Cher, a 25-foot weeping willow tree, has lived in Manhattan since the 1970s. She makes her home in the La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez community garden, in the East Village.
Earlier this year, she started showing signs of advanced old age—crumbling wood; fungus under her bark.
She was even dropping the occasional branch. So the Parks Department made a decision: Cher would have to come down.When a beloved community member gets that kind of diagnosis, it’s best to pay your respects. And so this past Sunday, July 9th, Cher’s friends and neighbors gathered beneath her gracefully arcing branches for a tree wake.
Community garden to mourn beloved weeping willow at Sunday wake: https://t.co/7MMyDXzziN pic.twitter.com/rK81JF1lM1
— DNAinfo New York (@DNAinfoNY)
Cher—which stands in the southwest corner of the park, by Avenue C…
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