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Growing Hopes and Fears for Trees
Print- Published in: City Limits
NYCity News Service
A NEW LEAF: The MillionTreeNYC planting program comes as budget cuts and stormy weather impact trees across the city.
The storm was not supposed to happen. Instead of a leafy autumn in New York, with beautiful foliage shading children out for Halloween trick or treating, the city was pummeled by an unusually early snowstorm.
The cost of that damage reached untold millions of dollars, and was made worse by something as simple as an autumn leaf.
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