Don’t want a tree? You’re getting one anyway, says city
If you’re a homeowner in Bay Ridge or Dyker Heights and you see a white chalk mark shaped like the letter “T” on the sidewalk in front of your house, don’t be alarmed. The “T” doesn’t stand for terror. It stands for tree. It means the city is going to plant as tree in front of your home.
The Bloomberg Administration’s ambitious MillionTreesNYC program is coming to Community Board 10, local officials announced. Part of the PlaNYC initiative to make New York a more healthy, environmentally friendly city, MillionTreesNYC is a public-private partnership in which the city will team up with businesses and organizations to fund the planting of 1 million trees in New York over the next 10 years.
“By planting one million trees, New York City can increase its urban forest—our most valuable environmental asset made up of street trees, park trees, and trees on public, private and commercial land—by an astounding 20%, while achieving the many quality-of-life benefits that come with planting trees,” according to a statement on the MillionTreesNYC website.