Description

One of New Haven's town jewels is the Audubon St pedestrian area with its concentration of Arts and Music schools/spaces. The trees on this street are almost uniformly DEAD. This includes 7 GIGANTIC MAPLE TREES, at least two of which are DEAD from top to bottom, and the others are in truly bad shape with major branches completely dead. This is DANGEROUS, especially for the kids and community members walking to and from their classes, afternoon programs etc. Also customers of the various businesses, including Koffee? It is also UGLY, undermining what could be a beautiful public space where people want to hang out on a lovely day (like today) with their lunch on one of the outside tables (I saw a family of 4 today). Unfortunately, these people were having a picnic in a landscape that looks like a nuclear apocalypse.
I did not take any photos today but you can see part of the problem on this screen snap from google maps. The maple trees in particular are in way worse shape than when the google photos were taken.