A tree grows in Bay Ridge with the help of P.S. 185
The tiny sapling looked more like a Charlie Brown Christmas tree than a majestic sycamore when State Senator Marty Golden and students at P.S. 185 lowered its root ball into the ground.
But, said Golden, as he joined students, parents and staff at the Ridge Boulevard and 87th Street school to celebrate Arbor Day on Friday, April 27, within a few years that small tree would be as large as those already shading the schoolyard, and students could look at it and remember that they had helped to plant it.
This is extremely important, Golden told the youngsters. it was one person who stood up and said we have to do something about trees, and helped to create what we have today called Arbor Day. That one person could be one of you.