« Battle For Brooklyn: 5th Best Movie Of The Weekend | Main | More contrasts between Staples Community Benefits Agreement in Los Angeles and Atlantic Yards CBA »
June 21, 2011
Nets start planting roots in Brooklyn (we mean that literally)
The Brooklyn Paper
by Natalie O'Neill
Really? This is a story?
The Brooklyn-bound basketball continues to pitch itself as a good neighbor, this time by promising to donate hundreds of trees to the borough.
In September, the team will plant 300 oaks and maples in open spaces around the borough — like in Fort Greene Park — as part of its “Trees for Threes” effort, which matches one tree with every three-point shot made during the team’s 24-58 season.
NoLandGrab: They'll need to plant about three million trees to offset all the carbon emissions that their traffic-choking arena will generate.
Related coverage...
Atlantic Yards Report, The Brooklyn Paper covers an Atlantic Yards story (it's about tree-planting)
The Brooklyn Paper comes a little late to the media event June 17 that was the tree-planting sponsored by the Nets and the Barclays Center, but there's a story today headlined Nets start planting roots in Brooklyn (we mean that literally).
Last week, as I pointed out, the newspaper neglected to cover three Atlantic Yards-related meetings, though today's story does mention the lingering anger (which the newspaper first wrote about last month) over planned traffic changes.
Posted by eric at June 21, 2011 9:57 AM