‘Odd, eerie and haunting’: behind Maya Lin’s Manhattan ghost forest

The famed artist and architect draws attention to climate change’s biodiversity loss with a forest of dying Atlantic cedars in New YorkIn Manhattan’s bustling Flatiron District, 49 coastal Atlantic cedars – each around 40ft tall, leafless branches grasping at the sky – tower over Madison Square Park’s usually flat, grassy plain. The spectral forest, a new installation by the artist and architect Maya Lin, looms like a jarring holdout from winter – barren, save