August 19, 2009, 12:14 pm
Updated: 5:05 pm
By Sewell Chan AND Sarah Maslin Nir
Storm Toppled Scores of Trees in Central Park (click title to entry - thank you)
...“Central Park has been devastated,” Adrian Benepe, the city parks commissioner, said in an interview on Wednesday morning. “It created more damage than I’ve seen in 30 years of working in the parks.”
Mr. Benepe added: “Some areas have had an almost total loss of trees. The Great Hill, the area around West 106th Street, has very large American elm trees. In that one area, several dozen trees went down.”...
