by Kim M 
In recent weeks, some of you may have spotted the mutilation of 5 trees bordering the northern edge of Barge Park. These trees, identified as 75 yr old London Plane Trees, have been around longer than most of us and recently met their untimely death at the hands of our new neighbor Greenpoint Landing, and the Parks Department.
How they were chopped…
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NYC parks / NY parks act like for profit institutions, selling out our parks to, food vendors, flea markets, cooperate concerts, soccer leagues. Now selling off trees that go into a general fund. If you take value from a park maybe youshould consider putting the value back into a park not back into the general fund. Almost all the park land in GP WB is active space. We only have one nice passive park, McGorlick. Transmitter park has design aesthetic of a cemetery. I have high hopes we can make Box St park one of the best passive parks in the city, stay tuned.
Not only do “they” cash in on our Parks and leave our neighborhoods covered in trash and debris from events, they then have the gall to ask for neighborhood volunteers to clean our parks and neighborhoods. Calling it an opportunity! I guess so they can save money and not create park JOBS. What do they do with the money? Promote Beer companies. Create jobs for AA rehab centers.
this is a ridiculous article for many reasons but it’s worth pointing out that tree restitution is only required on public property.
there are much bigger problems with GPL than the parks department, who receives a measly 0.5% of the city’s annual budget yet is expected to create and maintain beautiful spaces across 30,000 acres. they can use all the help they can get – including tree restitution money.
Wasn’t it stated at the last parks presentation to the community that the trees would be kept? Or maybe those were elsewhere?
And wonder if this holds any ground, https://nypost.com/2013/11/27/mobsters-plead-guilty-to-racketeering-extortion/
… Are these still xyz, concrete & metal recycling? NYNY it’s a tough-ish town.