Why are greens making it so hard to grow plants?

New York City likes to talk up its environmental bona fides, but Goham officials are making it difficult to do the one thing that would benefit our urban environment most - plant trees on city streets

For more than 10 years a sad, dead twig has extended like a gnarled witch’s finger from the sidewalk tree bed outside of my Williamsburg apartment.

It was once a young tree, I guess, but now bakes in the sun above an accumulated stockpile of litter and dog waste. I finally decided to do something about it.

Under the city’s Million Trees program, which off…