Sept. 11 Memorial Trees Stolen in Bronx; Gift of Monaco Prince
Thieves have looted a grove of saplings that Monaco’s ruler donated to honor Sept. 11 victims, according to a park advocate.
The 15 young black birch trees were among more than 3,000 memorial trees that Monaco’s Prince Albert II gave to Ferry Point Park in the Bronx. Planting began last year.
“It’s a shame there are those who have such a complete lack of respect not just for the gift, but also for the beauty of nature,” Monaco’s consul general in New York, Maguy Maccario Doyle, said Wednesday.
The trees that were taken were in a special grove dedicated to victims from the nearby Throgs Neck area.
The saplings were stolen in January, said Dorothea Poggi, who heads Friends of Ferry Point Park, a volunteer group that works to preserve and improve the park. Poggi replanted five of the trees after they were uprooted and left nearby last year.
“I feel sorry for anybody that would do something like this,” she said.
Ferry Point Golf Course Finally Approved To Go From Dream To Reality
It was supposed to be a world-class golf course, designed by Jack Nicklaus, and best of all, it would cost the city next to nothing. Developers would pay for it all and recoup the cost of the city-owned course from greens fees.
But nearly 10 years and $15 million later, the Ferry Point golf course in the Bronx is still a duffer’s dream waiting to happen. And on Friday, for the first time, the city announced that it — not a private developer — would pay the unknown millions needed to complete the project.
The Parks and Recreation Department put out requests on Friday for proposal seeking a developer to build the course, at city expense, and another to operate it.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the city comptroller, William C. Thompson, announced the plans in a joint news release that heavily emphasized the bid for contractors, but made only glancing reference — one subordinate clause — to the fact that the city will pay for the project.
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