T For Travel

One aspect of the city of New York that is strange when one visits for the first time, is that metropolis is green, filled with plants and flowers hanging from the fire escape “balconies” of the apartment buildings, throughout the parks of the city, and along the streets where rows of trees shade the windows and the doorways of the NY hotels,  museums, restaurants, and shops.  The city has been home to some of the trees for years.  One interesting walk through the city is the search for the oldest tree on the island.  Although many candidates are in the running for that title as the Magnolia Tree the stands in Brooklyn, the Hanging Tree in Washington Square Park, and the White Oak tree that stands in Pelham Bay Park.  One of the traditional characteristics of the commissioners of the Parks and Recreation organization in New York is the planting of trees on a regular basis, along with the constant care of the city’s many gardens located in the parks.  This is similar to the city of Chicago’s devotion to the flowers that decorate that cities streets, and gardens located abundantly throughout the neighborhoods and park’s of the windy city.

Last month more than five thousand volunteers were brought together by the commissioner and organization called New York Cares.  The goal of the project is to have one million trees throughout the city during the next ten years.  So far, 20,000 trees have been planted last month, on one single day alone.  This is an attempt at creating a more visually beautiful city, and is an environmental action as well.  With the planting of the million, the forests of the city will be increased by twenty percent.  Hands on New York Day, brought the city together, and the communities throughout felt a spirit and a joy in the connection of not only participating in the same event at the same time, but in partaking in something that will forever affect those living and working in the city, and will inspire those traveling and touring Manhattan for the first time.  The people are bringing the forest into downtown, and the forest will breath more life into the communities, the atmospheres and the feel of this already vibrant American city.

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