A Politician Would Like New York Trees to Have Their Own Email Addresses

It ’s virtually unimaginable to get by in today ’s mod universe without digital communication . Perhaps that ’s why a New York City politician has a plan to give 200 tree around the city their own electronic mail computer address .

The musical theme belong to to Mark Levine , an Upper West Side Councilmember . In aninterview with Gothamist , he explained that“NYC is a tough piazza to be a tree , ” add that “ giving each Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree a unique e - mail address … makes it really loose to cover job . ”

It ’s not actually as unhinged an idea as it sounds . It’sbeen happen in Melbourne since 2013 , where it ’s proven oddly successful . Levine forecast the approach can help improve the populace ’s relationship with tree , as well as providing a substance for reporting issues , such as blight or unsafe - looking branch that await as though they may fall ..

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As for which trees would get the email addresses ? Levine suggest that they ’d be chosen on the basis of several factors , including age , height , width and historic interest . The lucky one — and they would be lucky , because there are a lot of trees in NYC — would then have their email speech signposted , either directly on them or at least nearby .

If the results were anything like in Melbourne , public response would be … strong . There , suchdelightful digital messages as thishave been pen to our wooden Quaker :

To : Algerian Oak , Tree ID 1032705

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26 February 2025

Dear Algerian oak ,

Thank you for giving us O .

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give thanks you for being so pretty .

I do n’t know where I ’d be without you to extract my carbon dioxide . ( I would probably be in heaven ) Stay impregnable , fend marvellous amongst the crowd .

Levine currently has a draft bank note in place for the scheme . It stay to be seen if it will take root .

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