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Nosy Neighbor: I’ve seen stickers that say ‘a new tree is coming’…
S. wrote: “I’ve noticed that there are new white rectangles painted on the sidewalks along Chambers Street (sporadically between Broadway and West Broadway, at least). Some have little stickers that say ‘a new tree is coming.’ Do you know what’s happening? As someone who lives on Chambers, this would be great!”
It turns out the Parks Department is surveying tree planting locations around the city to prepare for planting and to determine the appropriate species. The department’s forestry staff expects to plant these trees by 2026.
This is certainly welcome news. And not easy to do in a neighborhood of hollow sidewalks. (Our building is trying to replace its own street trees that were removed when the street was redone — it is so expensive!)
The Parks Department has a new program called Vital Parks, where you can see how a neighborhood compares to another across all sorts of open space measures, including street trees. Citywide, 42 percent of residents live on a block with street trees. In Community District 1, only 23 percent of us have street trees on our block.
And for a bigger perspective: the Parks Department maintains more than 600,000 street trees across the city.
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Love this; can neighbors contribute to the planting of a street tree on particular blocks (to accelerate a specific project)?
Yes, you can request tree plantings:
https://www.nycgovparks.org/services/forestry/request/submit
I requested trees for the vacant tree spots along the Canal Street Post office. Months later, those little flags appeared in the spots. Now the flags are gone though…I hope the trees will still be planted. Maybe it’s time to request again.
Map of scheduled and completed tree plantings:
https://www.nycgovparks.org/trees/street-tree-planting/locations
Oddly, I put in the Post Office address (350 Canal Street) and zoomed in. The map shows 3 green dots, which supposedly indicate trees were already planted there on Church Street alongside the post office. Unless that is very old data, that’s incorrect. (Or were trees just planted there this week?) Last time I walked by there, a week ago, there were no trees.
Update: I just realized I could click the dots to get more info.
Indeed it says trees were just planted there. If anyone walks by the post office, please confirm!
“A street tree was planted at this site on 5/9/2025.
Closest address: 333 CHURCH STREET in Zip Code 10013
Community Board: Manhattan-01
City Council District: CD01”
Thanks for this. I was curious, because they installed tree pits on my block’s sidewalk at the same time, but a few weeks later, only one has a tree. I have to wait until late June for the second one. Odd, since they are like 20 feet apart, but hey, a tree is a tree whenever it shows up.
Yes, more green is always appreciated! Tribeca has very few trees, apparently mainly due to the prevalence of hollow sidewalks with building vaults underneath.
Can the city provide large plantar boxes for those areas that have hollow sidewalks or do the buildings have to pay for them if requested?
I don’t think the city does street trees in planters. My building is paying for ours.
Can you give us some sense of how much it costs?