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On a breezy Monday morning on a quiet corner of Queens, 11 leafy new neighbors arrived on a truck, fresh from a nursery in Kansas City.
Elm, red maple and cherry trees — some with pink blossoms — would be planted next to the sidewalks across a few blocks of Cambria Heights, a suburban-style neighborhood of homes with grassy front lawns.
As workers hoisted a tree out of a bag surrounding its roots, a woman with a phone to her ear leaving a nearby house called out to ask what kind of tree the workers were planting: an elm that would grow to be up to 70 feet tall over the next three to four decades.
“Adding to the family!” she exclaimed, grinning, before getting into a car.
Cambria Heights is among the neighborhoods with the highest risks of extreme heat, where temperatures are hotter than the city’s average and where some blocks lack any trees.
Monday’s tree-planting session came as part of a strategy in its second year that prioritizes putting new trees in the neighborhoods most vulnerable to extreme heat, rather than in response to ad hoc 311 requests, as had been done in years past.
And planting those trees took on a particular significance as the Mamdani administration on Tuesday released an ambitious plan to expand the tree canopy to cover 30% of the city by 2040 — starting with the most heat-vulnerable neighborhoods. Read more here.
Weather ☀️
Sunny, with a high near 50.
MTA 🚇
The Fifth Ave./53 St. E and F train station is exit only from 6:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Straphangers can enter instead at the nearby Lexington Ave/53 St. station. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.
Alternate side parking 🚙
It’s in effect today, April 21.
By the way…
The forecast calls for chilly temperatures this week, and it is still “Heat Season” — when landlords are legally required to provide heat during the day when the temperature is below 55 degrees and at night, regardless of the temperature outside.
Our Other Top Stories
Only 42% of likely Democratic primary voters in the House district spanning Upper Manhattan and parts of The Bronx would vote for longtime incumbent U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat in June’s primary election, according to an internal poll from challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier. Read more here
As Midori Valdivia takes the wheel of the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission, she is encountering an industry with other women in key leadership roles — and where the number of trips with females in the driver’s seat is growing. Read more here.
The former president with a supposedly funny name who was smeared as an African-born socialist made a surprise appearance at a Bronx pre-school that opened up on a Saturday so the tots could hang out with him and New York City’s actually African-born socialist mayor with a supposedly funny name at a very sweet and tightly stage-managed event open only to invited press. All that and much more gets discussed on the latest episode of the FAQ NYC podcast.
Things To Do
Here’s what’s going on around the city this week.
Tuesday, April 21: Attend an early, free screening at Regal Union Square of the movie “Deep Water,” a survival-driven thriller about a commercial flight that crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Free, at 6:15 p.m., with first-come-first-served passes here.
Wednesday, April 22: Help keep Randall’s Island Park beautiful by working with the park’s horticulture team to care for its many gardens, green streets and meadows. Free, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Register here.
Wednesday, April 22: Dancers, actors and musicians from The Juilliard Green Club take the stage at Lincoln Center to present n immersivea multi-genre concert experience that considers our collective futures in the face of climate change. Free, at 7:30 p.m.
THE KICKER: Meet the city kids turned chess prodigies, and the growing industry of pricy, intensive camps they are attending to become champions.
Thanks, as always, for reading. Make it a great Tuesday.
Love,
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