{"id":6708,"date":"2011-08-31T06:58:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T11:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2011-08-31T06:58:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T11:58:52","slug":"irene_tree_assassin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/08\/irene_tree_assassin.html","title":{"rendered":"Irene: Tree Assassin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three is, of course, a trend: The “controversial” Mansion Elm in Brooklyn Heights<\/a>, a “symbol of survival” against development in the East Village<\/a>, and even a “vagina tree” in McCarren Park all fall to the tree assassin that was Irene, the last of which evoking some cringe-inducing imagery in the Brooklyn Paper<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The sexy neighborhood curiosity near Bedford Avenue and the McCarren Park tennis courts has attracted a Foursquare page and even hosts its own Twitter feed, @TheVaginaTree.<\/p>\n

But Irene’s furiously swirling winds licked the tree forcefully enough to snap it just above its waist on Sunday. All that remains is a spent stump.<\/p>\n

The Foursquare’s account is now “closed.” On Monday night, the tree Tweeted what might be its last message: “I am the stump formerly known as Vagina Tree.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then there are those who quietly celebrated Irene’s ruthless instinct<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The fear of god kept an observant Jewish family from chopping down a despised fruit tree, so it took an act of god — Hurricane Irene’s winds of fury — to answer the prayers of neighbors on a small Midwood block.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Irene huffed and puffed and blew down a giant mulberry tree on E. 27th Street between Avenue I and Campus Road that for years had dropped sticky fruit on neighbors’ cars and littered the sidewalk with a tacky, dark-purple paste that made residents walk in the street to avoid stepping in the mess.<\/p>\n

“Everybody hated that tree,” said [a 73-year-old neighbor].<\/p>\n

Including the people who owned it, who for years refused to take the ax to the behemoth out of fear that god would smite them.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three is, of course, a trend: The “controversial” Mansion Elm in Brooklyn Heights, a “symbol of survival” against development in the East Village, and even a “vagina tree” in McCarren Park all fall to the tree assassin that was Irene, the last of which evoking some cringe-inducing imagery in the Brooklyn Paper: The sexy neighborhood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_natural_world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6709,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions\/6709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}