{"id":209321,"date":"2026-04-25T08:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209321\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:24:16","slug":"lack-of-trees-impacting-low-income-neighborhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209321\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of trees impacting low-income neighborhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city\u2019s first \u201cUrban Forest Plan\u201d shows tree coverage across the five boroughs is 23%.<\/p>\n<p>It plans to grow that number to 30% by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>Peggy Shepard, the executive director of We Act, an environmental justice group, joined \u201cNY1 at Ten\u201d on Friday to talk about how the lack of tree shade in low-income communities has dangerous impacts.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city\u2019s first \u201cUrban Forest Plan\u201d shows tree coverage across the five boroughs is 23%. It plans to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[78289,25,7490,82937,9,24,55,54,12,56,2370,27,200],"class_list":["post-209321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-live-at-ten","tag-app-top-stories","tag-cheryl-wills","tag-dana-mathura","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-ny1-interviews","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}