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Tree planting efforts and Neighborhood Tree Planting Program
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The Parks Department has significantly increased its tree planting efforts, focusing on expanding the urban tree canopy to combat extreme heat and provide environmental benefits.
- In 2024, nearly 18,000 new trees were planted along streets and in landscaped areas of parks, the highest number since fiscal year 2016.
- Tree planting efforts have a special focus on neighborhoods with high heat vulnerability.
- The new Neighborhood Tree Planting Program was introduced as a strategic approach to plant more trees efficiently and equitably.
- The program aims to inspect and plant trees in every viable location over the next decade, prioritizing vulnerable neighborhoods.
Susan Donoghue
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As stewards of our city's natural resources, we work year round to keep the five boroughs diverse ecosystems healthy and thriving from our wild natural areas and forests to the urban tree canopy along our city streets.
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In the face of extreme heat, the environmental benefits of tree cover have never been have never been so Never been so evident.
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In 2024, we planted nearly 18,000 new trees along streets and in landscaped areas of parks, the most since fiscal year twenty sixteen and with a special focus on neighborhoods impacted by high heat vulnerability.
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To continue that momentum in a more efficient and strategic manner, we have unveiled the neighborhood tree planting program, a new planting strategy that will help us plant even more trees and further expand our focus on equity by prioritizing the most vulnerable neighborhoods.
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Over the next decade, through this new block planting strategy, baseline capital funds are in place for the agency to ensure that every viable and appropriate location for hosting a street tree gets inspected and planted along with other tree related streetscape improvements.