I think it was a pin oak that fell here and crushed this fence. I asked a park worker, and he said the tree crew was in and out in two hours, gettingthis oak and the giant elm pictured below, as well as the large hanging elm branch at 9th Street and Avenue B, and the locust at the central entrance on 7th street.

The elm in the central grove was hollow.

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