{"id":496464,"date":"2026-06-17T00:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/496464\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T00:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:52:11","slug":"climbing-trees-with-the-star-arborists-of-central-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/496464\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing Trees With the Star Arborists of Central Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swooning admirers aside, many fans of the video also seemed enchanted simply by the idea of spending one\u2019s days up in the trees, making sure that these living landmarks continue to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Barrett-Smith didn\u2019t grow up dreaming of being an arborist\u2014but that\u2019s only because he didn\u2019t know it was a job. \u201cI always liked working outside, I always liked working with my hands,\u201d he tells me, taking a break to chat after pruning a tree. \u201cAnd this is kind of the best of both worlds, because you get to be in Central Park every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He knows the ins and outs of the whole park by now, and one of his favorite areas is the East Meadow; he likes the \u201cbeautiful mature beeches and elms,\u201d and he likes seeing the doctors and nurses on their breaks from nearby Mount Sinai. His favorite part of the job, however, is the cohesion and camaraderie of the arborist team: \u201cWe often get to work all together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Adult Person Bag Plant and Vegetation\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0626_Arborists_HanaMendel_04.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photographed by Hana Mendel<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Grass Plant Adult Person Outdoors and Vegetation\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0626_Arborists_HanaMendel_01.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Brady Byers<\/p>\n<p>Photographed by Hana Mendel<\/p>\n<p>The Boston native studied biology in college, but his passion for the outdoors led him to work at a land trust and at Brooklyn Bridge Park, before landing at Central Park two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>What did he make of the fanfare about the videos of the team? \u201cI don\u2019t even have an Instagram,\u201d Barrett-Smith says, laughing. \u201cBut my mom actually texted me after the video was posted and was like, \u2018Your video has a lot of views.\u2019 The next morning, I looked, and I was like\u2026 this is weird. I was really surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swooning admirers aside, many fans of the video also seemed enchanted simply by the idea of spending one\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,9410,5098,7945,5101],"class_list":["post-496464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-living","tag-onecolumn","tag-textbelowcenterfullbleed","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}