Neighbors in a Brooklyn neighborhood in New York have had enough of having their trees vandalized while an ax criminal has reportedly cut down more than a dozen in the area since August.
“It’s infuriating – it’s meanness. This is intentional. We can all see it. This person is looking for attention. She’s bored, she’s angry, she’s attacking something vulnerable,” lamented landscaper Rigel Ferrin, who lived in the neighborhood for a long time, according to the “New York Post” on Wednesday.
Since August, the Greenpoint neighborhood has been on alert after noticing that three freshly planted saplings in Transmitter Park had been broken in two, leaving volunteer amateur gardeners “destroyed” by the vandalism, Elissa said. Iberti, president of the Friends of Transmitter Park volunteer group, told the NY Post.
Shortly after, several other trees were sawed in two, just three blocks north of the park, according to the American media.
The carnage was repeated again towards the end of September, when a large-trunked tree in the same area was sawed in two. And last week, two others would have suffered the same fate, according to what the “NY Post” was able to observe.
“The blade mark looks really, really thin and I think someone would hear if we used something with a real motor,” Friends of Transmitter Park board member Julie Gamble told the media outlet in bewilderment. American.
But beyond the vandalism, some consider the situation “troubling,” since an individual is likely walking around the neighborhood “with an ax at night,” according to one of the volunteers, Stephanie Gregory.
Well aware of the problem, the Parks Department would have sent requests for photos, videos and testimonies to local mailboxes, in an attempt to “identify those responsible for this arboricide,” he told the media. local.
The issue of tree felling has received a lot of attention recently as a famous tree in Sycamore Gap in the UK, featured in the Robin Hood film, was cut down last week. A man was arrested in the case.
2023-10-05 12:55:44
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