"The reality is, almost every street tree growing in New York City today has never lived through this kind of drought and we won't know how bad the street trees are impacted until there is a mortality count in the spring or summer," said Matthew Lopez-Jensen, an assistant professor at the New School's Parsons School of Design in Manhattan.
"They are living under conditions that no trees, especially in Manhattan, should have to live with," Lopez-Jensen added. "The amount of heat reflected on them [from city buildings] is unbelievable - the sun is being blasted at them from all sides."
Lopez-Jensen, also an environmental artist and contributing author at the New York State Urban Forestry Council, told The Post that the city is facing a 'street tree emergency' with trees 'essentially being evaporated.'
An X post from Parks from 2022, however, notes that 'young street trees are especially vulnerable to extreme heat and drought,' encouraging New Yorkers to give their local trees a 'long, slow soak' of four to five buckets of water when it hasn't been raining.
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