The Nature Conservancy in New York has released a first-of-its-kind report, The State of the Urban Forest in NYC, evaluating the New York City urban forest through multiple lenses, and establishing a common baseline understanding of this vital resource. The urban forest in New York City is composed of more than 7 million trees, as well as the associated physical and social infrastructure that supports it.Read More >
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 >
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 extreme heat, reducing…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 | 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 you can start by counting the trees in your neighborhood.Read More >
By Liz Donovan | CityLimits
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.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 >