Free Tree Giveaway Encourages Residents to 'Green' Greenpoint

GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN — If you live in Greenpoint (within the 11222 zip code), have yard space available and want to help spruce up the neighborhood, then you're invited to register and pickup a free tree through Greening Greenpoint.

Registration for your free tree closes Monday, Oct. 17, and the form is available here.

Tree pickup is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 20, at PS 110, located at 124 Monitor St., from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Trees will be in two gallon containers and weigh approximately five pounds, according to organizers.

The available tree species are:

• Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
• Please choose another tree species
• Upright English Oak (Quercus robur 'fastigiata')
• River Birch (Betula nigra)
• Japanese Stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia)
• Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum)

Launched in the Fall of 2015 with help from the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund, Greening Greenpoint is a three-year project aimed at developing a local urban forestry plan for the neighborhood and training residents to "increase tree canopy cover and promote healthy, long-lived trees to increase the environmental benefits that trees offer."

Lead image courtesy of Drew Folta/Flickr.