Million Tree project comes to Dogtown

Living for more than five decades in an old city housing project nicknamed Dogtown, Clyde Fulford has seen toxic chemicals seep from his backyard and waves of violence claim the lives of youths. Rachel Uranga in the Daily News.

But on a sunny Saturday afternoon, the man known by many Dogtown residents as "The Black Godfather" picked up a shovel and participated in something unlike he ever saw there before: dozens of neighbors planting hundreds of trees.