New York City’s urban forest is spread across sidewalks, playgrounds and landscaped parkland. The NYC Tree Map brings those trees into one public directory, allowing residents to locate individual trees, identify their species and see information about their ecological benefits and care. The map also lets users record stewardship activities and report tree conditions to NYC Parks. 9
Launched by NYC Parks as a new, integrated map, it built on the department’s earlier Street Tree Map. The project connects directly to Parks’ forestry database, making tree inspections and scheduled or completed maintenance work visible to the public. 9 Residents can also use the map to check recent tree-maintenance information in their neighborhood. 3
The inventory behind the map combines street-tree data with a first-ever survey of trees on landscaped city parkland. From 2016 to 2018, Parks staff and volunteers surveyed 7,582 acres of non-forest parkland, recording trees’ locations, sizes, conditions and species. 9 Separately, staff and volunteers mapped 666,134 street trees across 131,488 blocks, walking more than 11,000 miles; Parks uses that data to manage care requests and inform planting. 11
NYC Parks says it actively cares for more than 800,000 mapped trees: about 650,000 street trees and more than 150,000 in parks. 9 The map’s purpose is practical as well as educational: it gives residents a way to learn about individual trees and their benefits, while making forestry information and opportunities for public stewardship easier to access. 289