Parks Clears Weeds for Trees: Kill Them All Edition

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The Avenue across from the library is the site of a planned planting of 2,000 tress and 500 shrubs by the NYC Parks Natural Resource Group

If you haven’t noticed the huge brown piles of dead weeds and trees on the avenue this is whats been going on. The parks department came in to spray all of the phragmities and clear out the dead debris.

The large piles you see in the pictures are piles of dumped broken cement blocks. I wonder if they will have to remove those blocks if they plan on planting 2,000 trees in that spot.

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3 comments to Parks Clears Weeds for Trees: Kill Them All Edition

  • 2,000 trees? Was there that much damage from all the recent storms? Or have they decided that there are too many phragmites?

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  • Anne

    Do you sometimes feel like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing??????

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  • Anonymous

    They really picked the wrong summer to do this. All the trees that they planted and took the trouble to put a fence across to protect them are dead from lack of water. What a waste! Do they still count as part of a million if they are all dead? Why, if they went to all that trouble didn't they send up the truck to water them?

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