JP Morgan Chase Donates $1 Million to Central Park
Ever since the August 18th storm swept through Manhattan, destroying a slew of trees in Riverside Park and an estimated 508 trees in Central Park, the Parks Department has been working hard to clean up and restore our beloved parks. Both parks have actively sought donations to help continue the ongoing cleanup and restoration effort, which includes removing the trees in the form of wood chips (adding up to 90 tons for Central Park alone). Well, now one park is getting some big help… yesterday, the New York Times reports that JP Morgan Chase is donating $1 million to the Central Park Conservancy to replace trees in the park. At the Great Hill on Tuesday morning, several VIPs including Doug Blonsky (president of the Central Park Conservancy), Mayor Bloomberg, Adrian Benepe (the parks commissioner),and Jamie Dimon (the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase) planted a 12-foot-tall sapling to kick off the restoration process. The donation, along with many other CPC donations, will be used in the next several months to perform a comprehensive landscape restoration mainly on the severely damaged areas in the northern section of the park.
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[...] Park Conservancy underwent a massive fundraising effort, receiving many substantial donations (including a $1 million contribution from JP Morgan Chase) to help restore the landscape of the park. Now that the cleanup of the 508 destroyed trees is [...]