XPost: nyc.general, nyc.politics, talk.environment 
 From: adr5@columbia.edu 
  
 In article , 
 liberty@once.net says... 
  
 >A few years ago I posted here regarding what appeared to be unnecessary 
 >construction work on the New York City Parks Department's Ocean Parkway 
 >Malls in Brooklyn. This involved many months of work reconstructing benches, 
 >fences, paved and grass-covered areas, bicycle paths, etc. Residents were 
 >inconvenienced by the loss of the use of these areas, noise and pollution 
 >from machinery, and the loss of the many parking spaces adjacent to these 
 >malls. The cost was of course paid by us, the taxpayers. My objection to all 
 >this was that the fences, benches, and everything else DID NOT NEED this 
 >work. They were in generally good shape and THE SAME WORK HAD BEEN DONE 
 >ABOUT THREE YEARS PREVIOUSLY! 
 >Guess what? Now, about three years later, with these areas still in good 
 >condition, THEY ARE DOING IT ALL OVER AGAIN! The signs give the contract 
 >number as B065-103M, and the contractor is a local Brooklyn company. 
  
 This is really stupid and a waste of our money. 
  
 >This is not all that smells rotten in Brooklyn. Every so often a "tree 
 >service" comes around that seems far less concerned with the health of the 
 >trees on the Ocean Parkway Malls as in harvesting as much wood pulp as 
 >possible from them. Some once beautiful, fully-foliaged trees have been 
 >pruned until they are sparse and browning, even in early summer. A few have 
 >died and been cut down, ground to wood chips on the spot, as are all the 
 >prunings this tree service takes. 
 >This demands investigation! 
  
 The healthy trees you saw cut down may have been infested with the japanese 
 long horn beetle. 
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 Alex 
  
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