WEST VILLAGE — The Hudson River Park is getting 50 new trees from an art installation at the Westbeth housing complex.
The trees were part of an installation by the Time Shrine Foundation and photographer Anne de Barbuccia. They were planted this fall along the elevated rail along Washington Street outside Westbeth.
The "One — One Planet One Future" exhibition closed in November and the Time Shrine Foundation contacted the Friends of Hudson River Park to try to find the trees a new home.
The Friends group, which advocates and raises the funds for the park, paid for a team of expert horticulturalists to identify which trees were healthy enough to survive transplanting and then brought them to the park one by one using a truck and a crane sling.
The trees were kept at a nursery on Pier 40 until they were ready to be replanted, a spokesman for the Friends of Hudson River Park said.
They're now being replanted in the Habitat Garden in Chelsea and the TriBeCa and Greenwich Village sections of the park.