This is a shot I took on my New York trip in August (see Urbanist Abroad) that I selected to illustrate a special feature of the city. (Nope, not the Citibikes nor the bike lane.)
This is the unit block of East 2nd Street, in a neighbourhood that doesn’t seem to have its own name yet; it could be one of six. Maybe the realtors have decided by now; I couldn’t really say.
But I could tell you the name of the tree just behind the white SUV (it’s a Japanese Pagoda), its ID No. (377062), its diameter (18″), and the value of its benefits to the city ($245.90). That’s US$, folks.
I know all that because of this:
It’s “the world’s most accurate and detailed map of a city’s street trees” – so says NYC Parks, with the help of thousands of volunteers. I’ll go along with that until I hear otherwise, but it does confirm something many feel about this metropolis of eight million.
It’s really just a village with attitude. Lots of attitude. And 678,670 street trees.
I assume that the parks board has a similar database describing Vancouver’s trees, at least for the street trees that they’re responsible for maintaining. Though I wouldn’t expect them to list all of the trees in Stanley Park, for example.
https://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/streetTrees.htm
There have been maps made, Mountain Math lists one but I can’t load it on this device.