Chinatown is a land of good food, colorful shops, and fresh produce. It is also a land of about three trees in a ten-block radius. The sidewalks may already be packed with produce-unloading delivery boys and boxy, bag-toting Chinese ladies, but we’ll gladly make way for some quaint, tree-lined street action. To jump-start the Great Chinatown Tree-Planting Movement I pulled out the temporary spray-chalk and started marking some choice spots on the sidewalks for the City to plop some green ones.

It just so happens that April is MillionTreesNYC Month, highlighting the cool new program initiated by PlaNYC that makes it easy for residents to get involved in tree-planting good times. Shooting for one million new city trees in the next decade, the program gives hope to the leafless sidewalks of Chinatown that yearn to be charmingly lined with more than garbage bags. We call those black bushes! Please give us trees.

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