NYC Waterfalls are killing the trees...lmao

Scattered around this great city of NY are five four useless wastes of metal and money known as the NYC Waterfalls.  I think I've seen them all and I'm not impressed, especially when the money that went into this project could have been filtered throughout the city in a number of other USEFUL ways, but who am I to judge, right?  Anyhoo I found this quite amusing.

NYC Waterfalls May be Killing the Trees!

Artist Olafur Eliasson may soon have tree blood on his hands – the Brooklyn Bridge waterfall installation is kicking up such a salty spray that downwind trees are turning brown and “looking as if it's November,” the Post reports. The saltwater is interfering with their photosynthesis, and the owner of the River Café, which has gardens just south of the bridge, is worried that the trees he planted over three decades ago are suffering too much for public art. The Parks Department agrees they're “showing signs of stress,” and the Public Art Fund, which is producing the NYC Waterfalls, has hired a tree service to try and save them.

 

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  • 8/6/2008 11:58 AM metalfacedoom wrote:
    There's five? I thought there were four useless wastes of metal and money known as the NYC Waterfalls:
    - Governor's Island
    - Brooklyn Bridge
    - Brooklyn Piers
    - Pier 35 (near the Seaport
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    1. 8/6/2008 2:05 PM Miss Shay wrote:
      Right you are my dear.
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