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March 6, 2009

Department of Sanitation 1, Tree 0

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It's been a tough morning to be a tree on Washington Avenue. As we were biking past 266 Washington between Dekalb and Willougby at around 9:30 this morning, we heard a scraping noise at the garbage truck first made contact with the tree. The truck stopped before too much damage was done but then pulled forward, and the large branch came crashing down.




Posted by Brownstoner at 10:34 AM | Comments (20)
Categories: Clinton Hill, Streets

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Why are they plowing when the snow is already melting?

Posted by: dittoburg at March 6, 2009 10:38 AM

ditto...its a union job.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at March 6, 2009 10:43 AM

OMG, STOP THE PRESSES!

Posted by: ou812 at March 6, 2009 11:00 AM

What does this have to do with Park Slope?

Posted by: troll at March 6, 2009 11:07 AM

Its local news ou812. Were you expecting an expose on UN failure in Darfur?

Posted by: dittoburg at March 6, 2009 11:08 AM

News Flash! A Tree Falls in Brooklyn! No one was hurt except the tree! I was expecting to NOT hear about it.

Posted by: ou812 at March 6, 2009 11:55 AM

ou812...the tree didn't just "fall." It was hit by the garbage truck. You misread the whole story. :)

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at March 6, 2009 12:03 PM

8 posts on this already

Posted by: dittoburg at March 6, 2009 12:10 PM

make that nine

Posted by: bedstuyhoya at March 6, 2009 12:13 PM

bedstuyhoya....I haven't seen you here in ages. How goes it????

In the future, please add something useful to the thread when you comment. :)

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at March 6, 2009 12:17 PM

R.I.P.T.R.E.E.

Posted by: TownhouseLady at March 6, 2009 12:19 PM

DoS did the same thing to a tree on Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights when plowing on Monday night

Posted by: NorthHeights at March 6, 2009 12:23 PM

I didn't misread the story. Our illustrious NYC Parks Department should take care of the trees they plant and make sure limbs don't grow into oncoming traffic. Plant all you want, just make sure they grow up and not out. The truck didn't jump the curb and hit the tree, now did it?

Posted by: ou812 at March 6, 2009 1:10 PM

If a tree falls in Brooklyn and nobody hears...

Posted by: sixyearsandcounting at March 6, 2009 1:12 PM

ou812...even with the most insignificant of stories I feel I must get you back on track. You origianlly wrote:

"News Flash! A Tree Falls in Brooklyn! No one was hurt except the tree! I was expecting to NOT hear about it."

First of all it wasn't a tree. It was a branch, albeit a very large one. Secondly, it didn't fall. It was hit by a truck and broke off which you correctly realized in your later post. The truck did not have to jump the curb to hit it.

Your assessment of the duties of the Parks Department may or may not be correct, but it is only tangentially related to theis very interesting story.

I'd hate to see how confused you might get in a thread where the OP was 3, maybe 4 paragraphs. :)

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at March 6, 2009 1:20 PM

This is how trees in NYC get their distinctive look: No branches hanging over the roads.

It's sad to see branches get knocked off, but the limbs hanging over the street always get taken out like this.

I think the trees usually survive.

Posted by: Dan76 at March 6, 2009 3:37 PM

Dan76....that got me to thinking...maybe that's why there are so many Sycamores!!!!! They don't have low branches.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at March 6, 2009 3:39 PM

A symbol for what Dermot has been trying to do to rent stabilized apartments in the background (until yesterday's bombshell court decision against Tishman-Speyer and their Cooper Square takeover).

***Bid half off peak comps***

Posted by: Brownstones Half Off at March 6, 2009 4:06 PM

Dave,

I'm not off track and nor did I make any mistakes "Originally" that required any realization. But I can see how you can might think that by missing my first post and not understanding the nature of the second. Whilst your studious endeavors in reading contigous streams of verbiage are commendable, putting together disparate strings within appropriate context does not appear to be your forte. :)

Posted by: ou812 at March 6, 2009 4:22 PM

Your first post was

OMG!!!! STOP THE PRESSES

Don't see what that has to do with the second post which talks about the tree that fell.

I think my reading comprehension is just fine in this case.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at March 6, 2009 4:25 PM

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