A report, entitled “The State of the Urban Forest in NYC,” looked at the seven million trees spread across the five boroughs, including those on private land, and observed notable disparities in canopy cover based on factors like race, English proficiency and housing crowding. (Staten Island Advance/Joseph Ostapiuk)
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — On Staten Island’s affluent South Shore, tree canopy cover is plentiful. Expansive swaths of the borough’s least-diverse neighborhoods have shade in abundance and the positive health and environmental impacts that come with a rich urban forest ecosystem.
Just miles away, Staten Island’s North Shore faces a starkly different reality. Parts of the Island’s northernmost neighborhoods, also its most diverse, have significantly lower “stocking rates,” a measure of the percentage of living trees of an estimated capacity, compared to the South Shore.
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