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It was, um, interesting out in my corner of Queens.<\/a><\/p>\n

And the cleanup is now underway.<\/a> Some choice shots, courtesy NY1, below.<\/p>\n

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\nUPDATE:<\/strong> The New York Times assesses the tragic loss of trees,<\/a> and finds some poignancy: <\/p>\n

\nIn All Faiths Cemetery in Middle Village stood another cherished tree, a towering live oak thought to be 180 years old. It was about 90 feet tall. After the storm, all that remained was the bottom 12 feet.<\/p>\n

“It was a cool-looking tree,” said Daniel C. Austin Jr., the cemetery’s vice president. “It had these beautiful arms. Every time we drove by it, we used to talk about it.”<\/p>\n

Grief was palpable in Forest Hills Gardens, a private nest of Tudor and Georgian homes in Queens that is one of the city’s greenest neighborhoods, home to hundreds of trees.<\/p>\n

It was only recently that the residents’ association planted 70 more — maples, oaks and London planes. These newcomers, so much life left in them, bore the brunt of the storm.<\/p>\n

Edward and Vera Ward, who live just outside the enclave, stroll through the neighborhood every day, drawn by the serenity and welcoming shade of the tall trees.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Mr. Ward, 58, was snapping pictures of men sawing a supine tree into bits.<\/p>\n

“It’s like a part of me is gone,” he said, and his eyes welled up.<\/p>\n

An elderly man was mourning a maple tree that he had planted outside his house on Dartmouth Street when he was a teenager. It grew as he grew. It was one more that the storm took. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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