HIKIND CALLS ON PARKS DEPT. TO CUT DANGEROUS TREES, BRANCHES BEFORE NEXT WEATHER EVENT

NEWS FROM
ASSEMBLYMAN DOV HIKIND

November 19, 2012

Contact: Yehudah Meth                                                       For Immediate Release
973-945-4903 (cell)
 

HIKIND CALLS ON PARKS DEPT. TO CUT DANGEROUS TREES, BRANCHES
BEFORE NEXT WEATHER EVENT

“TAKE THIS IMPORTANT OUNCE OF PREVENTION
BEFORE LIVES ARE LOST”

Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) is calling on the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation to remediate the many trees that were damaged by Sandy but have not fully fallen yet. They are disasters waiting to happen, said the Assemblyman.


“This super storm has taught all of us hard lessons,” said Assemblyman Hikind, “not the least of which is an ounce of prevention is genuinely worth a pound of cure. In a proactive effort to prevent further power outages and, indeed, save lives before the winter is upon us, my staff surveyed Borough Park and Flatbush and found many potentially dangerous and some obviously hazardous trees and tree branches, many damaged by the hurricane and now poised to fall and wreak further havoc with the next big weather event.”


Assemblyman Hikind called on Veronica M. White, NYC Parks Commissioner, to immediately make remediation of the dangerous trees and branches the department’s number one priority. “Before the winter is upon us and the heavy snows fall, I am requesting that the Department of Parks survey the city for the types of hazardous tree situations that my staff has observed,” he said. “The remediation of these problems should be an immediate priority—certainly ahead of planting new trees—as lives can be saved by acting promptly.”