By Annel Hernandez, Shravanthi Kanekal, and Victoria Sanders | October 21, 2021 Our urban forest is a defining feature of New York City, providing New Yorkers with a variety of benefits, from cleaning the air we breathe and lending shade on hot days, to offering pockets of nature that act as a respite from the grind of…Read More >
September 27, 2021 Coalition Calls on Lawmakers to Uplift the Urban Forest and Its Benefits by Supporting the NYC Urban Forest Agenda. Forest for All NYC commends the New York City Council for holding today’s hearing on one of the City’s most vital natural resources – the urban forest. Whether it is providing shade during…Read More >
This episode considers the future of forests and what equity and repair in land management could and should look like. We start with a roundtable on the future of urban forestry in New York City with advocates from the Forest For All NYC coalition. In part two, ecologists and educators Dr. Angelica Patterson and Dr….Read More >
By Crystal Cranmore | Friday, August 29, 2021 NEW YORK (WABC) — There is a renewed effort in NYC to expand access to green space and fight shade inequality. According to the NYC Health Department, African Americans are twice as likely to die from heat stress as white New Yorkers. To understand this disparity, environmentalists say…Read More >
By Billy Richling, August 24, 2021 On a hot, overcast Friday morning, nine volunteers met up on Third Street in Gowanus ready to get their hands dirty.For about two hours, the volunteers spent time cleaning, de-weeding, watering and mulching young street trees in the area, ensuring they would be able to survive and thrive in…Read More >
By: Liz Donovan | August 12, 2021 New York is the third worst city—behind Newark, N.J., and New Orleans, La.—in terms of urban heat islands, with temperatures reaching an average of more than 7.6 degrees higher than less developed areas nearby. On a scorching Sunday afternoon in late July, Rev. DeForest Raphael wedged a mallet-like…Read More >
It’s summer in New York, and as those of us who live and work here know, our city is hot, and not always in a good way. We’ve already experienced multiple brutal heatwaves this season. New York is not alone; nationwide, there are dangerous, unprecedented rises in temperature that have claimed lives. It’s on these sweltering summer days that we become acutely aware of the important role that trees play in cooling our communities.Read More >
On the July 11, 2021 episode of City Watch on WBAI 99.5, host Jeff Simmons focused on the environment and climate change with guest Emily Nobel Maxwell, Director of the New York State Cities Program at The Nature Conservancy.Read More >
Forest for All NYC sent a letter to New York City’s elected officials urging them to fully restore funding for forestry in the City’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget and to invest the requested $8 million for nature and resiliency in the Play Fair campaign.Read More >
AM NY | By Emily Davenport
Forest for All NYC released a report that gives a clear roadmap for New York City’s urban forest. The coalition aims to create a healthy, accessible, and lasting urban forest in New York City that equitably delivers benefits to all. The group is made up of those committed to environmental justice and conservation, as well as non-profits, businesses, and government leaders and organizations, who spent two years developing the report.Read More >