Mourning a Fatally Girdled Tree as It Twists in the Wind.

Provides information on the girdling of a pear tree at West Village in New York City, New York, which was stripped of its bark. Comments from Henry J. Stern, the parks commissioner; How Susannah Kaufman, an executive producer at Hudson River Pictures, who is living behind the tree, discovered the incident; Effort made by the neighborhood for the tree.