Artists and artisans come together at the Faculty of Fine Art to make masks and floats for the Pohela Boishakh procession
"This is a grove of Atlantic Cedars... victims of saltwater inundation from rising seas due to climate change," said Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
"They're called, 'Ghost Forests,' so I wanted to bring a ghost forest to raise awareness about this phenomenon," she added, noting that more than 50% of Atlantic Cedars on the US Eastern Seaboard have been lost.
The trees, some of them 80 years old, are from the Atlantic Pine Barrens of New Jersey, which is about 100 miles (160 km) from downtown Manhattan.
The exhibit in Madison Square Park, in the shadow of the Empire State Building, will be displayed until Nov 14.