Every street tree in New York

897,573

That's how many trees the city has on its sidewalks, and every dot here is one of them. Trees go where streets go, so you can pick out the street grid from the trees alone.

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The usual suspects

There are hundreds of kinds, but ten of them make up about 49% of the total. Hover overTap one to see where it grows.

Sorted

London planes win easily, with 97,275. They put up with pollution, road salt and packed soil better than most trees, which is why you see them everywhere. The NYC Parks logo is one of their leaves.

Each little dot stands for a few trees.

Big ones

16,688 trees have trunks more than three feet across. That's fewer than 2% of the total, but a tree that size throws a lot more shade than a young one.

New since 2015

2015

0 trees planted since 2015 that are still alive, showing up in the year they went in.

Stumps

47,476 of them. Each red dot is a spot where a tree used to be.

Your block

Go find your street. A lot of the tree beds around these trees are bare dirt, and that's what Mulch is working on: filling them with native plants, one bed at a time.

The sparkles are trees neighbors have claimed. Tap any tree on the map to claim one, give it a name, and keep an eye on it.

Join Mulch · How to plant a tree bed

Data from NYC Parks' tree inventory on NYC Open Data. The old tree map is archived here.