Death of A Tree
News Source : The New York Review of Books
News Summary
- Benjamin Swett photographed a Callery pear in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan
- The tree was cut down at the request of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as part of the planned extension of the 7 subway line to Hudson Yards
- New York City contains about seven million trees, distributed along streets, highways, shorelines and cemeteries
Some years ago I published a book called New York City of Trees. On facing pages of photographs and text, it presented portraits of fiftyfive trees in the citys five boroughs. One was of a Callery [+33060 chars]
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