Rocks on the Stump

I was walking through Tompkins Square Park yesterday, when I saw something strange. Someone had placed rocks on the stump that is all that remains of the tree that blew down back in July!

Behold:

Rocks on the stump.

As if that wasn't strange enough, today they were gone!

Rocks gone.

Who does this kind of thing?

One Step Forward

Back in August, I proposed that we remove the trees in the East Village and replace them with artificial trees.

Slowly, movement is being made in that direction, as you can see from this specimen on East 6th Street:

Branchless tree trunk.

It's quite beautiful, actually.

#eastvillage #6thstreet #trees #deadtrees

Shocking Discovery

I was walking down upper Avenue A recently, when I passed the formerly‑beloved Empire Biscuit (with probably the coolest doors in the East Village):

Cool doors.

Naturally, I took a peek inside.

Dead tree.

It was a dead tree.

What I discovered next will shock you. This is the sign in the window:

Sign in the window.

No Bar/Restaurant?! Who ever heard of a place opening up in the East Village that wasn't a bar or restaurant?

What do they think is going to open here, a shoe repair store?!

#eastvillage #avenuea #closed #deadtrees #empirebiscuit #signs

Funk To Funky

Do you remember a tree that's been
In such an early post?

It's been a while since I took a look at this funky tree, outside the beloved Clayworks Pottery on East 9th Street.

This is what it looked like back in November 2014:

Dead or dying tree in November 2014.

I found myself on East 9th Street again and wanted to take a picture of Clayworks, to comment on their spiffy new paint job:

Spiffy new paint job.

That's when I noticed that the tree there now didn't look like the tree from 2014.

I had to be sure, so I went back and took new pictures last month:

New picture last month.

It's different again! The only similarity is the metal cuff around the base.

Why do they do that?!

#eastvillage #trees #deadtrees #clayworkspottery #9thstreet #yellow

PMS 472 Tree

The East Village is, without a doubt, the most color-coordinated neighborhood in all of New York City!

So when this tree on St. Mark's Place died, instead of cutting it down and leaving an empty space, once seeing that the color of the dead leaves was PMS 472, they left it in place:

Dead tree left in place.

Just image how it will look with snow!

With snow!

#eastvillage #deadtrees #stmarksplace #trees #pms472 #snow