New Guards for PS 217 Trees

Earlier this week, the city unexpectedly installed these lovely tree guards around the newly-planted trees on Coney Island Avenue in front of PS 217. Maria Newsom-Fahey, a 217 parent who has been actively working to help out these trees and had been lobbying the city to install some guards, writes:

I also want to reassure you that we are organizing: we will water, we will weed, we will mulch; in short, we will do all in our power to make sure every newly planted sapling, on both sides of CIA between Newkirk and Foster survive the hot, nearly shadeless summer!

Thanks to Donald Loggins for sending the photo!