While walking down the street in their Queens neighborhood, one New Yorker saw something upsetting.
“Someone had the bright idea to pour concrete onto the tree,” they shared on their neighborhood subreddit. “There was a huge hole where rats would go in and out but I don’t think this is the right way to go about this.”
The photos they shared did, indeed, show a tree whose roots had been completely encased in concrete — with the exception of a large hole tunneled into the area.
Commenters quickly chimed in, frustrated at the maltreatment of the tree. “So depressing,” one person lamented…