A tree grows in ...uh, the Bronx. But hardly in ideal conditions

[dduane]

Somebody call Treebeard, because some people need their heads banged together.

A property-line dispute between a builder and a lifelong Bronx resident is in an architectural stalemate - with a live tree right in the middle of a cinder-block wall of a new house.

...The city building code doesn't actually prohibit anyone from building a wall with a tree in the middle of it, but live trees inside buildings require special construction, said Buildings Department spokeswoman Ilyse Fink.

"The plans do not call for a tree in the wall," Fink said. "We're going to send somebody out to look at this."

Tags: tree, wall, Bronx, New York, idiots