

Our partner organization Trees New York certifies residents as volunteer Citizen Tree Pruners who are allowed to prune street tree limbs in accordance with City regulations. Please contact your power utility company as they are under permit from Parks to handle these conditions. If the tree is entangled in electrical wires, our crews cannot prune the tree because of safety concerns around high voltage power lines.

Interference with a traffic signs or signals.

We do not take routine clearance pruning requests, but requests to prune for public safety are accepted via our tree service request system (or call 311) for conditions including: This process allows us to prune a portion of the street trees in each community board every year. Parks prunes established street trees on a neighborhood–by–neighborhood basis.
