A Tree Goes In Brooklyn

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The future route of the Brooklyn Greenway grew a little less green this week, as crews preparing the foundation of the future Williamsburg Edge development removed one of the few street trees that remain along Kent Avenue on the Northside.

What's in a single tree you say? A lot, when its one of the five trees growing along the ten block stretch of Kent Avenue from Metropolitan Avenue to North 12th Street (and we're including two of the twigs that East River State Park planted streetside).

To be fair, the late tree was growing just inside the lot line, so the developer was probably well within their rights when they whacked removed it.