How to trace the pattern of wealth disparity in this city—besides the widening chasm between super-luxury condos and the rest of the market, that is? Look for the trees. Or rather, for how many trees there are in your neighborhood. The Atlantic's CityLab shared findings of a study published in the journal PLOS One that found that in New York City, and in a handful of other cities (including Philadelphia and Baltimore), tree cover correlated with neighborhood income. In other words, the richer the area, the more trees there are and the denser the foliage.
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The shoe fits, new development or enlargement projects require street trees to be planted. Lot more of that going on in Williamsburg than Brownsville with clientele that have the incomes to match. It's the same thing as saying newer buildings have more affluent tenants. Exactly the same.
How could that be? There are barely any trees on the wealthiest streets of Manhattan. You'd have to go to Central Park to see any greenery. Yet in some of the poorest parts of East NY, Brooklyn, you can find some of the densest tree canopies on streets and parks. This is A dumb and baseless study.
There are tees lining every street on the upper east side, especially the side streets. Besides, park trees are counted in the study and east New York doesn't have many compared to Central Park.
True dat!
Leafy green nabes indicated green stuff in residents bank accounts.
Peasants cut down trees. They shed "dirty stuff" (leaves) and cast shadows on their tomato gardens.
And.....anything taller than a veggie plant is "a danger"......so my Sicilian neighbor has said over, and over , and over again.
Mt Asian neighbor forever proclaims, "No like tree".
Hicks, hicks, hicks! I live in NYC and I feel I'm living upstate in the boonies.
So if you're poor, you can't take care of the trees in your neighborhood? Got it. That makes sense since the poor also can't pack their trash correctly, or clean up in front of their homes, or park legally.
No, the new third world arrivals cannot do much of anything correctly except apply for welfare. They have advocates for everything. It is only the middle class that gets screwed having to pay for their advocates and again to pay for the welfareca lot of these fakers think they are owed. We have become an entitlement nation. China will own us soon.
"China will own us soon."
I live in Flushing they own me now.
No one takes care of trees. Loosen the soil ,waters and they thrive.......
Former District Manager of CB!, George Delis, used to brag that he gave that community's tree allocation to Jackson Heights.
Said the locals did not want them as they clogged pipes and made a mess with their leaves.
That Ditmars crowd is a piece of work.
Hey, Don Paulo Vallone, how about getting city funds for beautifying 164th St. near our RR station? It looks like a run down block instead of the entry to Broadway.
Hey, Tony, if Vallone falls down on this , will you help us out?
Avella always scores an "A" when it comes to supporting doing the right thing.
The Chinese do not own Flushing. CB7's ethnic makeup report only 41% Asian. A huge part of that is because of the downtown hub.
Remember , the category Asian includes the sub continent too. How many in this census data are actually Chinese?
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