The city’s announcement came just weeks before the trees’ annual bloom, which lines the street with bright pink flowers before giving way to green summer foliage. The trees, though admired every year by residents of the tiny side street, have received a great deal of attention this year after the city notified the neighborhood in April via letters taped to residents’ doors that due to the street’s selection for paving this year, the trees would be cut down. Seven Kwanzan cherry trees along Northampton’s Warfield Place, as well as three neighboring smaller trees, were ordained as Zen Buddhist priests on the morning of Monday, July 12th. The Mayor and DPW Director won’t budge on plans to chop trees for repaving
