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September
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- Adrian hogs the spotlight
- Time to bend over again
- LIRR out for 2 weekends in October
- Andrew's cousin lobbied state
- Quest to remember Revolutionary hero
- Cemeteries devastated by storm
- Public housing residents behind on their rent
- Pete's butt-ing in
- Storm wrapup features yours truly
- Cuomo offering deal to Hevesi?
- "Smackpot" at JFK
- Elimination of gerrymandering?
- Defunct bus stops still popular with traffic agents
- Mosque may be moved further east
- Liu finds dead people still getting paid
- Butterflies at the beach
- Cops really going overboard
- Death at Forest Hills Barnes & Noble
- CITYWIDE TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 6pm
- 2nd Ave subway is far behind schedule & way over b...
- Graffiti covers blank billboards
- Amazing what embarrassing TV coverage will do
- Teacher tenure rules changing
- Tips on how to spot illegal apartments
- Mr. Telephone Man, there's something STILL wrong w...
- Welcome to the "Queens Cab Stand Jungle"
- Crash landing at JFK
- Bridge and tunnel tolls going up again
- Parks to proceed with demolition of Cedar Grove
- Midnight craziness on Roosevelt Ave
- Millstones being moved to library
- Sounds like honest graft to me!
- Parking free-for-all
- "Progressives" looking to hurt small businesses
- Newtown Creek to get Superfund status
- Brothers charged with trespassing for going home
- THIS we have money for...
- Distressed properties to get assessments
- Filthy Food for Thought
- Still waiting...
- Caldor site to reopen as Asian mall
- Rosedale rezoned
- Flushing Commons deal is done
- Is Bloomberg really ok with this?
- Vallone asks City to buy Steinway Mansion
- Why do they get a pass?
- What the truck?
- Just what we needed
- Safecracking - you win some, you lose some
- Our "new" state senator?
- Financing Atlantic Yards
- Sad story at the St. Albans VA
- OT in overdrive
- Sleazy Vito update
- Willow Lake goes wild
- Why did Stop and Shop close?
- SHOCKING NEWS: A shitload of illegal conversions i...
- Cleanup continues
- Terrorism update
- Queens men accused of grease theft
- Ceiling hole fixed
- Message from Queens Civic Congress
- Tickets continue in spite of new rules
- Weve got some really crappy roads here
- Triangle hell continues
- What is the Council hiding?
- Illegal signs plague Sunnyside
- Money for nothing
- Rangel charity in trouble
- Apology to widow from Sadik-Khan
- Photos from Flushing
- Rego Park/Forest Hills tornado damage
- Bloomberg offers false hope to Cedar Grove Beach Club
- Cuomo suddenly thinks Lopez is shady
- Bad neighbor blog
- The waiting game
- Imam caught smuggling guns into Rikers
- Are we in for a big boom?
- Robbers caught on tape
- Middle Village devastation
- One from Auburndale
- Haggerty points finger at Sheekey
- Mysterious death in Woodhaven
- Photos of storm damage in Glendale
- Shady mosque accepts donation for incident that ne...
- Drunken SJU students add to vibrant diversity
- They'll even ticket you after you die
- Liu looks to reform CBA process
- Cell towers a suprise to co-op owners
- Census truth: They just make it up!
- Loss of a lollipop
- October auction for Atlas Park
- CB7 approves Flushing Commons - again
- Can we have a mental competency exam, please?
- Did Vito pressure old ladies into doing his bidding?
- Time to limit legal gun ownership!
- Stopping sex trafficking
- The slow death of an abandoned McMansion
- Forest Hills got walloped
- Historic church's steeple destroyed by storm
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5 comments:
I can't get over how shallow the roots of this tree are and so square shaped as the dirt square it sat in!
Unfortunately some trees have roots that dig straight down and deep, often affecting waste pipes by clogging them or shallow where there is a risk of toppling easier.
What tree species is the city planting these day as a comprimise? I see certain species that grow to 40 Ft and quickly but don't seem as brittle as the London Plane species. Bringing in greenery is important to our well being for cleaning the air, cooling the air, dampening noise and the beauty they provide!
Queens has lost countless trees to developers and not replaced during the past storms. We need to replace and expand tree planting to make up for our short fall.
London Plane trees have survived the 1938, Agnus and Gloria hurricanes.
You have to water and trim some of the "sail" out of them.
The city no longer maintains them and constant paving and concrete deprives them of water.
I doubt the new trees the city is planting can survive all the lime and alkali leaching from all the cheap concrete being used.
To add without dirt and green space to leach rain water into the glacial moraine Queens is becoming toxic cocktail.
The city's one big jackass or they know these new trees wont survive.
Here's an idea for homeowners-- take care of your own trees if you love them. Fertilize, water, prune, etc. etc. Costs money, right? You bet. They're your trees-- or they aren't, as you wish. If you wait for the city to do ANYTHING, you will be waiting a long time, and be very unhappy.
I surveyed a lot of the damage.
It appears that about 95% of the trees that suffered or completely toppled were Silver Maples whose roots are very shallow.
My own tree surgeon said that this variety should have never been planted as curb trees in particular because there's no room for root expansion when confined in or near the narrow verge strip.
Upon viewing a lot of downed trees, many of them may have been weakened by ants or other vermin hollowing out the trunks.
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