God Bless, Move Forward!
The trees will make beautiful stumps in a few decades and the wood can be used for human purposes.
Trees have a nasty tenancy to damage concrete of which NYC has an abundance as the roots grow. But that just creates more jobs for people tearing up the sidewalk and re-doing it.
Concrete itself requires quite a large input of energy which will increase the 'carbon footprint'. That would be a negative if CO2 had anything to do with 'global warming', but the whole 'man-made global climate change' thing is a laughable hoax promulgated by, among others, the multinational energy companies themselves who's board-members thought up the scheme decades ago in order to consolidate, magnify, and solidify the power they'd amassed during the industrial revolution.
Omg, the other day I was thinking about how the tress also destroyes the concrete, and they recently fixed this block because of it. But I never thought of the fact that the concrete requires a large input of energy that increases the carbon dioxide. I will take some pictures of some of the things I talked about here.