Caring for Street Trees Workshop 6/20/07

Caring for Street Trees Workshop

Wednesday, June 20, 7 - 9pm
Sunset Park Recreation Center
7th Ave. and 43rd St.

Learn how to care for young street trees and greenstreets at this popular workshop. You will receive a free set of tools and get to apply for a Parks volunteer permit to garden and maintain young trees and greenstreets throughout the city. Presented by the New York Tree Trust and Partnerships for Parks. To register or for more information, email [email hidden] or call (212) 676-1929.

On this topic, I have to say that I have been dismayed by the lack of trees on so many streets in Sunset Park (doesn't help that I moved here from very leafy 6th Avenue and Park Place in Park Slope). Whole swaths are in fact treeless, which makes for a long hot slog to the subway! Thankfully, there are two large trees right in front of our building....Is it true that the city owns all trees along the street, and thus it is the city's responsibility to both plant and care for these trees? I suppose this workshop may well answer many of my questions, so I will definitely try to make it. Thanks for posting the info.

The City plants them, you own them (though it is illegal to trim them). City tree trimming is on a 10 year cycle (which stinks, since all the trees on my block are approx. 20 years old and are in desperate need of a haircut :evil: ), call 311 to put in a request.

If you would like more trees on your block, contact CB7 for forms and give them to your neighbors. Ultimately they have to give their AOK since it becomes their liability.

Raedog wrote: On this topic, I have to say that I have been dismayed by the lack of trees on so many streets in Sunset Park (doesn't help that I moved here from very leafy 6th Avenue and Park Place in Park Slope). Whole swaths are in fact treeless, which makes for a long hot slog to the subway! Thankfully, there are two large trees right in front of our building....Is it true that the city owns all trees along the street, and thus it is the city's responsibility to both plant and care for these trees? I suppose this workshop may well answer many of my questions, so I will definitely try to make it. Thanks for posting the info.

If you already have the pits in place and are willing to buy the tree and plant it yourself they will issue you a free permit to do so. I think the main thing they want to approve is the tree species to make sure it is compatible as a street tree and is not going to attract the Asian Longhorned Beatle.

You can also request that the city come and do everything but you won't get to choose which tree you want and it can take some time. The one that I requested took about 2.5 years to be put in but no pit existed.

The trees on my block definately need a trim. I used to be able to see the kids when they were outside playind and now I see nothing but leaves.

seven24 wrote: The trees on my block definately need a trim. I used to be able to see the kids when they were outside playind and now I see nothing but leaves.

I wish we had that problem on my block. Large trees are such a great asset.