BROOKLYN COLLEGE–Brooklyn College (BC) will begin removing the East Quad elm trees to make way for new ones as part of a series of capital projects focused on renovations and improvements.
The BC community was made aware of the upcoming construction from USG president Cyle Paul, who expressed that the change was “a tough goodbye, but necessary,” in an email sent to the BC community on Nov. 10.
Removing the trees is a part of BC’s East Quad Renovation project.
The project specifies that the current elm species, the Siberian elms, will be replaced with American elms, which have longer lifespans and are more resistant to diseases and rising summer temperatures.
According to the project, the trees date back to the 1930s, when BC was first founded. BC administration shared that a team of tree care experts, urban arborists, took inventory of the BS trees as part of scoping for the renovation project. BC administration told The Vanguard, “That inventory recommended removal of the large elms because they were past their lifespan and showed signs of significant wear and tear.”
