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January 13, 2009
I LOVE the Parks Dept!
You probably think I'm crazy...but I just called to follow up on my tree requests and they informed me that they are planting 15 trees on my block! This is great!
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Congratulations! I know your block will look great soon, AND you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you played a role in that. Sometimes (with enough time, faith and willingness) a working partnership with city agencies brings great results.
Posted by: vinca at January 13, 2009 11:10 AM
OK NOW THAT IS GREAT!
congrats!
Posted by: gemini10 at January 13, 2009 11:34 AM
How did you make it happen- I've got requests in for my address, but would really like to get the parks dept to plant around the whole block-
Posted by: Park Place at January 13, 2009 12:10 PM
I second Park Place's question...I've repeatedly put in requests...to no avail! how'd you do it?
Posted by: honeycut at January 13, 2009 12:17 PM
All I did was fill out that tree request form for everyones address on my street. I also checked off the box "consider to plant the entire street".
I originally requested a few trees last May for the December 08 planting. A girl from the parks dept called me and told me they got my request. I asked her when I could find out if the tree would get planted and she gave me her number and told me to call her in September. So I called and she told me they could only do 1 tree. Then, I called her again in late December to thank her for the tree and I asked her how I can get the entire block planted...she told me to fill out 1 request per address on the street, but to put my info for the contact person. So thats all I did and it worked.
I recommend to just go on the parks dept site and fill out the request for every address like I did. We only had 4 trees on our block...so Im sure there was more of an urge to plant here then a tree lined street elsewhere.
Posted by: nybk01 at January 13, 2009 12:48 PM
nybk01 - What do your neighbors think? Do they know what is coming? Will they know it was you that organized it?
Posted by: going4broke at January 13, 2009 1:08 PM
They dont know, but even if they find out thats not my problem. If they dont want a street tree they can go move to a plain in Kansas.
Posted by: nybk01 at January 13, 2009 1:13 PM
Or they can move to my barren block where I'm told the older folks revolted the last time that someone tried to plant trees because of the mess they cause and the fear of getting mugged on a shady block...
Posted by: Park Place at January 13, 2009 2:21 PM
lol...sounds good to me. If there were no people that cared about their neighborhoods people would complain...and if there are people that care about their neighborhoods people complain also.
Posted by: nybk01 at January 13, 2009 2:56 PM
That's great news. Will you need to have new tree pits created (i.e. have the sidewalk removed where the trees will be planted) or do the tree pits already exist? If not, will the Parks Department or DOT create the tree pits?
Posted by: 1842 at January 13, 2009 3:55 PM
i'm so jealous...my neighbors FREAKED OUT when i tried to have a tree planted. i waited a year for the tree guy to come and they threatened the poor guys life...i had to call it off :-(
the older residents can be a little nuts about the leaves (and alot of other things;-).
Posted by: CGmodern at January 13, 2009 4:46 PM
Tons of new trees on Waverly last week! Beautiful!
Posted by: superstooper at January 13, 2009 7:59 PM
Wow...I hope that doesnt happen here.
Posted by: nybk01 at January 13, 2009 8:00 PM
great!
Posted by: donatella at January 13, 2009 9:09 PM
park place: i too have requests in for our block (park place), to no avail. perhaps we can get together on this? do you have a direct email address? thanks.
Posted by: chelseagirl at January 14, 2009 10:32 AM
chelseagirl- unfortunately don't live on park place anymore- (though I miss it)
Now I'm on a fairly treeless block in greenwood.
Have you talked to the PPAN (Park Place Association of Neighbors) That's the block between 6th and 7th- they are very active and organized.
I just spoke to Erin Roche who is the tree planting coordinator for Brooklyn. She discouraged me from putting in a block request- she said it wouldn't happen for 7-8 years, and that they were focusing block requests specifically on East NY. Oh Well. She also said specifically not to submit an app for every address on the block- oh well.
Posted by: Park Place at January 14, 2009 3:12 PM
thank you, park place. i'll speak to our block association.
re my previous request: should i call 311 again? or is there a direct parks dept. number? i haven't gotten very far with 311. . . arghh!
Posted by: chelseagirl at January 15, 2009 9:57 AM
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