A walking path in a Queens park leads to several clearings that shouldn’t exist, with some residents accused of illegally chopping down trees on the city-owned land — and gaining waterfront views from their backyard in the process.
The trail through Powell’s Cove Park in the College Point neighborhood offers lush foliage along the shore line. Or at least it does until clearings that offer stunning views of the Whitestone Bridge have started to pop up.
“This should not be like this. This should be very wooded,” said Kathryn Cervino, of the Coastal Preservation Network…