... taking down a few heavy branches that could be candidates to fall...


[Photo by Steven]

... and the action up-close via Derek Berg...

Free the trees! Also, MulchFest is coming

Oh, just noting that the tree penitentiary/corral has arrived in the middle of Tompkins Square Park. Where you can deposit your tree ahead of MulchFest 2016, scheduled for TWO action-packed days: Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 9-10, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

No word if anyone will be on guard duty here.