The Times writes about a Mulberry tree on Kane Street that is more than just a 40 year old piece of wood — it’s a reflection of how much Cobble Hill has changed:
NY Times: A Sapling Grows…: It may have been a sapling, but it looked like a stick. Diane Dillon, for one, was fairly skeptical that the branch her elderly neighbor stuck in the ground in front of his Cobble Hill brownstone one day in the late 1960s — a twig, no thicker than her finger — would ever amount to much. She was pretty sure the wind would just blow it away.
But the neighbor — Ms. Dillon remembers him only as Mr. Greiner — must have had a feeling about that stick. As the neighborhood around it was transformed, from a rough-edged enclave of immigrants to one of the most sought-after ZIP codes in the city, with the prices of houses climbing from the low five digits in the 1960s to millions today, the twig grew as well.
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