{"id":362920,"date":"2026-10-02T15:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362920\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:36:17","slug":"ev-grieve-new-trees-a-rain-garden-and-a-mini-forest-taking-root-in-tompkins-square-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362920\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: New trees, a rain garden and a mini-forest taking root in Tompkins Square Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tree-mendous news out of Tompkins Square Park.<\/p>\n

A burst of planting activity continues in the park, with more to come over the next few weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Parks employees, 10 new trees were planted Wednesday alone around Tompkins, with many more expected before the work wraps up later on October.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Crews and volunteers also planted a new rain garden near the dog run, filling the area with native plants.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere in Tompkins, a mini-forest is coming to the Seventh Street side between Avenue A and Avenue B.<\/p>\n

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The work also includes improvements to sidewalk tree pits and planting beds, with old stones being removed, beds refilled and new stones installed. Crews are also performing tree maintenance.<\/p>\n

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Additional trees are expected along Avenue B between Seventh and Eighth streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tree-mendous news out of Tompkins Square Park. A burst of planting activity continues in the park, with more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-362920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362920","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=362920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}