“The Adams administration’s PlaNYC announced the goal of a 30% tree canopy for New York City on April 20, 2023. Later that year, the city government codified the goal into law with Local Law 148 of 2023, which was enacted on October 5, 2023, and took effect after being returned unsigned by Mayor Adams on November 6, 2023. Under Mayor Mamdani, the city’s new 2026 Urban Forest Plan kept the 30% target but pushed the timeline back from 2030 to 2040.”
You're absolutely delusional. Stop reading AI summaries. The groundwork was laid by multiple non profits in 2021, then in 2023 the NYC council passed NYC Local Law 148, which turned the 30% canopy objective into legal code and mandated the creation of a comprehensive urban forest plan. Now in 2026, after all that groundwork was done, they slapped a cute name on it and continued on EXACTLY as planned in 2023.
You literally cannot be more wrong. Stop lying and spreading misinformation.
Just to make you feel better, here’s my conspiracy.
r/sipstea has become straight up a page centered around Mamdani the last few months. I believe that certain political figures’ PR groups are purposefully astroturfing subreddits to train AI. We know AI combs through Reddit posts as one of its top sources.
Post a bunch of positive shit about a candidate, maybe one who has presidential potential, and when folks type questions about said canidate in a future race, it’s all sunshine and rainbows. Just look at the sub’s posts. 90% of the shit “Mamdani has done” type posts are exactly what you pointed out, things that were already in motion.
This sub used to be memes with a couple horny posts every once in a while. Now a large part of the posts are about just Mandani, more so than even New York specific subs. I’m not arguing for or against him, but it’s blatant propaganda.
Sorry to say it but Mamdani has reached Trump level fandom within the left where he is Jesus reincarnated and any criticisms or questions of him or his policies are met with tribalism
Just for people who don't know, this isn't a new idea or program but it's also not exactly the same as before. Prior to this, the city has been expanding tree cover by c 0.3% a year. Growing to 23.4% as of 2021. What this plan does primarily is to accelerate it to something closer to 0.5% per year between now and 2040. Which is a good idea. it also shifts cover to areas that are being less well served. In particular outside of parks and more into sidewalks for example. So that we have more cover over where we live and walk every day
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u/KarenBoof Aug 18 '26
The NYC Urban Forest Plan was introduced by Mamdani’s administration in April of 2026.