Sarah Charlop-Powers was comparing New York City’s forests to its subways. The city has more than 840 miles of tracks for one. It has 10,542 acres of the other, about half as much as the Congaree Swamp in South Carolina, a small national park with an old-growth forest and, according to the website I Love National Parks, “more bugs than you can imagine.”
A plan for New York city’s forests. Yes, forests
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