Similarly, I fear I already know the answer, but I live on Gold and Tillary… where can I get a tree? I’m thinking it’s going to be 20+ minute walk — so make it 30 when you’re carrying a tree — no matter how you slice it. But please tell me I’m wrong…
Ah, yes, the best way to celebrate the birth of the Saviour: Find something beautiful and kill it.
Ah, well, here are two options: 9th St. between 5th and 6th Aves has a bunch of both tall and short trees. Not sure what the prices are. Also, you might try contacting the Boy Scouts, who despite their hateful values system, apparently sell trees pretty cheap.
No, no, no, no, no. GRAND ARMY PLAZA GREENMARKET. They are truly “fresh cut”; the others are shipped down from Canada in, God, something like August in fridge trucks and that’s why they have a 48-hour lifespan in a heated living room. The vendor at GAP on Saturdays (closest to the Union St. intersection, first vendor on the left as you approach that way) has trees so fresh that they’re still flexible and springy on Epiphany and it breaks my heart to haul them off for compost. They’re not cheap but I’d rather have a shorter one that isn’t tinder.
And before the Tree-Rights folks get started, these babies are farmed like a crop, not slain in some virgin forest, and there is always a post-Christmas composting event listed on all the blogs. Must be the German in me, but I want my live tree and I want it to smell like a pine forest!
slopegirl – they’re the ones open only on saturday and sunday, right? i like them. kinda far hike for this chap though, after the third block the tree fan feel like a boulder
You might also check local churches… Ours (old first on 7th ave) puts the proceeds to charity which is nice answer to the Q: why am I spending all this money and killing a tree?
Similarly, I fear I already know the answer, but I live on Gold and Tillary… where can I get a tree? I’m thinking it’s going to be 20+ minute walk — so make it 30 when you’re carrying a tree — no matter how you slice it. But please tell me I’m wrong…
Ah, yes, the best way to celebrate the birth of the Saviour: Find something beautiful and kill it.
Ah, well, here are two options: 9th St. between 5th and 6th Aves has a bunch of both tall and short trees. Not sure what the prices are. Also, you might try contacting the Boy Scouts, who despite their hateful values system, apparently sell trees pretty cheap.
home depot has some of the freshest and least expensive trees….
Hi Brenda,
Do they deliver? Always a problem without a car..
No, no, no, no, no. GRAND ARMY PLAZA GREENMARKET. They are truly “fresh cut”; the others are shipped down from Canada in, God, something like August in fridge trucks and that’s why they have a 48-hour lifespan in a heated living room. The vendor at GAP on Saturdays (closest to the Union St. intersection, first vendor on the left as you approach that way) has trees so fresh that they’re still flexible and springy on Epiphany and it breaks my heart to haul them off for compost. They’re not cheap but I’d rather have a shorter one that isn’t tinder.
And before the Tree-Rights folks get started, these babies are farmed like a crop, not slain in some virgin forest, and there is always a post-Christmas composting event listed on all the blogs. Must be the German in me, but I want my live tree and I want it to smell like a pine forest!
I love seeing people on the subway bringing trees home.
Outside Key Food parking lot on 5th Ave.
slopegirl – they’re the ones open only on saturday and sunday, right? i like them. kinda far hike for this chap though, after the third block the tree fan feel like a boulder
You might also check local churches… Ours (old first on 7th ave) puts the proceeds to charity which is nice answer to the Q: why am I spending all this money and killing a tree?