This massive weeping beech tree was planted in 1847 and survived until 1998. It is one of only two trees that have ever been given NYC landmark designation!

Prospect Park’s Camperdown Elm was donated to the Brooklyn Parks Commission in 1872 by Brooklyn florist A.G. Burgess. By the mid-1960s the treewas in bad shape. Following a campaign to save the Camperdown Elm spurred by a poem written by Marianne Moore, the tree was resurrect.

The only deliberate straight line in the park, the Mall contains a quadruple row of American Elm trees. It is one of the few remaining stands of the trees in North America (following the devastating effects of Dutch Elm Disease in the second half of the 20th century).

Standing in this spot for more than 200 years, the large tulip tree grew to 165 feet tall with a 20 foot circumference. A popular location for outings and picnics for the local community, the dying tree was felled by a storm in the 1930s.

Once called "Pear Tree Corner,' the northeast corner of Third Avenue and 13th Street was home to a pear tree supposedly planted here in 1647 by Peter Stuyvesant.

Not a permanent, living tree, but an annually changing one, the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center is perhaps NYC's most well known and certainly most visited tree.

Alexander Hamilton had 13 sweet gum trees planted in honor of the 13 original states outside of his home, Hamilton Grange (seen here). Following the home's most recent move to St. Nicholas Park, a new grove of 13 trees were planted.

According to a neighborhood legend, Robert E. Lee, while stationed at Fort Hamilton in the 1840s, planted a Norway maple in the churchyard at St. John's Episcopal Church.

It is believed that most of the gardens and large trees that surround the John Bowne House date to the 1800s when Parsons Nursery proprietor Samuel Parsons married into the Bowne family and lived in the home.

Check out the spindly tree that is growing between the two halves of the Bronx's Split Rock.

Some NYC trees are art pieces, not actual flora. Here "Group of Four Trees" is a public art piece by artist Jean Dubuffet. The black and white sculpture stands in the plaza in front of the Chase Manhattan Bank.

This long-gone oak tree was said to be the largest of its kind east of the Rocky Mountains. During the Revolutionary War, a British spy was supposedly hanged from one of its branches.

The dawn redwood tree that stands just out of the frame of this photograph is over one hundred feet tall.

This tree stands between the split rock that marks the burial site of Matinecoc Indians. Originally interred at a cemetery near North Boulevard, the burials were removed to this churchyard prior to road construction.

The "Tree of Hope" wishing tree was originally located in front of the Lafayette Theater on 7th Ave and 132nd Street. In the 1920s and 1930s, 7th Avenue was commonly called the "Boulevard of Dreams" by Harlem residents, as it was lined with prominent performance venues. Reportedly, before performances, actors, musicians and the like would touch the branches and bark of this tree for good luck on stage. The tree was a symbol of promise for Harlem.