Green-Wood Cemetery Lost 292 Trees in Sandy

Green-Wood Cemetery was the hardest hit cemetery in the city during Sandy, reports the Wall Street Journal, losing 292 trees. Officials have not had a chance to full assess damage to monuments, headstones and fences. Just a few blocks away, Prospect Park lost 319 trees during Sandy.

The New York Times has over a dozen pictures and several vivid descriptions of what’s happened:

The angel guarding the Lloyd family plot lost its head, an arm and the tip of its wing. The headstone of an 18-year-old boy, overturned by a falling pin oak, rests upside down beside its pedestal. “Thy will be done,” it says.

The clean-up will cost at least $500,000. On top of the damage from last year’s snowstorm and in the midst of three years of costly bad weather, resources are being stretched thin. A new wood-chipper was bought as an advance against next year’s budget, said Richard Moylan, President of Green-Wood.

Photo: New York Times