News Headline
Manhattan's Last Forest and the Nature of Cities Everywhere
Source
Huffington Post
Publication Date
2015-07-21
In the 1950s my grandparents moved my father and uncle out of the Bronx, New York, and into the New Jersey countryside on the other bank of the Hudson River. Growing up hearing stories from my dad about how felicitous it was to be plunked down into the open spaces and woodlands of the mid-century Jersey suburbs, I thought of New York City as a place devoid of natural areas. "The Big Apple" was to me a concrete kingdom adorned not with trees, but with towers of brick, glass, and metal.