Nassau County Exec Tom Suozzi and landscape architect Richard C. Arnedos put the finishing Earth Day touches on one of six trees planted on Stewart Avenue in Bethpage...
...but Suozzi was quick to give his Department of Public Works employees credit for doing the actual planting.
Newsday photos by Gwen Young
Newsday’s Community Watchdog readers may recognize the location of this tree planting by Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi.
It’s Stewart Avenue in Bethpage, by the B-7 commuter parking lot where the county and Town of Oyster Bay collaborated to get the dangerous sidewalks replaced.
County public works workers planted six Japanese tree lilacs, part of the 2008 planned plantings for this year that Suozzi said will cost nearly $1 million to spruce up roadways and county parks.
The trees are environmentally friendly and Suozzi said the county would get a $50 rebate per tree from the Long Island Power Authority because they’re “wire friendly” and grow only to about 25 feet. He mentioned that trees are one of the things that increase in value once it's planted.
Suozzi scooped some dirt onto one of the trees with a gold-painted shovel for the cameras, but rightfully gave credit for the work to his public works crew.
