Massive logging: Neighborhood angry at an ax criminal

Neighbors in a Brooklyn neighborhood in New York are fed up with their trees being vandalized, while an ax criminal has reportedly cut down more than a dozen trees in the area since August.

“It’s infuriating — it’s meanness. This is intentional. We can all see it. This person is looking for attention. She’s bored and angry and attacks something that’s vulnerable,” lamented landscaper Rigel Viren, who has lived in the neighborhood for a long time. , according to the New York Post on Wednesday.

Since August, the Greenpoint neighborhood has been on alert after noticing that three newly planted saplings in Transmeter Park had split in two, leaving volunteer gardeners “destroyed” by vandalism, Elissa said. The group told the New York Post.

Shortly after, several more trees were cut in two, just three blocks north of the park, according to US media.

The massacre was repeated again at the end of September, when a large-trunk tree in the same area was cut into two. Last week, two others suffered the same fate, according to what the New York Post reported.

“The blade tag looks really thin, and I think someone would hear if we used something with a real motor,” Julie Gamble, a member of the Friends of Transmitter Park board, told US media in bewilderment.

But beyond the vandalism, some consider the situation “alarming,” with someone likely walking around the neighborhood “with an ax in hand at night,” according to one volunteer, Stephanie Gregory.

He told local media that, while aware of the problem, the Parks Department was sending requests for photos, videos and testimonials to local mailboxes, in an attempt to “identify those responsible for this tree pesticide.”

The problem of logging has received a lot of attention recently, as a famous tree in the UK’s Sycamore Gap, which appeared in the movie Robin Hood, was cut down last week. A man has been arrested in the case.