Queens Pols Can Tell a Lie About Chopping Down Cherry Trees

George Washington's ghost must be ready to haunt the hell out of the Queens Borough Hall, after the borough president's office said that it was going to protect a number of trees that graced the courtyard of the borough hall, and then had them all chopped down while building a new $17 million atrium. The tree massacre, as it is being called, was a cost-cutting move as well as a sap spiller. Transplanting trees is not a capital expense. Buying new trees to replace the ones you chop down is a capital expense.
· Tree Massacre At Queens Borough Hall [AWalkinThePark]