Street tree planting – Do it yourself!

I know this has been posted a hundred times…but maybe someone can help me. I know you can call the city and have them come plant a tree or 2 on your street. However, I also read numerour people were able to “pick out trees and plant them youself”. How is this done? Is this what the “TREE PLANTING PERMIT APPLICATION” Will allow you to do?:

http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_permits_and_applications/images_and_pdfs/NYC-Parks-Dept.-Street-Tree-Planting-Permit-and-Guidelines.pdf

Here is a post from “RAY” who was able to do what I want to do…but he does not explain how he did this:

I just had a couple of trees planted in my block in Park Slope. The Parks Dept allowed me to pick from some that they selected. I was given two options, pay for the trees and have it done right away (by them) or wait and have it done for free. I chose to pay for them and they planted them within a week. This was in the late fall, I don’t know if they would be as quick in the spring. Any other time is just not appropiate to plant.

Posted by: Ray at February 18, 2008 12:10 PM

By nybk01 | 05/20/2008 5:33 PM