Closing Bell: Upgrade for Flushing Tree Plantings
Over the last couple of weeks, the tree beds along Flushing Avenue, which were originally planted a couple of years ago, have been getting an upgrade in the form of these belgian block layouts. You likey?
Over the last couple of weeks, the tree beds along Flushing Avenue, which were originally planted a couple of years ago, have been getting an upgrade in the form of these belgian block layouts. You likey?
One day this war on sidewalks is gonna end. They day you realize there are no trees in the ghetto.
“It goes against a host of ADA guidelines”
Good thing, too, if we all followed the excessive ADA guidelines we’d be living in a sanatorium.
“The street tree standards for the City of New York are the worst in the country.”
You don’t get around the country much, do you? NYC does an excellent job with trees…planting, pruning, the initiative to plant 1,000,000 new trees. I know of no other city in the country taking steps to green their city like this one.
These are fine and they’re much less a hazard than those awful metal grates on which I’ve seen two different elderly people trip over and fall on the sidewalk, in the last month.
Also, friends, it’s just the top 4″ or so — it’s not as if it affects the whole well. Trees just grow around them, viz the at least 100-year-old trees on Washington Park and elsewhere — they just push the bricks up when they feel the need to expand.
I think they look good, myself.
The pit you see in this pictures IS actually an adequate size for the trees planted on Flushing…I believe Gingkos, some of them…
5:11: these are really bad for the trees which need to have as large an area as possible for their tree well. so perhaps you belong in vegas since you are advocating so strongly for something superficially pretty that is destructive of the natural environment.
i love these.
anyone who can look at the before and after and not appreciate the after, belongs in las vegas, where they have no trees.
The street tree standards for the City of New York are the worst in the country. It goes against a host of ADA guidelines, gets worse with age, becomes a trip hazard, and collects garbage.
Me no likey.