When Willamsburg Trees Wear Necklaces

Did you realize that today is Arbor Day? Gothamist didn't! Luckily, red pointed us to Carbon Based Forms's awesome Arbor Day gift to some trees in Williamsburg: Fifty trees along Bedford Avenue, between North 4th and North 10th Streets, each received a brass vanity necklace with type of tree, thanks to artists Cate Bryant and Gregory Kenney. CBF adds "have a look before they disappear, either through theft or happenstance." You can sponsor a necklaced tree here. And here's the picture that red took earlier of a Zelkova tree.

You can also volunteer with the Parks Department to count trees. And our other tree coverage of the day: Asian longhorned beetles were found in Central Park.