Tag: trees

He uses trees as portals through which people can connect more deeply with nature, a concept similar to birding.

NYC Parks offers the public "the most comprehensive and up-to-date 'living tree map' in the world."

Why did the city cut down several healthy trees?

Winds have been picking up on Tuesday afternoon as Tropical Storm Isaias hits the East Coast, and they're starting to do damage in the neighborhood.

A tree next to a construction site on 100th Street and Riverside Drive came tumbling down, falling across the avenue and smashing

A large section of a tree fell in Riverside Park on Monday afternoon, smashing a bench underneath and nearly hitting a woman and two children, according to a witness.

Broadway, the spine of the Upper West Side, is the neighborhood’s hydrological divide: water on the west side flows toward the Hudson, while

Anne Monoky Goldman shielded her children from an Elm tree that fell on them as they walked in Central Park near

Monday's brief but ferocious thunderstorm tore through the neighborhood, bringing down trees and sections of buildings. In Central Park, the

A severe thunderstorm late Monday afternoon smashed trees throughout the neighborhood, even slamming one into a moving car.

This Sunday from 12 to 2 p.m the West 80's Neighborhood Association will hold an annual event to fix up the street trees in the neighborhood.

A giant linden tree lost half of its canopy in this afternoon's thunderstorm closing the Dog Run in Riverside Park at 72nd Street, a privately

It's the second annual love your street tree day on the Upper West Side this Sunday, and the West 80's Neighborhood Association is looking

Now that almost all residential streets in Manhattan and many in other boroughs have trees lining the islands and streets, I realize it is fifty-two years since our efforts to

Kester Jack, a 28-year-old Brooklynite, was arrested Thursday for sawing down three trees on West 94th street between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive.

Someone stripped the bark off of a tree on the East side of West End Avenue at 103rd street, and neighbors and city officials are now seeking an explanation.

Stretches of Amsterdam Avenue have been a concrete jungle for decades, but reader Steven Weisz says that the avenue finally got some greenery today near the corner of 81st street as the city started planting trees. He's been waiting for them since at least the early 1990's. Dogs are also ...

Central Park has begun releasing photos from the park in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and the damage is clearly substantial. Please remember: the park remains closed, and going inside will just make it more difficult on conservancy staff and police. The conservancy has hired contractors, helped by staff, to ...

We have a mystery on our hands. A local recently saw workers cutting down the trees that give shade to a parking lot and playground in front of Central Park Towers and Park West Village between 97th and 100th Street off of Central Park West. "his is the very large ...

April 30, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 61 Degrees.