#urban-nature

#urban-nature

"It's a signature area of the city. Now that two are gone, residents are definitely asking residents about the removal of the trees."

"Hulking chestnuts festooned with blossom candles and copper beeches casting shade on office blocks create an enchanting environment, making nature an integral part of urban life in Cambridge."

"There were these little networks of people that formed around the duck, and concern for the duck," she tells Washingtonian.

"That was a huge event. That's the first time Astoria left Roosevelt Island that we know of in almost a year." - David Barrett, Manhattan Bird Alert.

It's amazing to look out my window and see this tree that has been around before any of this existed, yet I'm now concerned about its health.

The common hackberry, often dismissed as a trash tree, has a rough bark, sickly appearance, and is known for attracting invasive pests, particularly the woolly aphid.