Q: What do the Ninth Avenue Cycle Track, Michael Bloomberg, Clarence the Purple Traffic Calming Wizard and Tyra Banks have in common? A: A new street tree. What else? The Streetfilms crew stumbled upon the media scrum for last week&#8217;s Bloomberg-Banks photo op and caught this tree planting in action, just where the Wizard had…

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