A Question For Those Living In,

or visiting New York,

 well two questions really, firstly how many tress under the jurisdiction of NYC Parks, this includes trees planted along sidewalks or other public rights-of-way, are there in New York?

 and secondly how many different species are growing in these areas?

 well it is easy if you have this interactive online map,

 first mapped by volunteers in 2015 and now updated daily by the NYC Parks forestry team, “On the map, trees are represented by circles. The size of the circle represents the diameter of the tree, and the color of the circle reflects its species. You are welcome to browse our entire inventory of trees, or to select an individual tree for more information.” and according to the map the answer to the questions are, 678,302 mapped trees comprising of 265 species, and there was me thinking New York, except for Central Park was a concrete jungle!