When it comes to trees, NYU giveth and NYU taketh away. Now they're in giving mode, and the latest re-gifting started this week. The design for the public open space divides the block-long Mercer Plaza into three outdoor rooms with seating areas "that allow for quiet reflection or conversation" (but built to discourage sleeping and other undesirable activities). When complete, wood-planked surfaces will be surrounded by sloping planting beds filled with flowering shrubs and perennials. Planted throughout will be native trees?sweet gums, tulip trees, witch hazel, and others?giving shade to the area below and softening the lines of Warren Weaver Hall, the 14-story brick and glass tower that has stood beside the site since 1965. Now that this fight is nearing its end, can we all just get along? Seeing what's to come: fat chance.
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