Bees removed from Manhattan tree

Published May 27, 2014 9:53am ET



NEW YORK (AP) — A swarm of bees atop a tree on Manhattan’s Upper West Side has been safely removed.

They occupied a tree at West 72nd Street near Amsterdam Avenue.

They were captured Monday by the NYPD’s beekeeper Anthony Planakis.

Last week, Planakis removed nearly 18,000 bees from a bus stop in Brooklyn.