Readers Write: G.N.’s environment under assault

The Island Now

Has it occurred to anyone that the wanton and massive destruction of both houses and trees which has occurred in Great Neck over the last 30 years has materially compromised the structural integrity of trees on adjacent properties and neighborhood-wide?  

And, the resolution to this is to destroy more trees – healthy trees as well as unhealthy?    

Green space and vegetation have been annihilated as gargantuan residences replace smaller edifices, destroying root systems and water saturation capability.   

The New York Times identifies deforestation of hillsides for development purposes as the cause of the life-threatening mudslides which have occurred in the Pacific Northwest.  Is this what we want?  

Flood hazard in addition to falling trees?

Instead of  allowing Lawyer Bee, whose background is in law rather than in ecological preservation, to address a future response to the predicament in which we find ourselves,  let us engage an ecosystem specialist who can advise us on the protection of adequate green space per property rather than the wholesale slaughter of healthy trees which will exacerbate, not relieve, the peril.

In closing, I would like to express my profound thanks to those individuals who entered into litigation to protect Kings Point Park and its trees and to the New York State Appellate Court for upholding the Supreme Court decision supporting that protection.   

We are deeply in their debt.

Melanie A. Miller

Great Neck

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