The Big Apple gets a tiny forest: 1,000 native plants coming to New York

City’s first pocket forest, aimed at increasing biodiversity, will spring up in April on 2,700 sq ft of Manhattan’s Roosevelt Island

A tiny forest filled with more than 1,000 native plants will spring up in New York City come April on a 2,700 sq ft plot of land on the southern tip of Manhattan’s Roosevelt Island.

It will be the city’s first pocket forest, and supporters say it will bring both the beauty of increased biodiversity and tangible benefits to residents navigating increasingly extreme weather.