A tire was placed around a tree, or, it grew up and through it, along the Bronx River in East Tremont in a section of the river that the Bronx River Alliance began, in the 1970s, restoring the banks of the river with whatever materials thay had, which, in the Bronx, back then, there was, along with bricks, plenty of tires.
The banks, reinforced with used tires, still holds today, but the Alloance is now well-established with a great record of river restoration and funding, that people, at one time, couldn’t imagine.