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New York's about to get a lot shadier. According to the NY Times, the City Planning Commission just approved a new section of the Zoning Resolution, that requires developers to plant trees. For every 25-feet of street, one tree must be planted. This new rule goes hand in hand with MillionTreesNYC, an initiative of the Parks Department and New York Restoration Project that aims to plant one million new trees in the next ten years (a number that doesn't take into account programs like Trees Not Trash).
The last tree census, held in 2005-2006, counted 592,130 trees growing from the city's streets, 93,000 more than ten years prior. The London planetree is the city's most popular species, followed by the Norway maple. Surprisingly, the Ginkgo is the least most plentiful, making up only 2.8 percent of city trees.
Here are a few of the super-hero actions of trees, according to MillionTreesNYC:
- One tree can remove 26 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually.
- Street trees intercept 890.6 million gallons of storm water annually.
- They provide $52 million each year in increased property values.
- They provide food and shelter for many species of birds, insects, and other wildlife.
Read this list of some of the best types of trees to plant in New York City, and get ready for one hell of an Arbor Day.
Photo via Abbyladybug's Flickr.
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One per twenty-five feet? I guess that's a good start, but considering the attrition rate of trees in cities, maybe this will yield one tree per seventy-five feet after a couple of years...
TREES!
ENTS!
Japanese Cherry trees thrive in the NYC environment and are particularly beautiful.
No thanks to the Staten Island politicos and the S.I. Parks Commish. They're being paid off by contractors who tear out tons of nice, large existing trees and scream bloody murder when forced to replace them. You lost hundred year old trees and get a sapling with a 50% chance of survival. This just because they don't want to redesign where some driveway goes. Staten Island: SUVs before trees.
The economic study on city trees as reported in the NY Times is a load of self-serving crock that pompous busybodies thrive upon.
See more here:
http://iceberg18.blogspot.com/2007/04/socialist-tree-calculation.html
More trees; fewer people!
vhemt.org
How about when the leaves fall off and make a mess not to mention clog the sewer drains? How about when the trees collapse because of a wind storm?
Re: #4
Callery Pears and Magnolias too.
Wow. Everybody, except MT and Think twice, is reacting so harshly. WTF? MillionTreesNYC started planting in my neighborhood (E. Harlem) last summer. Frankly, nothing could be more welcome in this rather bleak, tree-less part of Manhattan. Furthermore, when I notified the program about some new plantings that were in peril, I received a response immediately, and the new trees were attended to within a week.
ping, people will always find a way to complain or be against every kind of government action.
Trees are a good thing. We should all want more trees in the city. For all the good that this would bring, people are still using the very small negatives and acting as if this is a horrible idea. Ridiculous.
The only funny part to me is that they mention "food and shelter for insects" as if that's something we want or care about.
Re: #10 and #11
"Just say 'EVERYTHING STINKS', that way you're never wrong."
- from The Ren & Stimpy Show
:-)