NYC Parks lists 175 Bushwick sites for new street trees, and says homeowners ‘may not reject planting’
Eldert Street has the most sites on the list, 21. The agency plans more than 3,300 Brooklyn trees through December and says it can't give exact planting dates.
NYC Parks lists 175 Bushwick sites for new street trees, and says homeowners ‘may not reject planting’
Eldert Street has the most sites on the list, 21. The agency plans more than 3,300 Brooklyn trees through December and says it can't give exact planting dates.
NYC Parks plans to put more than 3,300 new street trees in the ground across Brooklyn this fall, and Bushwick, Williamsburg and Greenpoint are all on the list. The agency announced the plan in an email from its Forestry team to Brooklyn Community Board 1 on August 17, covering which neighborhoods will see planting between October and December.
The agency calls it the Neighborhood Tree Planting Program. It plants block by block instead of dropping a tree here and there. Foresters cut new tree beds, pull dead and dying trees and their stumps, and finish a whole neighborhood before moving to the next one. NYC Parks says the goal is to get each area fully planted in one pass.
The targeted areas are sorted by community board. Bushwick, which is Community Board 4, is in. So is Community Board 1, covering Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Community Board 2 covers Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Vinegar Hill, Boerum Hill and Fort Greene. Bedford-Stuyvesant (Community Board 3), East New York and Cypress Hills (Community Board 5), Crown Heights North (Community Board 8), and Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Wingate and North Flatbush (Community Board 9) are all on the map too.
