trees for cars is no longer available , and grand is still homeless , mashable reported .
in august 2013 mcconlogue offered grand , the homeless man he saw every day on his walk to work in new york city , a half since that moment led to grand and his mentor , patrick mcconlogue , becoming media sensations .
but trees for cars is no longer that realized he could go through ' $ 100 in a few days ' and instead jumped at the opportunity to learn something new .