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- Brooklyn developer heavily fined for arboricide
- More MTA tolling shenanigans reported
- Junked cars litter South Ozone Park
- Neglected Kew Gardens bridge needs some quick help
- Spa Castle in trouble again
- Parking placard abusers to feel the heat
- Problem Whitestone lot padlocked
- Disgraceful dealings at Willets Point
- Private Sunnyside park to become public
- 6-year old tweeding effort exposed
- Western Beef will not become hotel
- Yet another Queens Blvd hotel to become homeless s...
- How do you help a hoarder?
- LIC leaders unhappy with development plan
- A better way to board up homes?
- College Point street is flooded 24/7
- They're Building It Back badly
- Georgia Diner sold and will merge with Nevada Diner
- Koslowitz ok with jail (and shelter for now)
- Homeless behavior is causing problems all over the...
- Lefferts Blvd elevator finally open
- Presenting "The Filth of Forest Hills"
- Illegal driveways continue to get built
- Residents wary of street trees
- Willets Point project is a 10-year long joke
- It's a good time for some bad taste...
- Tenants claim that illegal construction is being u...
- Neptune Diner to become a teardown
- City gives tax credits for hotel building
- Koslowitz agrees to Kew Gardens jail plan
- Forest Hills streets become truck parking lots
- Happy Valentine's Day from the NYC Parks Dept
- MTA funding going to upstate bobsled track
- Van Bramer running for Queens Borough President
- $6.7M awarded to 5 Pointz artists by federal judge
- Manhattan group sues to stop too-tall tower
- Firetruck crashes into building
- Queens getting a heavy tow truck
- Marine Park experiences Fedders
- Swindled workers will be paid after settlement
- Another tragic fire in an illegal conversion
- DOT allows bus lane parking on weekends
- Subway repairs are of concern in Astoria
- 5-story building to replace Forest Hills small bus...
- Too-tall buildings to be reined in
- REBNY involved in CUNY chancellor search
- 16 units to replace 1-family house in Astoria
- 2-family home to be replaced with 20 units in Kew ...
- Mr. de Blasio goes to Albany
- Plan in effect for small piece of Willets Point
- Civic leader says historic districts should be pro...
- Koslowitz ok with either jail or shelter but not both
- Partying like it's 1975
- Greater Allen AME Church operating for 20 years wi...
- Bill sticking taxpayers with quite a tab
- Silly train study says what we already knew
- Movement to bar corrupt pols from running for offi...
- Tasteful restoration coming to Doughboy Park
- Andy should have checked with the Feds first
- School cafeterias are kinda dirty
- BDB wants basement apartments legalized
- Gazette mistakenly publishes fact checked Melinda ...
- Halletts Point funding yanked by BDB
- Inspectors faked asbestos reports
- Bill may change property tax system
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11 comments:
What's it look like under the sidewalk? Roots in the sewer and water lines? This is one of the reasons homeowners don't want trees planted in front of their property.
NYC dose not do the right thing and remove these unsafe trees.
I have called 311 many times only to be told bull crap !
The tree is never removed and continues to drop dangerous large branches.
I even had the Fire Department respond and close the sidewalk and waited three weeks for a hanging branch to be removed.
"The Department of Parks and Recreation has reviewed this request and will visit the location to investigate the condition."
"Your service request has been routed to the Department of Parks and Recreation for action."
Roots near a sewer line is a big pain the ass in Ridgewood and Glendale.
Back in 1920 The Krauts used 5 inch asphalt pipe the roots grow right into it. Eventually toilet paper gets snagged and compressed by back pressure and you end up with a hard plug. When you power snake it snags the root and the whole pipe and soil around it collapses. You then have a complete blockage and have to bust up the basement floor and tunnel out to the curb with new. Then pay the city union guys money to tunnel more and plug you in.
Its a nightmare and expensive as hell.
Two dumb tree hating knuckleheads.
Why doesn't George the crepe hanger publish a book on why life sucks? That's all he ever comments about!
to quote at 1:31:
"As the stewards of New York City's urban forest, we care for our city's street and park trees and also respond to more than 80,000 forestry-service requests from concerned New Yorkers each year."
But they don't send an actual person to respond to the poll Avella tabulated and instead give what looks like an I.M. derived from a bot.
I have seen hundreds of trees in southeast Queens here that look precarious and could be close to a century old. In fact, I can point a couple that were overlooked for decades and now have electric cable protruding through thick upper branches like it's holding it together.
If the parks dept avoidance of removing dangerous old trees on the streets weren't bad enough, there is also forest park. The last few times I rode through there on the east side roads there were giant branches sprawled over the place.
But as can be seen here in this segment, those responsible for the upkeep of the trees and people's safety refuse to heed the voices of the public and shun them and their duties. And again, when there inevitably will be a casualty from a fallen branch, they will react accordingly, late as usual.
Forest Park is going to be the city's unwanted child for a long time because its in a district the mayor and his appointed idiots dont like. Much like the Dinkings era.
Things will get worse now that the people threw that backstabbing c^nt Crowley out on her ass.
The Mayor will do all he can to screw this district and toss buckshod & obstruction at Bob Holden any way he can.
The street and sewer contracts were already given to the worst bidders, and that's only gonna get worse too.
"Two dumb tree hating knuckleheads."
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn right into your sewer pipe !
Trees are good for the environment,they give us shade, absorb air pollution,give off oxygen and provide habitat for wildlife and NYC wants to plant a million of them but doesn't want the expense of taking care of them.Only a few years ago the city says if a tree is causing damage to your sidewalk they will do the repair work at no cost to the homeowner but what they don't tell you is the program has a list that is a mile long and underfunded.
My neighbor had been trying for 20 years to get the city to repair a raised sidewalk caused by a street tree.Finally a few months ago someone fell and sued, so he put out a few thousand dollars to get the job done.
There's a bill in the Assembly that Assemblyman Barnwell supports that would make the city responsible for the costs of sidewalk repair but he says it has no chance of passing because the city needs the money raised from summonses.
Are you sure that YOU don't belong in a sewer pipe among friends? LOL!
Blalasio has to be mandated to personally clean up the leaves from his million new trees
Leaves them street trees alone! LOL!
I once saw a woman girdling an NYC tree and reported her.
She got a $1,500 fine! Good!
"No like tree", she said.
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