New Street Trees for Isham?

It looks like this stretch of Isham, the north side between Broadway and Cooper, will be getting new street trees to match those across the street (beside Good Shepherd).

If that is indeed what's happening here, these plantings will join other new trees taking root all over Inwood.

Comments

[uSkyscraper]

This is very, very welcome and great news. Just because Inwood is blessed with great parks doesn't mean our streets should not be as leafy as the Upper West Side.

While on the subject of tree pits, I have two lingering pet peeves:

- I've called 311 (as have others, I'm sure) to report the many barren tree pits along W218th St. They didn't get replanted last fall or this spring. I know the wait is long but hopefully this will get addressed. There are more empty tree pits along PTE and PTW near 218 as well...

- I'm still furious over the shoddy tree pit work done by the Parks contractor that rebuilt PTW a while ago. Many of the tree pits on the curve lost some or all of their Belgian Blocks, downgrading the appearance of the street. What is the appropriate conduit for fixing this? I wrote to Parks but no answer...

[eno]

the ptw work is shoddy. rule is contractors get to keep the original material taken up during construction. large slate stone, belgian block, cobblestone, etc. you'd think someone from the city would come around to inspect the work to be sure it was done properly before paying the contractor. but yes, it looks bad.

[Gotham Goddess]

A big mistake with tree wells is that if it is done incorrectly, they can often kill the trees. If the bricks or paving stones surround the trunk of the tree, the tree will, over time, die due to dehydration. Trees need space to grow and absorbent dirt, preferably with flowers, around its base so water can be absorbed. I know Supers and the city workers mean well when they make the pretty tree wells with the bricks tightly around the base of the tree, but it absolutely will kill the trees. Evidence of this can be found on Seaman Ave and PTW.
I am fine with no bricks around the big, healthy trees on PTW- let them breathe and grow! they need space not decorations.
Great Blog, BTW.