NYC Parks has launched a first-of-its-kind living tree map, aptly called the NYC Tree Map. The map showcases each individually managed city tree and includes newly mapped, in-park trees that have unique IDs, species information, and maintenance status.
Building on Parks’ previously launched Street Tree Map, this empowers New Yorkers to interact digitally with all the landscaped park and street trees in real time. It will allow you to find the specific location of each park and street tree in the city; see tree species and how each tree contributes to a healthier, more resilient city; record their stewardship activity; report tree conditions directly to Parks staff; and for the first time ever, see the results of any completed inspections and recent tree work.
“Our New York City trees provide countless benefits to the city and residents – they provide the air we breathe, help to keep temperatures down, and manage flood waters,” said Deputy Mayor for Operations Meera Joshi. “The NYC Tree Map highlights the value of these natural resources and allows New Yorkers to report trees in need of care.”
To map City trees across the five boroughs, Parks embarked on its 2016-2018 Park Tree Inventory Project, the first-ever effort to enumerate trees growing on New York City parkland. Surveying 7,582 acres of landscaped parks (non-forest parkland), including all small parks and playgrounds, historic houses, community gardens, neighborhood, community, and flagship parks, Parks staff and volunteers measured the precise location, size, condition, and species of non-forest trees growing in landscaped parks.
Here are some interesting statistics.
NYC Tree Map Info at a Glance:
Top 3 Landscaped Park Tree Species: London planetree (18,161 trees / 11.6% of total trees), Pin Oak (15,002 trees / 9.6% of total trees), Honey Locust variety (6,929 trees / 4.4% of total trees)
NYC Parks with the Most Landscaped Park Trees: Flushing Meadows Corona Park (8,698 trees), Prospect Park (3,995 trees)
Borough by Borough Landscaped Park Trees: Queens (40,617), Manhattan (39,273) Bronx (33,338), Brooklyn (32,580), Staten Island (10,817)
Number of Landscaped Tree Varieties: 570 different types of trees on streets and in parks
NYC Parks actively cares for more than 800,000 mapped trees — 650,000 street trees and more than 150,000 trees in parks — across the city. Parks recently celebrated a milestone tree planting season with more than 13,000 trees planted citywide in fiscal year 2022, more than planted in the past five fiscal years. Parks is also furthering its commitment to increasing equitable planting and targeting plantings in areas that need trees most with a $112 million allocation from the Adams administration.
