Well I think it’s finally curtains for my sad little tree. It couldn’t cut it in Bushwick’s mean streets. I told myself as each branch was snapped over the past year that it was fine, the central branches would just grow that much taller. So finally someone who couldn’t stand to see something small survive finally snapped it right in half — they even took the top half with them.
If the mugger class thinks it’s won, I got some news. I will just get a bigger tree to put in. And I will not wait two years for the lumbering city bureaucracy to put it in for me, I am going to do it myself. And I will put a fence around the tons of fragile flowers I will plant come spring, so that thieving old ladies and little monster school children do not steal and stomp on them. Their acts of destruction — the pathetic throes of Bushwick’s fading anti-civilization — will result in even more of the beauty and cleanliness and greening that the thug culture hates. Then I and the rest of my decent neighbors will win.
Armstrong February 18th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
That’s turrible! Noticing other new trees in the hood, they tend be bigger models to start out with, and have two support poles on either side.
Good luck!
bambina February 18th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Some people are just mean for no good reason.
Tony T February 18th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
A Tree Dies in Brooklyn…Jeremy, try planting an Ailanthus altissima, they grow in toxic waste and most bushwickers ignore them. Or next time plant a tree and call it “Job”. That will keep most locals away.
Dresden February 18th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Do not call the city. They might charge you for funeral expenses… I’m dead serious. If your tree dies in front of your building, you’re responsible.
Martha February 19th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
what a sick site that tree is
showing no sign of life
only asking to be pitied
who’s done this?
which careless foot
clomped over it
uprooted and killed it -
Will anyone shed a tear
over its demise?
And who cares if true
that no more tree grows
in Brooklyn nu mure.
(J: Keep up the good spirit)