Locals fight plan to chop down 78 healthy trees in For Greene Park, saying it’ll create a ‘summer frying pan’

Leaf these trees alone. Plant-loving locals are looking to block the city from chopping down 78 trees in Fort Greene Park – a move they say would turn the greenspace into a “summer frying pan.” A group of residents in Brooklyn’s trendy Fort Greene is suing the city and fighting with the parks conservancy over...