http://www.gothamist.com/2006/12/30/2007_todo_getti.php All comments for 2007 To-Do: Getting Rid of Your Christmas Tree en-us 2007 design_jill Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:26:27 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss jpriluck@earthlink.net jpriluck@earthlink.net 60 http://www.gothamist.com/2006/12/30/2007_todo_getti.php#comment-866547 http://www.gothamist.com/2006/12/30/2007_todo_getti.php#comment-866547 Comments Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:57:40 -0500 <p>are you really suggesting it was better to have fires in the streets than to mulch the trees for reuse?</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2006/12/30/2007_todo_getti.php#comment-865606 http://www.gothamist.com/2006/12/30/2007_todo_getti.php#comment-865606 Comments Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:22:46 -0500 <p>In Brooklyn in the 50s we kids would just gather a bunch and burn them. Immediate conflagration and lots of fun. I've read 19th century accounts of those kids also torching the trees.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2006/12/30/2007_todo_getti.php#comment-865605 http://www.gothamist.com/2006/12/30/2007_todo_getti.php#comment-865605 Comments Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:19:52 -0500 <p>In Brooklyn as a kid up to the 1960s, we had a simpler solution to the discarded Christmas trees. We'd gather a bunch and light them. An immediate conflagration. We never got arrested because it was so prevalent. I've seen 19th century accounts of the kids doing it then. But NYC has become so Disneyfied since then.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2006/12/30/2007_todo_getti.php#comment-865426 http://www.gothamist.com/2006/12/30/2007_todo_getti.php#comment-865426 Comments Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:28:50 -0500 <p>even if you dont have a tree, and you know of someone who needs to get rid of their's and doesn't have the manpower to do it, help them. its for the city..</p>