From the Times Ledger:Residents were horrified after the city cut down 32 trees along a College Point street last week as part of the work on the new police academy.
The street trees stood in sidewalk beds along 28th Avenue between College Point Boulevard and Ulmer Street, on the north border of the College Point Police Academy development, a $1 billion facility currently under construction.
The city Parks Department said some of the trees were unhealthy and needed to be cut down, although the agency could not be more specific as to the nature of the illness and how it was caused. Others were being removed specifically to make way for the development, but the NYPD will replace all the greenery with new saplings in the future, Parks said.
In total, the NYPD plans to fell 82 trees in the process of constructing the new 3-million-square-foot training facility, according to Parks, which signs off on tree removals but was not involved in planning the trimming nor hiring contractors to do the dirty work.
In this case, the NYPD hired an arborist who inspected each of the trees before they were lopped off at the base. To comply with city laws, another arborist from Parks also signed off on the removals.
All of the trees were between 3- and 6-inch diameters, and the NYPD will replace the loss of foliage with 132 new trees, according to Parks.
12 comments:
Seems like a big waste of our $$ cut the trees down, buy and put up replacements..............???
Obviously the trees had Helen Marshall disease.
H-m-m-m...
that's 82 off the one million trees that Emperor Bloomberg promised to plant.
He's sure planted a heavy foot on New York during his 3 terms in office.
"Oh there is nothing I can see...
that's more obstructive than a tree".
What are they going to put in that Atrium, TREES?
H-m-m-m...
that's 82 off the one million trees that Emperor Bloomberg promised to plant.
He's sure planted a heavy foot on New York during his 3 terms in office.
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Let's not forget the 500 or so mature trees that were massacred along the Grand Central Parkway with no notice, from LaGuardia Airport to 111th Street last year.
This seems to be a trend in the Bloomberg administration:
First, cut down big, heatlhy mature trees that have acted as shade providers and carbon sinks and replace them with spindly treelets that, if they actually reach maturity, won't be anywhere near that size for decades.
Then in the best "greenwashing" branding campaign, claim that this is a victory for the environment and towards the goal of 1 million trees planted.
To top it off, it was good to get those old trees on the GCP rife with Helen Marshall disease removed...since East Elmhurst is the neighborhood where that particular infection began. And it's not a surprise that the other location this happened - Borough Hall - is also diseased.
in past Q.C.posts/links on this $21 MILLION "ATRIUM PROJECT", Dan Andrews, B.P. Spokesman said that this roof would prevent the many wedding couples waiting to get married at the Queens County Clerks office, from getting wet on rainy days ?????
Limo chauffeurs always provide extra large umbrella's on rainy wedding days
if not ,it would be a lot less expensive for the Clerk to loan extra large umbrella's to the wedding parties , than spend $21 MILLION of taxpayers money ,during a depression .
at P.S.159 Q, 15 of the first 19 trees planted in the concrete playground died. 15 new ones were replanted. a few have died already.the scam goes on and you pay .....happy April 15,2012....
we just refueled the dem/rino bureaucrats for another waste spending year.
Do you think that the trigger happy cop mentality give a shit about committing arboricide?
Lock 'n load!
It's chainsaw massacre time!
Hey,
that's 2 city contracts awarded.
$$$$ paid to cut...
then $$$$ paid to plant!
Then the unions kick back political campaign $$$$.
Get the full picture, now?
In the end,
we taxpayers fund it all!
In the end is right...
deep up the ass!
Do you think that the trigger happy cop mentality give a shit about committing arboricide?
Lock 'n load!
It's chainsaw massacre time!
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So "trigger happy cops" are committing the rash of black on black shootings in the city, NOT "trigger happy blacks"??
Anonymous said...
Do you think that the trigger happy cop mentality give a shit about committing arboricide?
Lock 'n load!
It's chainsaw massacre time!
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How many cops have been shot this year? How many people have been shot by trigger happy criminals? Not that you'd care. Keep up the good work of supporting criminals. Perhaps you can have a few move in with you after they serve their long sentences of a few months for shooting one of your neighbors.
Well isn't that just great? Lets clear the land of about 80 or so trees, and in by doing so lets NOT hire a tree service company so the money is eventually regulated back in the hands of those who it belongs to in their line of work. Fantastic.
-Carlos Hernandez
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