4,000 trees grow in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Artist to Build a Redwood Forest in Downtown Brooklyn
Nature’s skyscrapers will be joining Downtown Brooklyn’s skyscrapers this weekend for local artist Spencer Finch’s “Lost Man Creek,” a new public art exhibit that will recreate — at a 1:100 scale — 790 acres of Redwood National Park in the heart of Brooklyn.
Redwoods are the world’s tallest trees, topping out at 380 feet. These massive trees can have diameters as wide as 24 feet, weigh as much as 1.6 million pounds and live to be 2,000 years old. And although these giants are indigenous to the West Coast, Finch will be bringing Brooklyn its very own redwood forest.
By this Saturday, the artist will have planted 4,000 young dawn redwoods on the eastern triangular lawn of MetroTech Commons. While dawn redwoods are the smallest of three species of redwoods, they can still grow up to 100 feet in height. The trees in Finch’s installation will grow to be 1 to 4 feet.