Heed warning: A tree killer is on the loose in southeast Queens. Three trees were found murdered on Hillside Avenue in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. The Queens Coalition for Parks and Green Spaces is rightly sickened by this atrocity which has robbed the block of it's right to breathe fresh oxygen provided by these trees. They never did anyone any harm.  

"There is no excuse for the execution of these trees … Pictures taken clearly show that the trees were cut  about 80% and the culprits hoped that is would be blamed on Irene. I am sickened  by some self serving person would have the gall to intentially harm street trees while we are all working to plant and save them. We have also heard of similar problems in Flushing. This has got to and will stop with help from the neighborhood."