Vandals Rip Up Almost A Hundred Newly Planted Trees In Gerritsen Beach

Less than 30 day after bring planted as part of the MillionTreesNYC program close to a hundred saplings were ripped out and tossed to the side. Up rooting newly planted trees as part of the city's tree initiative is not new.

Brooklyn

This past weekend the Gerritsen Beach ball fields dugout and newly planted trees have been destroyed, according to GERRITSENBEACH.NET.

Vandals ripped up and tossed around more than a hundred trees. They also severely damaged the dugout bending fence poles completely out of shape.

Up rooted saplings strewn about.

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Gerritsen Beach is not going to take this sitting down! Why? Because all of the benches are gone!

20 benches, that’s right twenty! have either been uprooted or have gone missing from the tot-lot at Seba Avenue park. 15 Have been uprooted from the brick/cement base and 5 have gone complety missing. GBCares president John Douglas, who spoke with parks, recently said “kids were rocking the benches back and forth which ultimately loosened the bolts from the bricks”.

To be perfectly fair, most of the the other tot-lot playground equipment has also been destroyed or defaced.

Seba Avenue Park is no stranger to vandlism and problems. The park has been set on fire, all of the trees have been snapped, garbage thrown around and......

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