The Amazing Volunteers of New York City
The city of Manhattan and the people living there are dedicated to the continued developments and improvements made to the parks located throughout the city, and to the city streets themselves. Some of those projects span one hundred years, as in the constant updating and renovations made in the park along the East River. One such project has been happening for fifteen years, and that is the planting of trees throughout the city during April. Million Trees NYC has teamed up with Adrian Bebepe, the commissioner for the city parks, and Gary Bagley, the Exec. Director of the organization called New York Cares.
The goal is that, within the next decade, one million trees will be planted, putting back twenty percent of the natural forests that were removed throughout the history of the city and creating not only a more pleasant atmosphere, but a more healthy one as well. Healthy for the souls and healthy for the bodies of all those living and working in the businesses, the city streets, and the small hotels. New York citizens are well known throughout the world, as those most willing to come together when their city or any of her people are in need of help and this occasion was no different.
More than 5,000 people were out last month, all volunteers, located throughout the city’s parks, tending to the landscaping there, while another 1,300 people planted trees throughout the city. In one day, twenty thousand trees were planted. In one day! That is the number of trees that are in Central Park, an amazing feat and an inspirational one as well. In the Bronx, citizens planted fifteen hundred trees in Claremont park. Brooklyn’s Spring Creek Park received two thousand trees. Staten Island was not left out, as two thousand more were planted there. On this one day, not only were the trees planted and tended but other areas of the city were as well. Many volunteers worked fixing up the city’s paths, spreading mulch in the gardens of the parks, and painting fences.
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