- Number of trees in New York
City: 5.2 million
- Number of trees on New York
City streets: 592,130
- Acres
of urban tree canopy: 44,509 acres
- Percent
of land covered in trees: 24%
- Replacement
value of total tree population: $5.2 billion
- Total
annual benefits from street trees: $122 million ($209 per
tree)
- Annual
energy cost reduction: $28 million
- $50
per tree
- $3.41 per New York City
resident
- For
every $1 invested, New York
street trees return $5.60 in
benefits
- Annual
pollution removal: 2,202 tons
- Annual carbon storage: 1.35
million tons
- Annual
stormwater capture: 890 million gallons
- Number of tree species: 168
- Standing
trunk to trunk, New York City
street trees would form a line 118 miles long–the
distance from Manhattan to Hartford.
- Spaced 25 feet apart, New York
City street trees would stretch more than 2,800 miles–all the way to Las
Vegas.
- A
large, healthy tree removes almost 70 times more air pollution each year than
a small or newly planted tree.
- New
York City’s
most common street trees: The London planetree, and the Norway
maple
- New
York City’s
most common trees: Tree of Heaven, black cherry,
sweetgum
- One
of New York City’s most uncommon tree: Two
camperdown elms are located in Prospect Park and Green Wood
Cemetery.
- One
of New York
City’s tallest tree: 133.8
feet
- The “Alley Pond Giant,” a
tuliptree located in Alley Pond Park, Queens
- One
of New York
City’s widest tree: 144
inches
- The
American hornbeam, located in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park
Source: New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, United
States Forest Service
Find more information on how trees benefit our City
by consulting the New York City Municipal Forest Resource
Analysis report, the United
States Department of Agriculture's Assessing Urban Forest Effects and
Values report, and the Talking Trees: An
Urban Forestry Toolkit for Local Governments.