# A Tree Grows In The Bronx

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tree-grows-in-the-bronx/343630>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 9, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tree-grows-in-the-bronx/343630 "2006-02-09T01:01:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tree-grows-in-the-bronx/343630/1 "2006-02-09T01:01:29Z")

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know…there are tons of trees in Pelham Bay Park and the Botanical Gardens. But all my years in the building supply industry and I’ve never seen anything like [this](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/389429p-330416c.html).

> [@Adam Lisberg](#):
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> A property-line dispute between a builder and a lifelong Bronx resident is in an architectural stalemate - with a live tree right in the middle of a cinder-block wall of a new house…The saga started last month when a Queens developer who had torn down the old house next door on St.Raymond Ave. in Westchester Square began putting up a three-story apartment building, filling the entire lot - and reaching the tree, which sits on the property line…“The plans do not call for a tree in the wall…We’re going to send somebody out to look at this.”

Hope ELF doesn’t get wind of this. Is there even such a thing as an anti-_urban_ sprawl movement?

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tree-grows-in-the-bronx/343630/2 "2006-02-09T02:15:17Z")

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In other news, apparently there’s a rose in Spanish Harlem.

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**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tree-grows-in-the-bronx/343630/3 "2006-02-09T02:38:36Z")

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> [@JohnBckWLD](#):
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> Is there even such a thing as an anti-_urban_ sprawl movement?

Yes. Fighting urban sprawl is a well-recognized sub-discipline of the sustainable development/civil society movement.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tree-grows-in-the-bronx/343630/4 "2006-02-09T03:24:30Z")

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> [@JohnBckWLD](#):
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> Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know…there are tons of trees in Pelham Bay Park and the Botanical Gardens. But all my years in the building supply industry and I’ve never seen anything like [this](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/389429p-330416c.html).

Can these guys build all the way to the lot line?

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**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tree-grows-in-the-bronx/343630/5 "2006-02-09T06:25:59Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> In other news, apparently there’s a rose in Spanish Harlem.

And the swallows have come back to Capistrano. Film at 11.