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.
I don't think I really even read the initial post. My bad.
Trees are nice and they make a more pleasant surrounding for most people. That in and of itself is adequate reason to try have them. One does not need a bunch of pseudo-scientific (at best) hype about 'carbon footprint' and general virtue signaling which is disgustingly obvious a phony.
It is better to just make good engineering decisions about how to use trees for what they are good for and try to minimize the negative aspects of them of which there are plenty. The disadvantages are even greater when trying to dense-pack the plebs into UN Agenda 21 'human habitats'.
The shade effect of trees is great. One can achieve that with awnings which capture rain-water and they can house solar panels (if/when economically feasible) as well. My current house has a lot of concrete and awnings over most of the property. That has it's advantages as well, and in my current location especially. I've got some modest sized trees in barrels (which makes me feel like I am torturing them), and one large shade tree which, sadly, I'm going to need to get rid of for certain development work. In another decade it really would be creating a genuine hazard to life and limb for both myself and my neighbors.
It is worth note that trees themselves are a significant detriment to smaller plants. They get big in order to maximize their gather of solar energy so they starve out everything below them, or try to. What most 'modern eductated' people fail to realize is that if you cut a tree, a ton of other plants below it start to grow like crazy. Very little solar energy ever touches bare ground in any circumstance. So-called 'clear cutting' does NOT leave a lifeless piece of ground for more than about a week (unless it is followed up by dosing with defoliants which is common and is, in my opinion, sort of a problem.) Logging tends to promote 'biodiversity' since it gives environments for 'fringe' plants and animals to live for a while until the forest grows back again.