Volunteer Tree Pruners in Crown Heights?

Is anyone here a volunteer tree pruner or arborist, or do you know of any groups I might be able to contact? I have a street tree on my block that desperately needs shoots to be pruned away so that the tree's energy can be directed towards the main branches. I put in a request through 311, but I doubt they will be able to get to this before the pruning season is over. Thanks!

Met Robin in Brower Park? She a gardener

What's the block. I will have a look.

On New York Ave, south of the intersection with Sterling Place. There is a tree on the east side of the street (three trees down from the intersection) that has lots of shoots at the base of the branching that probably need to be pruned. Let me know what you think!

Such a sad tree.

contact NYRP. Now that they are about to hit one million trees planted, they tend to take care of community gardens and surrounding trees.

Just spitballing here, but might this tree be dead/dying? It seems a bit unusual to have that much growth mid-tree and none on the top. I didn't think trees got male pattern baldness!

I agree. That tree looks sick/diseased/dead/dying. I'd love to be wrong, but that doesn't (and admitting and I'm no garden expert) look normal. 

I can't link at the moment, but the Prospect Heights Street Tree Task Force is active in Prospect Heights, and may be willing to go east.

Just search in Facebook.

Several of their long term members know Brooklynian well, as a result of a guy that destroyed trees....

ill go there with my pruner,  what ever juicis still there needs to go to the top.

done, done, done and done. and did every 

other tree that had suckers on the way there and back home

please make sure that tree gets water

Thank you @tsarina! I will water tomorrow.

Suckers? Tsarina, please explain.

All those little shoots and branches are sucking energy away from where you want the growth to be.  Hence suckers!  just like a tomato plant has useless little leaves that shoot up between bigger branches, you have to pinch them out to allow nutrients to flow where they are needed.Look at the picture of the tree.  Those twigs, branches below the 5 foot mark are only sapping energy away from where it is needed. I always pull those off trees when I walk by.  Once they are bigger they need to be cut off with pruners.  

you might be able to get a referral from either GreenThumb or the Bklyn Botanic Garden re: arborists.