From Architecture Daily, 11-28-2016:
New York City's Department of Parks and Recreation has completed its two-year project of assigning ID numbers (with arboreal characteristics) to every one of the 685,781 trees in the city's five boroughs. More than 2,300 volunteers walked the streets, then posted each tree's location, measurements, Google Street View image, and ecological benefits for the surrounding neighborhoods (rainwater retained, air pollution reduced)."
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By Jack Brummet
Our huge Italian prune tree partly came down in the first wave of the storm Thursday night (it had some serious internal rot). The tree bros came today to take it down before it hit our garage or the neighbor's shop. It took out a gutter on the garage, but missed everything else (including the hot tub by about two feet). The wood is amazing--I'll save a couple of big chunks for maybe lathing some bowls in the future.
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