Oct. 8, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen There are 600,000 pieces of living history in Brooklyn: trees. They fill the borough’s parks, line its streets, and shade its playgrounds and schoolyards, but their contributions often go unnoticed. In 1985, the city’s parks department set out to change that when it compiled the first list of…
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Clearing the air: 1,500 new trees at Green-Wood Cemetery will filter greenhouse gases, fight climate change
Aug. 6, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A tree grows in Green-Wood Cemetery — or, it will soon.
Branching out! New York Restoration Project to give away free trees for Earth Month
Apr. 2, 2024 By Jada Camille
New Yorkers are going green for Earth Month with the help of New York Restoration Project’s free tree giveaway.