Berkeley Carroll Tree Bites The Dust
A century-old oak tree in front of Berkeley Carroll School Annex at 762 President Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Park Slope was taken down yesterday. According to the tipster who sent in these photos, this particular tree was the subject of much hand-wringing when the school was originally planning to build the three-story…
A century-old oak tree in front of Berkeley Carroll School Annex at 762 President Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Park Slope was taken down yesterday. According to the tipster who sent in these photos, this particular tree was the subject of much hand-wringing when the school was originally planning to build the three-story gymnasium back in 1996, so much so, that the school had to back away from its original plan to remove the tree then. (From the New York Times story on 11/17/96: “Here’s a tree, it’s been here well over a century, much longer than us,” said Byron Woollen, one of the protesters, “certainly much longer than the whims of a private school for an athletic center.”) One of the workers on site reported that the building itself had been propping up one of the main limbs for some time now. Presumably the whole thing had become a safety hazard.
I read somewhere that the City does not allow street trees, even oaks and other hardwoods, to be used for timber. Maybe because of possible beetle infestation?
Park Slope Dilemma:
Deciding which to scream in your loudest “privileged-upper-middle-class-but-one-with-the-People†shrill voice:
“Won’t somebody save the Children?! They need a school!â€
vs.
“Won’t somebody save that Lovely Tree?!â€
I’m guessing these are the same dipshits who were protesting the Atlantic Yards.
Same thought process, different issue.
“Hey someone wants to do something that will change stuff in some way and I hear a corporation is involved – let’s go protest!! Yay!!! Protest!!!! We’ll all have acid flashback to when we were dirty hippies giving each other syphilis at Woodstock!!”
I see a novel and future movie in the making:
“Losing my Humanity on the F Train”.
“What happened on the F train????”
There were humans on it.
What happened on the F train????
yeah you know you lead a charmed life when your biggest concern in life is a damn tree.
*rob*
Please tell me the wood didn’t end up in the chipper.
THERE WERE PROTESTERS??????
BECAUSE THEY CUT DOWN A SINGLE FUCKING OAK TREE??????
IT’S A TREE, PEOPLE, A GODDAMN TREE. A SINGLE TREE.
Protest for the sake of protest. Do these people actually know anything about trees?
Someone please find a human being with something resembling and ounce of common sense before I completely lose faith in the human race.
[j/k, j/k, I lost faith on the F train this morning]