Trees New York is celebrating our 50th anniversary! As we celebrate this historic milestone, we recommit ourselves to expanding the city’s tree canopy through planting and stewardship, ensuring that future generations inherit a New York City with a healthy and resilient urban forest.
Volunteering with Trees New York is an excellent opportunity for your company to increase visibility, reach a new market, and showcase your #corporatesocialresponsibility! We will help you organize your event and assist with outreach. Email info@treesny.org for available dates and more info! #CSR
We're excited to highlight #MattLopezJensen's new project, New York City Street Tree Tarot ,a 78-card tarot deck for reflection, education, and divination accompanied by a book of texts and keywords to help readers interpret each scene. Learn more on his Kickstarter page: tinyurl.com/kpkstpbr
Join Trees New York for a winter tree id workshop on Thursday, 2/26 from 6 - 8 pm via Zoom! Learn how to identify trees in the winter by looking at the tree's twigs, buds and bark. Registered participants will receive a copy of the recording and materials after the workshop. tinyurl.com/hvknuurs
In case you missed it, we released our 2025 Year in Review. Please read about the programs you help support! tinyurl.com/2s4rmnxn
This Valentine’s Day, give a gift that grows! ❤️🌳 Donate to Trees New York in someone’s honor and send a personalized e-Card letting them know you’re helping plant & care for NYC’s street trees—in schools, parks, and beyond. Your support keeps our city green! Donate today: tinyurl.com/mwv579uj
#HackberryTrees have raised bumps and/or ridges on the bark, even when young. Viewed from the side, the bumps/ridges have multiple layers. Try some winter tree identification - go outside this weekend and see if you can locate one among the many wonders found in our #urbanforest!
We continue to train over 300 #CitizenPruners per year! With their help, we #pruned 500 #streettrees in 2025 and partnered with several community-based organizations to train volunteers. Check out your 2025 Year in Review for more info on the programs you help support! tinyurl.com/2s4rmnxn
JOIN US TONIGHT, 1/29, from 6-7:30pm for ‘Meet the Author’ with Stanley Greenberg. In his book, “Olmsted Trees”, he photographs historic trees from Frederick Law Olmsted’s parks nationwide, connecting them to the landscape designer’s original visions! tinyurl.com/4xxybbh2
Most trees have smooth bark when young. Pictured here, #Burroak has very distinctive, raised ridges on the bark of young #trees. If you are looking to try some winter #tree identification, go outside this weekend and see if you can locate one among the many wonders found throughout our #urbanforest!
Join us on Thursday, 1/29, from 6-7:30 pm on Zoom for ‘Meet the Author’ with Stanley Greenberg. In his book, “Olmsted Trees”, Greenberg photographs historic trees from Frederick Law Olmsted’s parks nationwide, connecting them to the landscape designer’s original visions. tinyurl.com/4xxybbh2
#Mulchfest has begun! You can take your Christmas #tree to be chipped and turned into #mulch for our city’s #greenspaces. Want Christmas tree mulch for your local #streettrees? You can also get that at a chipping site this weekend on Mulchfest. For more info and locations: tinyurl.com/2s4xw7r5
With funding from the #CityParksFoundation #GreenFund, we planted and cared for #trees in Red Hook, Brooklyn - an area prone to flooding. These trees will provide shade and absorb excess stormwater. A BIG thank you for your years of support!
Despite the rain, we were out planting this #tree in the West Village with 8 more set to go in the ground in Red Hook before we close out the year!
Congratulations to our first cohort of Urban Forest Fellows - Julien, Mariya, and Jose! They helped us expand our programming, resulting in thousands of #stewardedtrees, as they trained 16 Young Urban Forester Interns who helped us care for 399 #trees we planted with our #TreesForNYCHA project.
Outdoor learning is turning NYC students into urban environmental champions! Our youth programs have inspired young NY'ers for nearly 20 years, and empowered them to steward hundreds of trees in 2025! Support our mission—every donation helps! 🙌 Thank you! tinyurl.com/mubb84uy
A BIG thank you and shout out to the #CitizenPruners who came out to #prunetrees on Nostrand Avenue that were blocking the sidewalk last Saturday! #PlantTrees #PreserveTrees #ProtectTrees
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Community Field Manager and #CitizenPruner Nina Browne has art show – Notice/Know/Kin: A Human/Tree Biography - at BBG’s Conservatory Gallery now thru 3/15/26. Also a woodworker, her art includes many #tree and plant-themed pieces.
A #scarletoak, #Quercuscoccinea, showing how it got its common name in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Great to see these as #streettrees - thank you @nycgovparks.bsky.social!
#Trees New York is committed to expanding our city’s #canopy through #treeplanting and #stewardship, but we need your help! Please donate and help us grow our efforts in 2026. Click to donate! tinyurl.com/363np4eu
What an amazing accomplishment! This fall, we worked with over 20 schools, 2000 students, and cared for 110 #trees with the help of students.
Did you explore the #urbanforest this weekend? If so, you likely noticed that some #trees don’t drop their leaves in the fall but keep most of them on the tree through the winter, like this #swampwhiteoak. This is called marcescence, and why some #tree species do it is unknown!
We are so grateful to our #CitizenPruners and volunteers who help us maintain and expand our #urbanforest. Your hard work are vital to our shared mission and success. Thank you for donating your valuable time to #Trees New York and supporting the work we do together for NYC's urban forest!
We're so grateful to our generous donors and sponsors for funding our work to train #CitizenPruners and volunteers who help us #plant, #steward, and #prune thousands of #trees each year. Thank you for investing in our shared mission to plant, preserve, and protect NYC's #urbanforest!
We are so grateful to our TreesNY educators and the teachers at the schools we work with, who recognize the value of youth environmental education, as well as the students and future environmental leaders who help us steward hundreds of #trees every year. We thank you all so much for your support!
Enjoy the #urbanforest this weekend! #Ginkgotrees (#Ginkgobiloba) are a historic native of NY State although their modern native range stretches across Asia. Found as #streettrees in NYC, they feature a unique #whorledleafing arrangement, and in November, their #leaves are likely already yellow!
#Plantingtrees in the West Village is the perfect way to spend a fall day! Last week, we #planted four #streettrees! We were joined by #CitizenPruners, and they learned how a #streettree gets planted.
Enjoy the #urbanforest this weekend! #GreenAsh is one of the few #trees with compound leaves that you can find in NYC. They have been the recent target of the Emerald Ash Borer, a beetle that creates markings underneath the bark in the larval stage and leaves exit holes as it emerges as an adult.
Our #TreesforNYHCHA project has been a huge success! As we continue putting forth #treestewardship initiatives to maintain this historic investment, we are still prioritizing #wateringtrees to ensure they survive and thrive through ongoing dry weather conditions.
Congratulations to the volunteers who recently joined our cohort of #CitizenPruners, seen here #pruningtrees during their field outing in Brooklyn as part of their training. We are so grateful to them and the 300+ volunteers that signed up this year for the #CitizenPruner course!
